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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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Postcard of Hoover Dam, circa 1936-1955
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Archival Collection
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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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Foundation for the Hoover powerplant: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Biographical essay about Ben Lesser, 2014
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Archival Collection
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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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