The Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center at the Richard Stockton College of N.J. is pleased to announce a workshop for educators and community members on Oct. 1, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

This free and open-to-the-public workshop will be held in the newly expanded Sam and Sara Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center and the presentation will be in the Liviu Librescu Classroom. Educators are encouraged to attend and 5 Professional Development Hours (PDH) will be offered.

The workshop is entitled "Lincoln's Legacy: Civil and Religious Freedoms." The keystone of the workshop will be excerpts from an oral history testimony by Rene Cohen from Margate, whose grandfather, Nathan Levy, a nineteenth-century European Jewish immigrant and a Civil War soldier imprisoned in the Confederate prison at Andersonville, was one of the officers who accompanied Lincoln's body from Washington, D.C. to Springfield, Illinois, on the special funeral train.

Deeply affected by this experience, Nathan Levy taught his children and grandchildren that freedom and civil rights were the gifts of the United States through Lincoln and that they should live their lives respecting and honoring these gifts, the legacy of Lincoln. The workshop presenters will expand the discussion to include prejudice reduction - not only race based but also religious based.

This workshop was funded by a 2009 Humanities Festival Grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For information call 652-4699.