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very day, Joseph Adler ris- terial has an important histori-
es at 6:30 am. and propels cal value in its documentation of
his walker into his study a period in Jewish and human ex-
overlooking his lush front perience," said James Fox, assis-
yard. Ignoring the view, he tant head of the library. "It is an
spends several hours cataloging amazing collection and we will be
and reviewing his
3,000 items of Holo-
caust memorabilia
and Judaica.
Mr. Adler, who
turns 99 in three
weeks, has what in
polite terms is called
an interest, but is
perhaps more appro-
priately labeled an ob-
session. He wants to
save the past so ti--
future won't ' peat
...,.,,, --ics most hor-
Fible mistakes.
"This is what I do. I
am interested in what
is happening to JPWS-
in the world," he said,
--his words laced with a
slight German accent.
"I always have been."
He knows that soon
his collection, stuffed
into about 200 boxes
in a cramped study in Joseph Adler reaches for
PHOTOS BY BILL GEMMELL
his Livonia home, will some of his Holocaust artifacts.
be in the hands of the
University of Michigan's special happy to have it."
collection library in Ann Arbor.
The library plans to keep the
He plans to donate the collection collection in a secure place but
to U-M after he dies so students still make it available to Holo-
can have immediate access to it. caust scholars.
"It is most important to Mr.
But for now, he meticulously
labels each piece and creates a Adler and his family that the
history detailing everything he school use the items for study. We
plan to make sure their wishes
knows about it.
"I know where things are, but are fulfilled," Mr. Fox said.
Also going to the library will be
others don't know what I have,"
Mr. Adler's 1,000-volume library
he said.
The things, as he refers to of Judaica, everything from a
tome about Golda Meir's life to a
collection of drawings depicting
life during the Nazi occupation.
"If you have a question about
anything- in Judaism, I could find
the answer in one of these books,"
he said, gesturing to the packed
bookshelves.
A sample of the Judaica col-
lection is a five-inch-thick book
published in 1615 about the his-
tory of the Jews in Frankfurt. It
them, include pages and pages of is one of his favorites.
'The Nazis didn't get this one,"
stamps from the war, a Nazi par-
ty card signed by Heinrich he said, fingering the pages, their
Himmler and brown pieces of corners worn from almost four
wallpaper from Anne Frank's centuries of use.
When he speaks of the past, he
family room.
"From the perspective of the describes a time when he was a
special collection library, the ma- successful real estate agent and

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U-M plans to make
the collection
available to
students.