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Sporn, Karin
Karin Sporn is the founder of Glaxo Pharma and was chairwoman of the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas Women’s Philanthropy council from 2012-2014. She is a 2016 award winner from the International Lion of Judah Conference for her work with the Jewish community. While chairwoman of the Jewish Federation she took a trip to the Ukraine and saw firsthand how the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Agency for Israel work to help members of the Jewish community.
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Newspaper clippings about Hadassah events and parties, March 1966
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Gadabout all around the town, Hadassah speaker announcement, Las Vegas Sun, March 18, 1966; Hadassah meeting announcement, March 21, 1966; World Jewish Child's Day, Las Vegas Sun, March 20, 1966; Hadassah card party, Las Vegas Israelite, March 11, 1966
Photograph of Raymonde Fiol, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 17, 2016
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2016-05-17
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Raymonde "Ray" Fiol at her Summerlin neighborhood home. A Jewish Holocaust survivor whose parents were killed in Auschwitz, Fiol was hidden by a Christian family of resistance fighters during her childhood in Nazi-occupied Paris, France. She married an American service member, Phil Fiol, in 1957. Upon retirement, the couple moved to Las Vegas around 2003 and Raymonde became active in the local Holocaust Survivors Group.
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