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Compilation of writings from the Holocaust Survivors' Group, circa 1998

Date

1988

Archival Collection

Description

Bound compilation of four issues of the Holocaust Survivors' Group essays and poems.

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Survivors' Chronicle, published by the Holocaust Survivors Group of Southern Nevada, 1998-2001

Date

1998 to 2001

Description

The Survivors' Chronicle includes first-person accounts of Holocaust survivors and other prose and poetry. The publication was compiled by the Holocaust Survivors Group of Southern Nevada, a program of the Jewish Community Center.

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Board of directors and officers meeting minutes and records for the Holocaust Survivors Group of Southern Nevada, 2000-2007

Date

2000 to 2007

Description

The meeting minutes and other correspondence of the Holocaust Survivors Group of Southern Nevada document the beginnings of the group.

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Programs and meeting minutes from the Holocaust Survivors' Group and Yom Hashoah events, 2003-2011

Date

2003 to 2011

Archival Collection

Description

This group of documents from the Holocaust Survivors' Group of Southern Nevada includes meeting minutes, programs from Yom Hashoah events, and Holocaust Education Conference.

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Video, Holocaust Survivors Group of Southern Nevada Hanukkah Celebration at the Venetian Hotel, December 9, 2012

Date

2012-12-09

Archival Collection

Description

The video documents the Hannukah gathering at the Venetian organized by the Holocaust Survivors Group of Southern Nevada. The program includes speeches and entertainment.

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Correspondence from Henry and Anita Schuster regarding Holocaust Survivors' Group of Southern Nevada, 2003-2011

Date

2003 to 2011

Archival Collection

Description

Group of letters about the activities and concerns of the Holocaust Survivors' Group of Southern Nevada.

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Transcript of interview with Raymonde Fiol by Barbara Tabach, August 12, 2015

Date

2015-08-12

Description

In this interview, Fiol discusses her experience as a a hidden child in the Holocaust and her family's history. She also talks about her involvement with the Las Vegas Holocaust survivors group.

Raymonde "Ray" Fiol is president of the Holocaust Survivors Group of Southern Nevada. 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 where she worked in inventory control. She retired to Las Vegas, Nevada around 2003 and became active in the local Holocaust Survivors Group. In 2007, she became president of the organization, which provides essential services to Holocaust survivors and helps them share their stories. Fiol is also a member of the Nevada Governor?s Advisory Council on Education Relating to the Holocaust and the coordinating council of Shoah International. Her dedication to preserving the memory of the Holocaust and caring for survivors earned her the Nevada Senior Citizen of the Year award from the Nevada Delegation of the National Silver Haired Congress and the Aging Services Directors Organization in 2014, and in 2013 she was named Mensch Volunteer of the Year by the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas. In this interview, Ray reflects upon her traumatic childhood experiences, and shares how she learned details of her family?s history from a woman in France who had researched the destiny of the local Jewish community. She also discusses her involvement with the survivors group, and the positive impacts of its outreach activities, as well as goals to ensure future generations learn about, and from, the Holocaust.

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Biographical essay about Raymonde Fiol, 2014

Date

2014

Description

Ray Fiol is the daughter of Holocaust victims who died at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Fiol was smuggled out a labor camp and protected by a French family during the war.

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Photograph of Raymonde Fiol, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 17, 2016

Date

2016-05-17

Description

Raymonde "Ray" Fiol at her Summerlin neighborhood home. 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 an American service member, Phil Fiol, in 1957. Upon retirement, the couple moved to Las Vegas around 2003 and Raymonde became active in the local Holocaust Survivors Group.

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Holocaust survivor stories and compositions, 1972 and 1999-2014

Date

1972
1999-20-14

Description

Group of essays and other writings by and about several Holocaust survivors who escaped persecution in Europe.

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