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Raymonde Fiol oral history interview
Oral history interview with Raymonde Fiol conducted by Barbara Tabach on August 12, 2015 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Fiol discusses surviving the Holocaust and moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 2001. She also discusses her time serving as president of the Holocaust Survivors local organization since 2010, and making improvements on Holocaust education in local schools.
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Biographical essay by Tamas Foldes, 2014
Essays by Tamas Foldes describe a series of events he and his family endured and survived the Holocaust.
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Generations of the Shoah - Nevada Records
The Generations of the Shoah - Nevada (GS-N) records (approximately 2001-2020) are mainly comprised of meeting notes, correspondence, fliers, event programs, speeches, planning documents, scrapbooks, exhibit panels, and educational materials created by GS-N president Esther Finder and collaborators in the Las Vegas, Nevada Jewish community and the international Holocaust education and remembrance community. The collection also includes personal stories of Holocaust survivors and their families, which are recorded in virtual books, publications, videotaped interviews, and Las Vegas, Nevada filmmaker Brett Levner's videos:
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Biographical essay about Janos Strauss, 2014
Janos Strauss was picked up by the Nazis at age 15, but lied and said he was 17, which saved his life. He was liberated during a transport in 1945.
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Biographical essay by Tom Figueras, 2014
Essays by Tom Figueras give details about his brother, Ladizlav or "Laci," who was a prodigy violin player in Germany during the Holocaust, and eventually ended up in a sub-camp of Buchenwald and then in Bergen-Belsen where he perished. Figueras survived the Holocaust, but his parents did not. He came to the United States in 1960 and became a marketing manager for a telecommunications company.
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Video, Mark Weitzman presentatation at Generations of the Shoah conference, 2014
Mark Weitzman discusses the actions to be taken to continue the mission of the Generations of the Shoah organization with Holocaust remembrance and education, and defeating anti-Semitism.
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Audio clips from interview with Maurice "Maury" Halfon Behar, March 14, 2016
In clip 1, Maury Behar discusses how he survived the Holocaust. In clip 2, he discusses how he came to live in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Biographical essay by Sabina Callwood, 2014
Essays describe Sabina Callwood's experience during the Holocaust and being separated from her family.
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Biographical essay by Margot Goodman, 2014
Essays describe the early life of Margot Goodman, whose father was killed in the Holocaust. She surivived in hiding and came to the United States in 1941, and was reunited with her mother.
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Photograph of Henry Kronberg, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 10, 2016
Holocaust survivor and longtime Las Vegas businessman Henry Kronberg photographed at his Summerlin neighborhood home.
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