Skip to main content

Search the Special Collections and Archives Portal

Search Results

Display    Results Per Page
Displaying results 851 - 860 of 3886

Transcript of interview with Raya Meron by Claytee White, July 14, 2014

Date

2014-07-14

Archival Collection

Description

Raya was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel on July 8, 1935 to Edith and Gerhard Munzner. Her Mother was the daughter of Elsa and David Flachs from Berlin, Germany and her father was the son of Rachel and Zvi Munzner from Mannheim, Germany. Raya's father was jailed in 1931 as a 23 year old attorney, for being "out of the ordinary intelligent, and, therefore, highly dangerous," he was accused of being a communist because he defended social welfare cases. On the day of his release, he fled Germany, crossing the border overnight into Czechoslovakia and onward to Paris to reunite with his then fiancee (Raya's mother) and await immigration papers to the then Palestine, today's Israel. Raya's parents married upon their arrival in Jerusalem and settled in Tel Aviv in 1933. Raya's father obtained his doctorate in Economics and Law at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Upon arrival in Israel, he got a job counting the out-of-circulation money in the basement of "Bank Yaffet" in Tel Aviv an

Text

Scrapbook, Folies Bergere, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1964-1969

Date

1964 to 1969

Archival Collection

Description

Scrapbook of photographs, newspaper clippings, and programs related to Folies Bergere in Las Vegas.
Show Name: Les Folies Bergere (Tropicana Hotel: Las Vegas, Nevada)
Site Name: Tropicana Hotel and Casino (Las Vegas, Nev.)

Image