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Nasser, Stephen, 1931-
Author, speaker, and Holocaust survivor Stephen Nasser was born in 1931 in Hungary. As a child he was known as Pista, which translates to Stephen in English. He and his family were forced into a ghetto in 1943. They were transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau shortly after, where Nasser witnessed the murder of several relatives. He was liberated from a death train on April 30, 1945 by General Patton’s Third Army.
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Feldman, Alan (1960 January 16-)
Gaming executive and responsible gaming expert Alan Feldman grew up in Los Angeles, California and began working in the field of public relations while attending the University of California, Los Angeles. He first became involved in the gaming industry in 1989 when he came to Las Vegas, Nevada to work on a public relations program for Steve Wynn’s Mirage Hotel and Casino. Feldman spent over 30 years working as a gaming executive for Mirage Resorts and MGM Resorts International.
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Castroverde, Alex de, 1972-
Alex De Castroverde group up proud of his Cuban ancestry and embraced his parents’ stories of coming to be Americans.
Both parents, Vivian and Waldo De Castroverde, were teenagers as Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba. Waldo actively fought against the Castro regime as a CIA trained paratrooper; during which he was arrested and was imprisoned for two years. Vivian was one of thousands of young Cubans who quietly entered the United States through Operation Peter Pan in the early 1960s.
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Lopez Omaña, Marvelys
Marvelys Lopez-Omaña is a Venezuelan immigrant. Marvelys first arrived in Las Vegas in 1993 as a 17-year-old high school exchange student at Western High School. Her host family, who were Mormons, warmly welcomed the Catholic teenager and became fast friends.
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Sedera, Sanje, 1970-
Born in Sri Lanka [formerly Ceylon] in 1970 into a middle-class family, entrepreneur and Realtor Sanje Sedera speaks of his childhood, his Buddhist home life, and his schooling; of learning English during his two years as a high school exchange student in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia; of returning to Sri Lanka to complete high school, and of arriving in the U.S. in 1992 on a student visa to attend Idaho State University.
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