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Video, Mark Weitzman presentatation at Generations of the Shoah conference, 2014

Date

2013

Description

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.

Moving Image

Gary Sternberg Papers

Identifier

MS-00717

Abstract

The Gary Sternberg Papers are comprised of correspondence, publications, and videos documenting Sternberg's involvement with the Las Vegas Jewish community from 1983 to 2015. Organizations represented in the collection include Congregation Ner Tamid and the Holocaust Survivors Group of Southern Nevada. Also included are digital photographs of Sternberg in 2015 wearing his Caesars Palace dealer's uniform.

Archival Collection

Lyn Robinson oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02161

Abstract

Oral history interview with Lyn Robinson conducted by Barbara Tabach on September 18, 2014 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Robinson talks about her participation with the Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center as an official photographer of survivors for the Center.

Archival Collection

Photograph of Henry Kronberg, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 10, 2016

Date

2016-05-10

Description

Holocaust survivor and longtime Las Vegas businessman Henry Kronberg photographed at his Summerlin neighborhood home.

Image

Biographical essay by Ruth Stobin, 2014

Date

2014

Description

Ruth Stobin (nee Gottschalk) was able to escape Germany in 1939 with the kindertransport to England, and came to the United States in 1941.

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Transcript of interview with Stephen Nasser by Barbara Tabach, January 17, 2018

Date

2018-01-17

Description

At the age of thirteen, the incredible life journey of Stephen “Pista” Nasser (b. 1931 - ) is preserved in his heart. His ordeal begins when his family are ripped from their home to be interred in a Nazi concentration camp in 1944. Fifty years later, he sits in his Las Vegas home and reflects on his calling to write and speak about his survival and losses. His ordeal is preserved in his book My Brother’s Voice (2013) and in his follow up stage production Not Now Pista. He is also the author of a companion memoir, Journey to Freedom. Stephen and his wife Francoise are tireless in their travels throughout the United States and the world. At the time of this 2018 oral history interview, Stephen had done over 1092 presentations about his harrowing life story to thousands of people of all ages and denominations. Each presentation fills a spot in his heart as he honors his brother and reminds listeners that such devastating episode in history should not be forgotten, and should never occur again. The timing of this interview also coincided with the premiere of a 20-minute documentary based on his writings and the play production. It was shown at the 2018 Las Vegas Jewish Film Festival. Note: the photo above of Stephen and Francoise Nasser was taken shortly after this interview on their next cruise. (2018)

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Transcript of roundtable interview about Kristallnacht with Esther Finder, Raymonde Fiol, Alexander Kuechel, Philipp Meinecke and Rabbi Felipe Goodman, by Barbara Tabach, March 17, 2015

Date

2015-03-17

Description

In this interview, the participants discuss their experiences during Kristallnacht, and the commemoration events in southern Nevada with Holocaust survivors and their families. Mr. Kuechel recounts his journey through concentration camps and being liberated by the Russians. Rabbi Goodman talks about meeting Mr. Meinecke, whose grandfather was a high-ranking SS officer. Meinecke discusses his upbringing in Germany and trying to learn about his family's involvement in the Holocaust, and the hope he felt after the fall of the Berlin Wall as Jews returned to Germany. The group discusses the importance of Holocaust education because there are still so many untold stories.

On November 9th to November 10th, 1938, in an incident known as Kristallnacht, Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses, and killed close to one hundred Jews. In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, also called the Night of Broken Glass, some thirty thousand Jewish men were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. German Jews had been subjected to repressive policies since 1933 when Nazi Party leader Adolph Hitler became chancellor of Germany. However, prior to Kristallnacht these Nazi policies had been primarily nonviolent. However, after Kristallnacht conditions for German Jews grew increasingly worse. During World War II, Hitler and the Nazis implemented their so-called final solution to what they referred to as "the Jewish problem" and carried out the systematic murder of some six million European Jews in what is now commonly known as the Holocaust.

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

Date

2016-05-17

Description

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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Biographical essay by Simone Salen, 2014

Date

2014

Description

Simone Salen's parents survived the Holocaust, and she describes her life as a miracle. She was reunited with her father's diary, which he kept during the Holocaust, and translated it into English.

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Henry and Anita Schuster oral history interview

Identifier

OH-01647

Abstract

Oral history interview with Henry and Anita Schuster conducted by Claytee D. White on various dates from March 01, 2011 to April 25, 2011 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project. Henry discusses his experiences during the Holocaust, including losing his mother and one sister, while reuniting with another sister after she escaped from a concentration camp. Anita discusses growing up with her family in New York, marrying Henry in 1948, and moving around until arriving in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1993. They also discuss their involvement with the Holocaust Survivors Group in southern Nevada.

Archival Collection