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Biographical essay about Stephen Nasser, 2014
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Archival Collection
Description
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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Gilbert Yarchever and Edythe Katz Yarchever oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Gilbert and Edythe Katz Yarchever conducted on February 13, 2006 by Michael Geeser for the I Remember When: Recollections from Jewish Las Vegas Leaders Oral History Project sponsored by the Congregation Ner Tamid and the Las Vegas, Nevada Centennial Committee. In this interview, the Yarchevers talk about their roles in World War II and their involvement in the early history of Jewish temples in Las Vegas, Nevada. Edythe discusses her first husband's work on desegregation and her efforts in Holocaust education.
Archival Collection
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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Jewish Federation correspondence, meeting minutes, and other records, item 26
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Jewish Federation of Las Vegas Board of Directors meeting minutes, December 14, 1988.
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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