Short Takes: Jewish Federation of Omaha donates special collection to UNO library
With an estimated 36,500 volumes, the Kripke-Veret Collection is the largest donation of books ever to be received by UNO Libraries’ Archives and Special Collections.
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With an estimated 36,500 volumes, the Kripke-Veret Collection is the largest donation of books ever to be received by UNO Libraries’ Archives and Special Collections.
Interview With Executive Director of the Samuel Bak Museum: The Learning Center Hillary Nather-Detisch
Revisit a conversation on preserving Jewish history and maintaining Jewish community in the state.
On February 23, 1944, a 15-year-old girl gazed from an attic window at the topmost branches of a tree. The tree had become a sort of friend to her, a reminder of life beyond the small space to which she was confined and one of the few things she could see from the only window that was not blacked out. In her diary that day, she wrote, “I look up at the blue sky and the bare chestnut tree, on whose branches little raindrops shine, appearing like silver, and at the seagulls and other birds as they glide on the wind. As long as this exists…and I may live to see it, this sunshine, these cloudl...