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Audio clip from interview with Arne Rosencrantz by Barbara Tabach, February 18, 2015

Date

2015-02-18

Description

Part of an interview with Arne Rosencrantz on February 18, 2015. In this clip, Rosencrantz discusses his family heritage, childhood, and living in Las Vegas.

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Audio clip from interview with Glenn Tredwell, March 4, 2016 and April 14, 2016

Date

2016-03-04
2016-04-14

Description

In this clip, Glenn Tredwell discusses how he came to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1975.

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Biographical essay by Claude Black, 2014

Date

2014

Description

Claude Black describes his family's escape from Germany to Santiago, Chile, and eventually settling in Chicago, Illinois. The essay is illustrated with images of his family and documents from their journey.

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Biographical essay by Eva Peters, 2014

Date

2014

Description

Peters' essay describes her family's journey to escape the Nazis and Communism, remaining in Hungary until 1956. She and her husband were part of the Hungarian Freedom Fighters group, and escaped to Vienna, and then to the U.S.

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Biographical essay by Miriam Zaidman Borowsky, 2014

Date

2014

Description

Miriam Ziadman Borowsky's family moved from Palenstine to France in 1938, where her father surrendered to the Nazis and was sent to the Drancy internment camp. She recounts the rift in her family after she realized her father was not returning. Her essay includes photographs of her family and documents related to her father's military career.

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Audio clip from interview with Jerry Fox, November 12, 2014

Date

2014-11-12

Archival Collection

Description

Part of an interview with Jerry Fox on November 12, 2014. In this clip, Fox talks about arriving in Las Vegas in 1955, and how his father came to own a delicatessen on the Las Vegas strip.

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Member directory for Congregation Ner Tamid, 1990s

Date

1990 to 1999

Archival Collection

Description

The membership directory for Congregation Ner Tamid includes photographs of members and ongoing programs of the temple.

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Audio clip from interview with Bobby Morris, March 26, 2016

Date

2016-03-26

Description

In this audio clip Bobby Morris discusses how he came to Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Biographical essay by Judy Newman, 2014

Date

2014

Description

Judy Newman describes her early life in an orphanage in Poland, and went to Israel in the 1950s, where she met her husband.

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Biographical essay by Lucy Gliuck Jacobs, 2014

Date

2014

Description

Lucy Gliuck Jacobs describes her time in Auschwitz, where her parents perished. She was the only survivor of her family of seven children.

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