Nina Bogdanovich Wolters was born in Los Angeles, California December 18, 1932 to Rosa Zohner and George Bogdanovich. When she was an infant, her family moved to Blue Diamond, Nevada, where she grew up. She has three siblings--Angie B. DeLong, Sophie B. Romans, and George D. Bogdanovich. She married her first husband, Bill G. Jones November 22, 1952. She married her second husband, Donald L. Wolters November 16, 1963. She has four children-- Cynthia L. Jones Hannebaum, Connie E. Jones Jordan, Jon Randall Jones, and Dawn E. Wolters.
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The Sidney R. Whitmore Collection (approximately 1885-1970) contains land deeds and other documents about Mount Diablo, Nevada; documents detailing parts of his family history; and eight framed paintings of landscapes and portraits.
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Raymonde "Ray" Fiol was born August 22, 1936 in Germany. 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 American serviceman Phil Fiol and left Paris in 1957. The couple lived in New York City, New York where she worked in inventory control. Fiol retired to Las Vegas, Nevada around 2003 and became active in the local Holocaust Survivors Group.
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The Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada, known to most simply as The Center, is a nonprofit organization located in Las Vegas, Nevada, that has served the local lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community since 1993. The splendid building and the land on which it sits were accomplished following a very generous bequest by Las Vegas educator and businessman Robert L. Forbuss. The idea and scope of the project was suggested to Forbuss by his two closest friends, Las Vegas physicians Jerry L. Cade and Dennis M. Causey.
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Includes quotations from Ken Hanlon, Jimmy Mulidore, Arno Marsh, Joe Lano, Junior League of Las Vegas Sustainers. Also included are taped interviews given to UNLV Oral History Department and articles for booklet.
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Part of an interview with Doris, Jerry and Marcy Welt on November 30, 2014.
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Parts of an interview with Renee Diamond on November 20, 2014. In these clips, Diamond talks about her involvement with politics from the moment she and her family arrived in Las Vegas in the 1970s.
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