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The public is invited to attend “A Conversation with Andrew Carroll: Eyewitness Accounts of the Holocaust from the Letters of American Troops,” April 25, at 3 p.m., at Raritan Valley Community College.

The event, which is free of charge, is being presented by RVCC’s Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in conjunction with the Warren County Community College World War Two and Holocaust Research Center. It will be held in the Conference Center at RVCC’s Branchburg campus.

Andrew Carroll is the best-selling author of such books as Letters of a Nation, Behind the Lines, and War Letters, which inspired the same-titled, critically acclaimed PBS documentary. Carroll is the founding director of The Center for American War Letters at Chapman University, which works to honor and remember American troops and their loved ones by seeking out and preserving their war-related correspondences. Carroll will bring with him and show audience members original letters from every American conflict, beginning with handwritten notes composed during the Revolutionary War to emails sent from Iraq and Afghanistan.

During the RVCC program, Carroll will highlight, in particular, original letters written by U.S. service members from World War II who walked through Nazi concentration camps and wrote home describing their firsthand experiences.

Carroll also will speak about his most recent book, My Fellow Soldiers: General John Pershing and the Americans Who Helped Win the Great War, which draws on little-known and newly uncovered letters and diaries to describe the American experience in World War I.

For additional information, contact Peppy Margolis, peppy.margolis@raritanval.edu or 908-526-1200, ext. 8524.

Raritan Valley Community College’s main campus is located at 118 Lamington Road in Branchburg, NJ. For further information, visit www.raritanval.edu.

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April 9, 2018

Media contact: Donna Stolzer, 908-526-1200, ext. 8383

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