BURR — To get to the tree, you have to drive down a dirt road lined by fields and pastures. You walk a quarter mile through an untouched prairie full of tall big bluestem, switchgrass and indiangrass, not yet fully green this early into spring. You crouch under barbed wire fences, step over small trickles of water and patches of mud. 

The massive bur oak’s gnarled, furrowed branches stretch high into the clear blue sky, towering over the grove of sycamores Don Antholz planted here 25 years ago. Even without leaves, its canopy is thick enough to make a stretch of shade. 

Jaclyn Daake looked everywhere. 

The Alma attorney’s new client, a western Nebraska man living with a developmental disability, needed a guardian, someone to manage his life and finances. His guardian for the past two years, a York County woman who served in the court-appointed role for dozens of vulnerable Nebraskans, had just been charged with stealing from one of her clients. Law enforcement was looking for other victims.

In 2025, 48% of Americans ages 18-29 could not name a single concentration or death camp, according to a survey by the nonprofit Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which works to secure compensation and restitution for Holocaust survivors.

Another 53% of surveyed Americans said that they had encountered Holocaust “denial or distortion while on social media.”