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"Nazism, Racism Revisited": article draft by Roosevelt Fitzgerald

Date
1988 (year approximate)
Description

From the Roosevelt Fitzgerald Professional Papers (MS-01082) -- Drafts for the Las Vegas Sentinel Voice file. On the Imperial Palace Hotel & Casino Nazi war room collection.

Text

Sasha Semenoff oral history interview

Identifier
OH-02609
Abstract

Oral history interview with Sasha Semenoff conducted by Claytee D. White on April 29, 2009 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. Semenoff begins the interview by discussing his early life in Latvia and learning to play the violin as a child before the Nazi invasion. He describes being a Jewish Holocaust survivor, surviving the ghettos and concentration camp where he was held, and explaining how he immigrated to the United States after he was liberated. Semenoff then discusses moving to New York City, New York, where he joined the musician's union before moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1959. He details his career as a prominent lounge and big band violinist in Las Vegas, where he played at several different casinos, including the Desert Inn Lounge, the Dunes Hotel and Casino, and the MGM Grand Hotel. Semenoff also talks about the musicians he has played with, such as Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, his work at the time of the interview, and the presence of organized crime in Las Vegas.

Archival Collection

Digital images from trip to Israel, 2007

Date
2007
Description

Group of photographs of a trip to Israel.

Image

Ben Rosenfeld photographs and ephemera, approximately 1943 to 1989

Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project Community Collection
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Collection Number: MS-00790
Collection Name: Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project Community Collection
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component

Photographs of Las Vegas Senior Lifeline Senior Prom at Caesars Palace, April 22, 2006

Date
2006-04-22
Description

Photographs of the Senior Lifeline Senior Prom.

Image

Levy, Andrew S.

Andrew "Drew" Levy was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, where his family became prominent civic and real estate leaders. His grandfather was Harry Levy, a former Las Vegas City Commissioner, and his father Alvin Levy was a former councilman. Drew is always proud to say that he never left Las Vegas and of partnering with his father in the Levy Realty Company.

Person

Levy, Debbie, 1958-

Taken from bio on JHP: "Debbie Levy was born November 7th, 1958 in Richmond, KY. She spent her childhood in Pontiac, Michigan up until highschool when he parents moved the family to Tempe, Arizona, where she would later meet her husband, Andrew Levy. After they were married Debbie arrived in Las Vegas in 1978, where she enrolled at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she finished her degree and started her accounting practice. She ran her business for ten years before opening Art Starts Here, an art school.

Person