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Video, Generations of the Shoah interview with Alexander Kuechel, by Esther Finder, 2013
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Archival Collection
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Interview with Alexander Kuechel by Esther Finder. Kuechel discusses the fate of his family at the hands of the Nazis and his journey through concentration camps in Europe. He was librated at age 21 and eventually came to the United States.
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Biographical essay about Stephen Nasser, 2014
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Archival Collection
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Stephen Nasser's family was forced into a ghetto in Hungary, and then sent to an internment camp in 1944. He was liberated from Muhldorf in 1945.
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Video, Generations of the Shoah interview with William ""Willie"" Lebovic, by Esther Finder, 2013
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Archival Collection
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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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Biographical essay about Magda Nissanov, 2014
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Archival Collection
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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/
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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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Transcript of interview with Lori Chenin-Frankl by Barbara Tabach, June 7, 2016
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Archival Collection
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Lori provides a wonderful narrative of her Judaism, her love of teaching children and her devotion to family and music. She talks about growing up in Las Vegas and becoming a bat mitzvah, a rarity for girls in 1973. Throughout her life, including the period where she moved around with her Air Force husband, she sought Jewish connections to help her feel at home no matter where she was.
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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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Pamphlet from the 8th annual Jewish Family Service Agency Tsedakah event, 2015
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Archival Collection
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This pamphlet contains statistics about Jewish Family Service Agency services provided to the community, and sponsorship advertisements from local businesses.
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Biographical essay by Lucy Gliuck Jacobs, 2014
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Archival Collection
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Lucy Gliuck Jacobs describes her time in Auschwitz, where her parents perished. She was the only survivor of her family of seven children.
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Biographical essay by Eva Peters, 2014
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Archival Collection
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Peters' essay describes her family's journey to escape the Nazis and Communism, remaining in Hungary until 1956. She and her husband were part of the Hungarian Freedom Fighters group, and escaped to Vienna, and then to the U.S.
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