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Audio clip from interview with Steven and Wendy Hart, October 23, 2014
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Archival Collection
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Steven and Wendy Hart discuss an instance in which Sylvia Hart and Pearl Bailey defied segregation in the Flamingo hotel and casino in Las Vegas.
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Wilner Family Collection
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The Wilner Family Collection is comprised of audiovisual material on real estate in Las Vegas, Nevada collected by Las Vegas real estate agent, Linda C. Wilner. The collection includes informational videos for real estate agents and promotional showcase materials on various real estate developments around Las Vegas including Summerlin, Lake Las Vegas, Turnberry Place, Park Towers, Sun City Anthem, Sun City MacDonald Ranch, and Christopher Homes. This collection also contains a digital surrogate of a scrapbook commemorating Linda Wilner's uncle, Leo Wilner, and his retirement as executive director of Temple Beth Sholom in 1984.
Archival Collection
Stephen Nasser Papers
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The Stephen Nasser Papers (1992-2018) mainly contain letters written from school children to Nasser who travels to schools, churches, and organizations around Las Vegas, Nevada to share his story of surviving the Holocaust during World War II. Materials in this collection document his captivity in various prison camps and includes photographs, awards, and newspaper clippings. Also included are speeches given by Nasser and book reviews and a teacher's guide of his book My Brother's Voice written by students of Dixie College, St. George, Utah. This collection includes a copy of
Archival Collection
Rita Deanin Abbey Exhibition Catalogs
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The Rita Deanin Abbey Exhibition Catalogs (1975-1991) are comprised primarily of exhibition catalogs featuring Abbey's art at various museums and international exhibitions including the Palm Springs Desert Museum, the University of New Mexico Art Museum, Biennale Internationale d’Email Laval, and the International Exhibition of Enamelling Art in Japan. The collection also contains invitations to Abbey's art shows at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as well as a copy of Abbey's curriculum vitae. Also included are select issues of
Archival Collection
Biographical essay by Simone Salen, 2014
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Archival Collection
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Simone Salen's parents survived the Holocaust, and she describes her life as a miracle. She was reunited with her father's diary, which he kept during the Holocaust, and translated it into English.
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Schedule for the "Teaching the Lessons of the Holocaust" conference, April 6, 1994
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Archival Collection
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Schedule for the 1994 Conference: "Teaching the Lessons of the Holocaust" with a sticky note to speak with parking attendant.
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Audio clip from interview with Irwin Molasky, April 23, 2014
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Archival Collection
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Part of an interview with Irwin Molasky, April 23, 2014. In this clip, Molasky describes constructing his first property in Las Vegas: a motel called the Pyramids on the Las Vegas Strip. He then talks about the sanitation district as the reason that the city could not annex the county into its borders, and the related issues of a growing city.
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Audio clip from interview with Mimi Katz, December 10, 2014
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Archival Collection
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Part of an interview with Mimi Katz on December 10, 2014. In this clip, Katz talks about living in Las Vegas, and tells an anecdote about her mother traveling with kosher meat when she came to visit.
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Audio clip from interview with Greg Goussak on May 19, 2015
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Archival Collection
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In this clip, Greg Goussak describes his family's involvement with the Albert Einstein Hebrew Day School where his mother was the director in the 1970s.
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