Mays Landing, N.J. — Atlantic Cape Community College and Stockton University will present the 40th annual Holocaust Awareness Program on April 18.

This year’s free event, which is designed to bring awareness to the Holocaust’s impact on the local community, will feature a dialogue with Linwood sisters Rita Stromfeld and Blanche Powell, whose parents were Holocaust survivors, about their book “My Mother’s Words.”

Stromfeld and Powell will be interviewed by Peter Murphy of Murphy Writing of Stockton University about the book, which is a loving memoir of their mother Helen Fassler. Fassler and her husband, Murray, were Holocaust survivors from Poland who emigrated to New York City after World War II. The book comprises a series of short anecdotal stories of lessons learned by surviving the Holocaust and coming to America.

The in-person program will be held from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. on April 18 at Atlantic Cape Community College, 5100 Black Horse Pike in Mays Landing in the Student Center – G Building. The program is open to the public and designed for educators, community members and college and university students from both schools. A question-and-answer session will follow the dialogue.