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Compositions by Raymonde Fiol, 2012

Date

2012

Description

Biography, essay and poem written and compiled by Raymonde Fiol, titled Pieces of My Life.

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Holocaust survivors

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Photograph of Raymonde and Phil Fiol, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 17, 2016

Date

2016-05-17

Description

Phil Fiol and his wife Raymonde "Ray" Fiol at their Summerlin neighborhood home. A Jewish Holocaust survivor whose parents were killed in Auschwitz, Raymonde was hidden by a Christian family of resistance fighters during her childhood in Nazi-occupied Paris, France.

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Biographical essay by Rachel Taylor, 2014

Date

2014

Description

Rachel Taylor describes her family's experience during the Holocaust in Poland in the Kutno and Gubin ghettos. She was able to escape with her sisters and brother with the help of a Polish priest and nun, and her parents survived Auschwitz-Birkenau. Taylor came to the United Staes in 1961.

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Henry Kronberg oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02280

Abstract

Oral history interview with Henry Kronberg conducted by Barbara Tabach on February 26, 2015 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. In this interview Kronberg talks about his childhood in Germany and Poland, his experience being imprisoned by the Gestapo, and being transported to a concentration camp. He talks about surviving the Holocaust and meeting his wife. He discusses being reunited with his sister in Las Vegas, Nevada after decades of searching. Kronberg discusses purchasing Stoney's, a loan and pawn shop, anti-Semitism, and water resources in Southern Nevada.

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Photograph of Raymonde and Phil Fiol, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 17, 2016

Date

2016-05-17

Description

Phil Fiol shares a kiss with his wife Raymonde "Ray" Fiol as they show of photos of their younger selves at their Summerlin neighborhood home. A Jewish Holocaust survivor whose parents were killed in Auschwitz, Raymonde was hidden by a Christian family of resistance fighters during her childhood in Nazi-occupied Paris, France.

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