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Photograph of Elie Wiesel, Dorothy Eisenberg and Edythe Katz, 1980s
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Archival Collection
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Color photograph of Elie Wiesel, Dorothy Eisenberg and Edythe Katz.
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Edythe Katz-Yarchever oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Edythe Katz-Yarchever conducted by Claytee White on December 09, 2000, February 11, 2003, March 11, 2003, and December 06, 2005 for the Boyer Early Las Vegas History Project. In the interviews, Katz-Yarchever discusses her life in Las Vegas, Nevada, owning movie theaters with her husband, Lloyd Katz, and the strides they made in civil rights. She talks about her service in Civil Defense and the National Guard, moving to various places, and working in Los Angeles, California. She also discusses becoming involved in the community in various ways with Operation Independence and Holocaust education.
Archival Collection
Weiss, Shirley, 1929-
Shirley is a Holocaust survivor. She was born in Kyvjazd, Czechoslovakia.
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Jewish Federation correspondence, meeting minutes, and other records, item 17
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Community Relations Committee meeting mintues for the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas, Nevada, March 28, 1988.
Klein, Gerda Weissmann, 1924-
Bio taken from Wikipedia: "Gerda Weissmann Klein (born Gerda Weissmann, May 8, 1924, Bielsko, Poland) is a Polish-born American writer and human rights activist. Her autobiographical account of the Holocaust, All but My Life (1957), was adapted for the 1995 short film, One Survivor Remembers, which received an Academy Award and an Emmy Award, and was selected for the National Film Registry. She married Kurt Klein (1920–2002) in 1946.
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Annual Report of the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas, 2013
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Archival Collection
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Annual report from the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas for 2013.
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Berkovits, Myra, 1944-
Myra Berkovits (née Mosse) was born April 10, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois. Her father emigrated from Romania to Canada, later moving to Chicago, where he met Berkovits’s mother, a daughter of Russian immigrants. After graduating from Loyola University, Berkovits married and started her career as an educator teaching at an elementary school in inner city Chicago. She taught there for twelve years before moving with her husband, son and daughter to Las Vegas, Nevada.
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