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House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Source U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Released November 12, 2025 69,179 documents

Documents released by the U.S. House Committee on Oversight from the Epstein estate (November 2025). Public records, OCR-processed for full-text and semantic search.

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My Friends’ Homes Were As Barren Of Culture As Mine With The Exception Of Artie Edelman And Bernie Beck

document My friends’ homes were as barren of culture as mine with the exception of Artie Edelman and Bernie Beck

and we loved to ask because it was free and it showed them that we had ""culture"" (pronounced ""cul

document The girls loved to be asked on a museum date

I Loved Classical Music

document I loved classical music

all we had was a small plastic radio that lived in the kitchen

document During my early years

The Red Badge of Courage; Moby Dick; and a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

document The first real books I actually read were several to which I had been introduced by the Classic Comics: The Count of Monte Christo

I was amazed at how faithful the comic was to the tone

document I recently came across the Classic Comic of Crime and Punishment. Having read three translations of the great work of Dostoyevsky

Classic Comics Were Marvelous. Not Only Could We Read About The Adventures Of Ivanhoe

document Classic Comics were marvelous. Not only could we read about the adventures of Ivanhoe

we had a library that was also tiny and somewhat decrepit

document In addition to the “subversive” book store

shortly after Julius and Ethel Rosenberg had been sentenced to death. A Rosenberg relative was accos

document It was during the height of the McCarthy period

expect for a small used book shop that smelled old and seemed to specialize in subversive books. The

document There were no book stores in Boro Park

so we had to use the areas around the house as our play area. Our house became the magnet for my fri

document We had no room to play indoors

In Front Of The Stoop Was What We Called ""The Gutter."" (Today It Is Referred To As ""The Street."") The Gutter Was Part Of Our Playground Since Cars Rarely Drove Down Our Street. We Played Punch Ball In The Gutter

document In front of the stoop was what we called ""the gutter."" (Today it is referred to as ""the street."") The gutter was part of our playground since cars rarely drove down our street. We played punch ball in the gutter

We Were Not Poor. We Always Had Food. But We Couldn’t Afford Any Luxuries

document We were not poor. We always had food. But we couldn’t afford any luxuries

politicians and Zionists. After the end of the war

document We also learned of Stalin’s campaign against Jewish writers

whose son Moshe went off to fight in Israel’s War of Independence. There was a big party to celebrat

document One particular incident remains a powerful and painful memory. My mother had a friend from the neighborhood named Mrs. Perlestein

Among My Other Early Memories Was Israel’s Struggle For Independence And Statehood

document Among my other early memories was Israel’s struggle for independence and statehood

which according to a Jewish joke of the time

document We weren’t told of any Holocaust or Shoah—those words were not even in our vocabulary—just that we had lost many relatives in Europe to the brutal Nazis and Hitler (“Yemach Sh’mo—may his name be erased from memory). We cheered Hitler’s death

at least I could look out for German spies on our beaches. When I was four years old

document If I could help our war effort by turning myself into a superhero

Among My Earliest Memories Were Vignittes From The Second World War

document Among my earliest memories were vignittes from the Second World War

When I Lived In Boro Park During The 1940S And 1950S

document When I lived in Boro Park during the 1940s and 1950s