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City of North Las Vegas "Days of Remembrance" Proclamation, educational display board with stories from Holocaust survivors, and photographs of Holocaust Remembrance Day and various unidentified events, approximately 1990 to 2014
Collection Name: Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center Records
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 12
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Correspondence, educational resources and handouts, conference programs; volumes of "Always Remember" Holocaust stories, special edition of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum magazine Memory & Action commemorating Elie Wiesel, 2006 to 2016
Collection Name: Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center Records
Box/Folder: Box SH-051
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Holocaust Education and Curriculum correspondence; articles about the Holocaust; Clark County School District Professional Development Education program materials relating to Holocaust education conference including the topics: "One Survivor Remembers," "Art of the Holocaust," and "Rescue and Resistance,"; proclamation and correspondence about the Holocaust Remembrance Week in Nevada, 1984 to 2015
Collection Name: Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center Records
Box/Folder: Box 07
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Robinson, Lyn, 1978-
Lyn Robinson was born January 16, 1978 in Florida. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1999 and became a student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). She was an art major with a concentration on photography. Robinson also had a deep appreciation of the horror of the Holocaust and what the survivors she would take photos of had endured. This began a two year project, during which she took photos of over sixty survivors. Robinson’s images were displayed at the Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center.
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Robinson, Lyn, 1978-
Lyn Robinson was born January 16, 1978 in Florida. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1999 and became a student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). She was an art major with a concentration on photography. Robinson also had a deep appreciation of the horror of the Holocaust and what the survivors she would take photos of had endured. This began a two year project, during which she took photos of over sixty survivors. Robinson’s images were displayed at the Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center.
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Governor's Advisory Council (GAC) correspondence, event planning documents, newspaper clippings, and administrative records, 1979 to 2018
Collection Name: Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center Records
Box/Folder: Box 15, Box 16, Box 17, Box 18, Box 19, Box 20, Box 21, Box 22, Box 23, Box 24
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Berkovits, Myra, 1944-
Myra Berkovits (née Mosse) was born April 10, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois. Her father emigrated from Romania to Canada, later moving to Chicago, where he met Berkovits’s mother, a daughter of Russian immigrants. After graduating from Loyola University, Berkovits married and started her career as an educator teaching at an elementary school in inner city Chicago. She taught there for twelve years before moving with her husband, son and daughter to Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Berkovits, Myra, 1944-
Myra Berkovits (née Mosse) was born April 10, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois. Her father emigrated from Romania to Canada, later moving to Chicago, where he met Berkovits’s mother, a daughter of Russian immigrants. After graduating from Loyola University, Berkovits married and started her career as an educator teaching at an elementary school in inner city Chicago. She taught there for twelve years before moving with her husband, son and daughter to Las Vegas, Nevada.
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