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Biographical essay about Stephen Nasser, 2014

Date

2014

Description

Stephen Nasser's family was forced into a ghetto in Hungary, and then sent to an internment camp in 1944. He was liberated from Muhldorf in 1945.

Text

Unger, Doug, 1950-

1976 arrived in Las Vegas; bought Supreme Mattress Co.; 1999 Jewish Federation president; 2012 becomes active with Holocaust Resource Center

Person

Video, Generations of the Shoah interview with William ""Willie"" Lebovic, by Esther Finder, 2013

Date

2013

Description

Interview with Willie Lebovic by Esther Finder. Lebovic was a soldier in the Hungarian Army, but was sent into a forced labor camp, which he managed to escape. He discusses his life after World War II in the Czech Republic, and his decision to leave Europe. This video also includes footage of Lydia Lebovic discussing photographs and other memories.

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Jewish Federation correspondence, meeting minutes, and other records, item 26

Description

Jewish Federation of Las Vegas Board of Directors meeting minutes, December 14, 1988.

Biographical essay about Magda Nissanov, 2014

Date

2014

Description

Magda Nissanov and her family were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau from Hungary in 1944. She and her sister were later sent to a work camp in Bavaria, and eventually Dachau, where they were liberated in 1945/

Text

Fiol, Raymonde, 1936-

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.

Person

Photograph of Elie Wiesel, Dorothy Eisenberg and Edythe Katz, 1980s

Date

1980 to 1989

Archival Collection

Description

Color photograph of Elie Wiesel, Dorothy Eisenberg and Edythe Katz.

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