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Photograph of Holocaust Resource Center artifact display, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 31, 2016
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Archival Collection
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Artifacts on display at the Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center of Las Vegas.
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Photograph of Holocaust Resource Center's Myra Berkovits, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 31, 2016
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Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center of Las Vegas education specialist Myra Berkovits.
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Photograph of Holocaust Resource Center's Myra Berkovits, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 31, 2016
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Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center of Las Vegas education specialist Myra Berkovits poses in the center with a portrait of her late husband David.
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Photograph of Holocaust Resource Center librarian Sue Dubin, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 31, 2016
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Archival Collection
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Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center of Las Vegas librarian Sue Dubin works at the center.
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Handwritten to-do list from Holocaust Resource Center, 1980s - 1990s
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Handwritten to-do list outlining people to contact and facilities to rent from the Holocaust Rescource Center.
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Transcript of roundtable interview with the Holocaust Resource Center: Myra Berkovits, Susan Dubin and Doug Unger, by Barbara Tabach, September 4, 2014
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Interview with Myra Berkovits, Susan Dubin and Doug Unger of the Holocaust Resource Center. In this interview, the group discusses the beginnings of what is now the Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center. Edythe Katz-Yarchever is discussed as the catalyst for establishing the center and getting others involved with the Governor's Advisory Council on Education Relating to the Holocaust. Berkovits talks about her role as a liason for Holocaust education in the Clark County School District and the student-teacher conferences held each year with funding from Sheldon Adelson. Unger discusses expanding the outreach to the Washoe County School District with assistance from Atlantis Hotel (Reno, Nev.) owner, John Farahi and Judy Mack. They talk about the previous locations of the Holocaust Resource Center on Maryland Parkway, then Renaissance Drive, and the affiliation with the Jewish Federation and the Jewish Family Service Agency. After funding and personnel issues around 2011, the advisory council and the library went through a re-structuring and hired Susan Dubin who organized and catalogued the library collection. The library is now accredited by the Association of Jewish Libraries.
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Photograph of Doug Unger, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 07, 2016
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Archival Collection
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Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center chairperson Doug Unger at the center.
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Photograph of Doug Unger, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 07, 2016
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Archival Collection
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Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center chairperson Doug Unger at the center.
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Photograph of Doug Unger, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 07, 2016
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Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center chairperson Doug Unger at the center.
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Transcript of interview with Myra Berkovits by Barbara Tabach, August 21, 2014
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Interview with Myra Berkovits by Barbara Tabach on August 21, 2014. In this interview, Berkovits talks about growing up and starting her teaching career in Chicago. When she moves to Las Vegas, Berkovits eventually purchases a dining concierge business, but returned to teaching, and is now involved with the Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center.
Myra Berkovits was born Myra Mosse in 1944 in Chicago, Illinois. She became an elementary school teacher in Chicago before moving to Las Vegas in 1980. Myra has made contributions to Las Vegas in the public and private sectors. She owned several businesses then returned to teaching, heading to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) to renew her teaching license and later received her master's degree. After a year of teaching in multicultural education, Myra was then in charge of the school district's homeless program, seeing its growth from serving 1,200 to 6,000 students. Myra's other passion was for Holocaust education and she became one of six interviewers in the city for the Shoah Foundation, documenting survivors' stories. One interviewee, David Berkovits, would later become her husband of fifteen years. Myra's own Holocaust education was aided by powerful trips to Israel and Poland. She used these experiences to develop and lead student-teacher conferences and classroom curriculum for the whole state. Myra still serves at the Education Specialist at the Holocaust Resource Center.
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