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Janos Strauss was picked up by the Nazis at age 15, but lied and said he was 17, which saved his life. He was liberated during a transport in 1945.
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New Life Members, Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 31, 1972
Hadassah Southern Nevada Professional Women's Council schedules April luncheon, publication and date unknown; Hadassah Hosts Annual Fundraising Luncheon, Las Vegas Israelite, date unknown
Meta Doran's family was deported from Germany to Poland in 1938. She was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in 1944, where her mother perished.
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