The Collection

The October 27 Archive currently contains 839 objects and is regularly being expanded with more material. The archive includes flyers and programs from community gatherings held since the October 27 attack, a comprehensive collection of news coverage about the day of the event, oral history recordings reflecting a diverse array of experiences, and historical documentation about the Jewish experience in Western Pennsylvania.

Using this archive

You can view all the materials currently included in the archive using the browser below. Each object has been described and cataloged to help you discover materials, learn about these materials, understand the context in which these materials were created, and draw connections between different materials. You can refine the browsing experience using various filters, including creator, type, and subject. Some of these filters have already been used to create preset galleries, each organized around specific aspects of the archive. You can also look for specific words and phrase found in the archive using a keyword search.

 

View the collection

Oral History Topics

Jewish Identity

Related content

Image
Marlene Haus
Interview

Marlene Haus

Marlene Haus is a longtime member of Tree of Life Congregation and, at the time of the October 27 attack, had been one of the regular “Morning Minyanaires” who attend the daily prayer service each morning, as well as on the Sabbath and on Jewish holidays.

Image
Rabbi Jeffrey Myers portrait
Interview

Rabbi Jeffrey Myers

Rabbi Hazzan Jeffrey Myers is spiritual leader of Tree of Life Congregation and a survivor of the October 27 attack.

Image
Dan Leger portrait
Interview

Dan Leger

Dan Leger is a nurse, chaplain, and survivor of the October 27 attack. 

Leger received his nursing degree from the Community College of Allegheny County. He worked at the Children’s Institute as a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War and was later a Pediatric Nurse at the Neurosurgical Department of the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Later in his career, he became a hospital chaplain.

Image
Keren Gorban portrait
Interview

Rabbi Keren Gorban

Rabbi Keren Gorban was Associate Rabbi of Temple Sinai in Pittsburgh at the time of the October 27 attack and led a “Honeymoon Israel” trip in the weeks after the attack.

Image
Martin Gaynor portrait
Interview

Marty Gaynor

Martin S. “Marty” Gaynor is the E. J. Barone University Professor Of Economics And Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and a survivor of the October 27 attack.

Image
Rabbi Doris Dyen portrait
Interview

Rabbi Doris Dyen

Rabbi Doris Dyen is a rabbi and chaplain, a member of Congregation Dor Hadash, and spiritual leader of the independent havurah (prayer group) Makom HaLev. She was one of the people on the grounds of the Tree of Life synagogue at the time of the October 27 attack.

Image
headshot photograph of Walter Caplan
Interview

Walter Caplan

Walter Daniel “Wally” Caplan was raised in Jeannette, PA. in Westmoreland County and has lived most of his life in Greenberg, PA. aside from his college years at Penn State University.

Image
headshot photograph of Kathy Blee.
Interview

Kathleen Blee

Kathleen Blee is the Bettye J. and Ralph E. Bailey Dean in the Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh and a member of Congregation Dor Hadash. 

Image
headshot photograph of Rabbi Elisar Admon
Interview

Rabbi Elisar Admon

Rabbi Elisar Admon was a teacher at the Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh and a member of the Gesher Chaim Shel Emes chevra kadisha (burial society) at the time of the October 27 attack.

Subscribe to Jewish Identity