Searching for Humanity: Exhibit opening hosted by the IHE

Over two hundred community members, including more than a dozen survivors and concentration camp liberators, attended a private opening of Searching for Humanity: Veterans, Victims and Survivors of World War II at the Strategic Air and Space Museum. The evening, hosted by the Institute for Holocaust Education, included tours of the exhibit and reflections from several speakers including Sam Fried, survivor of Auschwitz and Omaha resident; exhibit creator, Matthew Placzek; Roy Long of the 71st Infantry, liberator of Gunskirchenlager, and Dr. Tom Williams, son of Staff Seargant Clarence Williams of the 42nd Rainbow Division whose letters, photographs and additional memorabilia are a central element of the exhibit.

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