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Kraft Sussman Funeral Services' Laura Sussman and Wendy Kraft, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph, 2016 June 16

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UNLV University Libraries Photographs of the Jewish Community of Southern Nevada
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Collection Number: PH-00389
Collection Name: UNLV University Libraries Photographs of the Jewish Community of Southern Nevada
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Sussman, Laura A., 1956-

Laura Sussman was born March 26, 1956 in Cleveland, Ohio where there was a robust Jewish community. She moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1997. The Jewish Community Center (JCC) hired her as its first executive director. She was a director for eight years, then executive director at Temple Beth Sholom. Sussman met her wife, Wendy Kraft, through their work with the JCC and love followed. Several years later, in 2009, so did their new business, Kraft-Sussman Funeral and Cremation services.

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The Great Pause: Las Vegas Chronicles of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Oral history project conducted by the Oral History Research Center

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