United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of American Friends Service Committee The American Friends Service Committee donated the American Friends Service Committee Refugee Assistance Case Files to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2002. The AFSC had physically entrusted the collection to the Balch Institute of Ethnic Studies in Philadelphia in the early 1970s. When the Balch Institute was planning to merge with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the AFSC contacted the Museum regarding possible deposit of the collection.