Texas Tech University

The Texas Liberator: Witness to the Holocaust

August 2017 – January 2018

With the generous support of the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission, Texas Tech University have constructed an educational digital tool that introduces Texas high school students to the story of the Holocaust. The project honors the heroism of our Texas soldiers who fought in WWII and continues the important work of remembering this incredibly dark time in history. It includes not only the making of an app, but also a web resource page, the publication of a display quality book by Texas Tech University Press, and an exhibit that features all aspects of the work but will truly spotlight the stories of 21 of these Texas Veteran Liberators.

Robert AndersonRobert Anderson. Born 1924. 105th Signal Company. 10th Armored Division. 1st Army, Meitingen Work Camp. Years of Service: 1943 – 1945

The Texas Liberator exhibit provides a context for the Second World War, a history of the Holocaust and the Liberation, and offers an interactive experience of walking between 21 free-standing panels, each honoring a Texas Liberator featured in this project. The exhibit also features an Honor Roll—a wall with the names of over 300 Liberators the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission have recovered in their efforts to record and educate a wider public on the history of holocaust and genocide in the past and the present.