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Gilbert Yarchever and Edythe Katz Yarchever oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02040

Abstract

Oral history interview with Gilbert and Edythe Katz Yarchever conducted on February 13, 2006 by Michael Geeser for the I Remember When: Recollections from Jewish Las Vegas Leaders Oral History Project sponsored by the Congregation Ner Tamid and the Las Vegas, Nevada Centennial Committee. In this interview, the Yarchevers talk about their roles in World War II and their involvement in the early history of Jewish temples in Las Vegas, Nevada. Edythe discusses her first husband's work on desegregation and her efforts in Holocaust education.

Archival Collection

Biographical essay about Magda Nissanov, 2014

Date

2014

Description

Magda Nissanov and her family were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau from Hungary in 1944. She and her sister were later sent to a work camp in Bavaria, and eventually Dachau, where they were liberated in 1945/

Text

Video, Generations of the Shoah interview with William ""Willie"" Lebovic, by Esther Finder, 2013

Date

2013

Description

Interview with Willie Lebovic by Esther Finder. Lebovic was a soldier in the Hungarian Army, but was sent into a forced labor camp, which he managed to escape. He discusses his life after World War II in the Czech Republic, and his decision to leave Europe. This video also includes footage of Lydia Lebovic discussing photographs and other memories.

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Jewish Federation correspondence, meeting minutes, and other records, item 26

Description

Jewish Federation of Las Vegas Board of Directors meeting minutes, December 14, 1988.

Ann-Marja Lander oral history interview

Identifier

OH-03908

Abstract

Oral history interview with Ann-Marja Lander conducted by Claytee D. White on August 14, 2023 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. In this interview, Lander tells the history of her family living in Europe, getting visas for the United States in 1953, and migratng to Seattle. The family then moved to Souther California, and Lander worked in a department store in high school and joined B'nai B'rith as she began to feel closer to her Jewish heritage. After college, Lander recalls following family moving to Las Vegas, Nevada and joined the Westside Newcomers Club and worked as a certified financial planner. Lander discusses being a member of the Second Generation organization, which is composed of children of Holocaust survivors.

Archival Collection