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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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Transcript of interview with Jim Marsh by Claytee D. White, June 5, 2012

Date

2012-06-05

Archival Collection

Description

Jim Marsh in Denver, Colorado. Father was the chief for the Colorado Patrol. Mother lived in Nebraska. Jim split time in both places while growing up. He was a service member of the Army and once getting out of the service he started his work with his father at a Ford dealership. Jim went on to work and own dealership in several different areas, Colorado, California, New Mexico, and Washington states before arriving in Las Vegas, NV in 1971. Once arriving in Las Vegas Marsh purchased a dealership called American Auto Mart. Around 1976 Jim Marsh bought the Santa Fe Saloon along with the twenty lots surrounding it for 12,500. This was his first experience in the gaming industry Marsh was the only dealership in the world for 25 years to have a gaming license in a new-car dealership. Marsh discovered interest in Belmont when there was a lone resident Rose Walter. The two bartered and Jim gained land in Belmont and went on to build a bar and church for the town. Marsh eventually went on to own the Skyline Casino. Jim Marsh founded the Nevada Auto Auction in 1987 on Las Vegas Boulevard South Eventually sold it and used the investment to build the Longstreet Casino. Marsh was' also a member of business organizations, Better Business Bureau and The Red Cross Marsh has been a member of the Salvation Army Advisory Board for at least 25 years. Tonopah is another location that Marsh has invested in. After leasing the gaming at the Mizpah Hotel to later buying the Valley Bank building and moving the gaming from Mizpah. It is still successful today. He also purchased the Tonopah Station House which is a hotel bar, and restaurant; along with owning the grocery store Scolari's next-door. Tonopah has proved to be a very good investment for Jim Marsh.

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American Association of the United Nations (AAUN) Chapter meeting: photographic print

Date

1950 to 1964

Description

Leaders of the local American Association of the United Nations (AAUN) Chapter meet to finalize plans for the forthcoming U.N. week. L-R: Dorothy Dorthy, chairman of AAUN week actives and regional v-p of So. Nev. AAUN; Helen Shepp, local treasurer; Barbara Roberts, chairman of AAUN week Activities in North Las Vegas. The man is George Fleigh, president of the local AAUN club.

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Norman Ready Chapter of Navy Mothers Club: photographic print

Date

1961-06-30

Description

New officers of the Norman Ready Chapter of Navy Mothers Club (6-25-56) L-R: (seated) Mrs. Irby Hobbs, Mrs. Elmer Laub, Helen Shepp, Ann Kennedy. (standing) Mrs. Floyd Bishop, Mrs. Jessie Evans, Mrs. C. Van Patten, Evelyn Hartwell, Mrs. Wm. Bernard, Aileen Conger.

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Helen Shepp and three unidentified women: photographic print

Date

1950 to 1964

Description

Helen M. Shepp, second from left. Others not identified.

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Helen Shepp and four unidentified women: photographic print

Date

1950 to 1964

Description

Helen M. Shepp, far right. Others not identified.

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Ray Shaffer and Helen Shepp: photographic print

Date

1950 to 1964

Description

L-R: Ray Shaffer, Helen M.Shepp. The two stand with a goat in an unnamed zoo.

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Ray Shaffer, Margaret Fazio and two unidentified individuals: photographic print

Date

1950 to 1964

Description

Companions feed an animal (a young kangaroo/joey?) at the zoo. Identified from left to right: (1) Ray Shaffer; (2)? ; (3) ? ; Margaret Fazio

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Helen Shepp, Billie Wallace, and Mayor C.D. Baker with others: photographic print

Date

1950 to 1964

Description

L-R: (1); (2) Helen Shepp (3) Mayor C.D. Baker (4) Billie Wallace. (5) ?

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Helen Shepp at Christmas party: photographic print

Date

unspecified year in XXXX-12-25

Description

Christmas party. Helen Shepp, far right. Art Olsen next to her. Others are unidentified.

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