Individual Stories

PowerPoint slides for a presentation Gregg regularly gives to residents at a local senior living facility on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

A Polish coin commemorating Irina Sendler, issued in 2009 as part of a series called "Poles Who Saved Jews."

The newspaper obituary for Irina Sendler, who passed away in 2008.

An original, handwritten, six-page letter from Irena Sendler — with its original envelope. Postmarked April 21 at Warsaw, Poland, the cover is franked with two 1941 Mi-75 12 Groschen Deutsches Reich Generalgouvernement Nazi occupation stamps.

Holocaust hero Irena Sendler, through the lens of Gregg's experience acquiring a handwritten letter she had written in 1942.

An ad for Smith-Corona typewriters, featuring one of "Professor Lucifer Butts'" machines, created by Rube Goldberg.

Most of Goldberg’s legacy is defined by his humor — most prevalently the complex machines he designed to do such simple tasks as brushing teeth or taking photos. Those machines were featured in a Sunday Funnies comic strip that ran from 1914 to 1964, in which Professor Lucifer Butts presents and explains his inventions.