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Video, Passing the Torch, 2012
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Archival Collection
Description
Compilation of interviews with Holocaust survivors and family members of survivors. The film was created by film students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, with advisor Brett Levner.
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Images from Frieda Rosenthal, 2014
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Archival Collection
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A group of images illustrates the early life of Frieda Rosenthal.
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Video, Holocaust Survivors of Southern Nevada reflections, 2013
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Archival Collection
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Compilation of interviews with survivors of the Holocaust reflecting on loss, liberation, rebuilding, how the Holocaust has impacted their lives, and the American Dream. The interviews are also available through the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) online catalog: http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn608188
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Nasser, Stephen, 1931-
Author, speaker, and Holocaust survivor Stephen Nasser was born in 1931 in Hungary. As a child he was known as Pista, which translates to Stephen in English. He and his family were forced into a ghetto in 1943. They were transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau shortly after, where Nasser witnessed the murder of several relatives. He was liberated from a death train on April 30, 1945 by General Patton’s Third Army.
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Biographical essay about Ben Lesser, 2014
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Archival Collection
Description
Bejamin Lesser escaped Poland to temporary safety in Hungary in 1943. He was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and other concentration camps. He survived and was liberated from Dachau in 1945.
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Biographical essay by Sasha Semenoff, 2014
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Archival Collection
Description
Sasha Semenoff survived several internment camps during the Holocaust, and ultimately recovered and became an entertainer in Las Vegas.
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Biographical essay about Meta Doran, 2014
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Archival Collection
Description
Meta Doran's family was deported from Germany to Poland in 1938. She was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in 1944, where her mother perished.
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Biographical essay about Henry Kronberg, 2014
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Archival Collection
Description
Henry Kronberg was nineteen when the Nazis invaded Poland. He was sent to several labor camps, and liberated in 1945.
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Biographical essay about Janos Strauss, 2014
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Archival Collection
Description
Janos Strauss was picked up by the Nazis at age 15, but lied and said he was 17, which saved his life. He was liberated during a transport in 1945.
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Biographical essay about Joseph Frank, 2014
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Archival Collection
Description
Joe Frank's family lived in Germany during Kristallnacht, and was able to escape to England in 1939. They came to the United States in 1940.
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