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Collection of letters, telegraphs, and family photographs exchanged between 1st Lieutenant  Herman G. Ramsey and his family in Columbus, Ohio. Twenty-four letters lead up to Ramsey's death in 1944 while being transported on a Japanese POW ship en route to mainland Japan. Also included is a letter from Dick Clark, a fellow POW who survived the war, offering his condolences to Herman's family. The collection also contains an album of family photographs along with condolence letters from General Douglas MacArthur and Army Major General James L. Collins.

The Herman Riediger and Fort Lauderdale Beach Hotel Collection contains correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, advertisements, magazines, printed materials, certificates, programs, 1 cookbook written by Hermann Riediger, Pompano High School yearbooks, and objects. Materials document Hermann Riediger as the Food and Beverage Control Manager at the Lauderdale Beach Hotel and his daughter, Kathryn Riediger Heinley.

Hilbert Levitz's oral history discusses his childhood and teenage years growing up during the war and his career as a professor at multiple universities. His wartime memories consist of learning about Pearl Harbor, Adolf Hitler, his family's involvement in the war, war bonds, the Holocaust, the 1939 World's Fair, and the advancement of technology. Levitz also goes into depth about his short time in the army during the Korean War, his higher education, and computer science.