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Holocaust Education Committee letters and meeting minutes, 1980-1981

Date

1980 to 1981

Description

Letters, meeting minutes, and committee members list from the Holocaust Education Committee.

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Governor's Advisory Council (GAC) correspondence, event planning documents, newspaper clippings, and administrative records, 1979 to 2018

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center Records
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Collection Number: MS-00733
Collection Name: Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center Records
Box/Folder: Box 15, Box 16, Box 17, Box 18, Box 19, Box 20, Box 21, Box 22, Box 23, Box 24

Archival Component

Photographs of the Governor's Conference on "The Universal Implications of the Holocaust," April 23 - 24, 1991

Date

1991-04-23
1991-04-24

Description

Various photographs of the Governor's Conference on "The Universal Implications of the Holocaust."

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Survey from the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, August 1992

Date

1992-08

Description

United States Holocaust Memorial Council survey of organizations that provide resources and services for teaching about the Holocaust, filled out by the Holocaust Education Committee of the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas.

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Robinson, Lyn, 1978-

Lyn Robinson was born January 16, 1978 in Florida. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1999 and became a student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). She was an art major with a concentration on photography. Robinson also had a deep appreciation of the horror of the Holocaust and what the survivors she would take photos of had endured. This began a two year project, during which she took photos of over sixty survivors. Robinson’s images were displayed at the Sperling Kronberg Mack Holocaust Resource Center.

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Transcript of interview with Marcy and Jack Simon by Barbara Tabach, May 16, 2018

Date

2018-05-16

Description

It was 1964 when Jack Simon met Marcy Stiel at a mutual friend’s wedding. Smitten from the beginning, the couple married shortly thereafter. Thus began their loving partnership that has flourished in business, community involvement, and most importantly in raising their two sons, Ron and Steven. The Simon’s can be a modest power couple. However, they are clearly capable of making things happen. When they first married, Jack was a California electrical contractor and homebuilder and Marcy became his business administrator. The Simons through their Electrical Company, Expo-Tech Electrical & Plumbing Services, Inc. won the contract to provide all of the electrical services for the entire 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, encompassing (26) twenty six venues located in California spanning from San Diego to Stanford University. The trajectory of the business was extraordinary, establishing twelve offices nationwide to provide temporary electrical and plumbing services for conventions and special events. Expo-Tech was eventually bought by industry giant GES. Their success was due in large part to Jack’s technical knowledge and Marcy’s administrative and marketing skills. With entrepreneurial zest, and over the period of eleven years, the couple found their way into the ownership of four local casinos in Elko and Wendover Nevada. Marcy was one of the first women in Nevada to hold multiple gaming licenses. In total, she held four Unrestricted Gaming Licenses. The Simons hosted Passover Seders for the Elko Jewish Community during their ownership of the casinos. In 2004, Marcy and Jack sold the four casino operations. Since moving to Nevada in 1994, the couple has made a warm and lasting impression, being generous in their focus for the well-being of the Jewish community. They are among those that actively paved the way for SB26, which outlaws government bodies from conducting business with companies that boycott Israel. They continue to be tireless advocates and philanthropists in Jewish organizations of Las Vegas and Nevada.

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Letter to G. Paul, Editor of the Jewish Chronicle Newspaper from Edythe Katz, Chairman od the Nevada Holocaust Education Committee regarding "Las Vegas choice now," August 8, 1989

Date

1989-08-08

Description

Letter from Edythe Katz of the Nevada Holocaust Education Committee to Jewish Chronicle Newspaper, Ltd.'s editor G. Paul about the article "Las Vegas Choice Now," published June 30, 1989, "questioning the advisability of holding an international conference here in Las Vegas."

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Henry Kronberg oral history interview

Identifier

OH-02280

Abstract

Oral history interview with Henry Kronberg conducted by Barbara Tabach on February 26, 2015 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. In this interview Kronberg talks about his childhood in Germany and Poland, his experience being imprisoned by the Gestapo, and being transported to a concentration camp. He talks about surviving the Holocaust and meeting his wife. He discusses being reunited with his sister in Las Vegas, Nevada after decades of searching. Kronberg discusses purchasing Stoney's, a loan and pawn shop, anti-Semitism, and water resources in Southern Nevada.

Archival Collection