Arlene Hanauer needs someone to take her books.

The retired teacher has a lot of them. Her collection includes about two dozen well-worn books related to the Holocaust, the oldest of which dates back nearly 50 years. The Jewish Furlong resident has period photographs and documents, too.

She’s shopped her collection around to the Center for Jewish History in New York, as well as the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center here in Elkins Park, among six or seven other places around the country. There has been some interest, but Hanauer still has her books.

Hanauer, however, is more than just a teacher and more than just a history buff. She was a fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and the daughter-in-law of a man who fled Germany and the Nazis in the

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