RVCC Holocaust Institute Webinar to Feature Survivor’s Story Shared by Grandchild

Raritan Valley Community College’s Institute of Holocaust and Genocide Studies will present a webinar featuring David Reckess, a grandchild of a Holocaust survivor, Monday, October 28, from 10-11 a.m. Reckess is Executive Director of 3GNY, a nonprofit group founded by grandchildren of Holocaust survivors.

During the program, Reckess will share how his grandmother, Sarah Tuller, survived the Holocaust and will detail his own journey of embracing his third-generation identity. He also will express the importance of telling her story in the classroom and to the broader community.

Participants will hear about Reckess’ maternal grandmother Sarah Tuller, who was 16 when Nazis invaded her hometown of Lublin, Poland, in 1939 and forced her and her family into the Lublin Ghetto. After escaping from the Majdanek Concentration Camp, she and her parents survived by hiding in a Polish Catholic family’s small apartment for more than three years.

Registration for the webinar is required. To register, visit https://tinyurl.com/3twj2kw4.

The program is part of the Learning Through Experience series, presented in partnership with the Jewish Federation of West Central New Jersey. For additional information, contact Michelle Edgar, Program Specialist, Institute of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, at michelle.edgar@raritanval.edu. To learn more about the Holocaust Institute, visit https://www.raritanval.edu/community-resources/holocaust-institute.

For additional information about 3GNY, visit https://www.3gny.org/.

RVCC is located at 118 Lamington Road in Branchburg, NJ. For further information, visit www.raritanval.edu.

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