(PDF) (DOC) (JPG)September 3, 2014

(MAHWAH, NJ) –Rasheeda S. Sampson-Jefferson, singer, actress, dancer, choreographer and adjunct professor of dance at Bloomfield College, will deliver a talk entitled “One of the Black Angels: My Father, A Soldier and Liberator of Buchenwald Concentration Camp”at Ramapo College of New Jersey on Thursday, September 11 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Trustees Pavilion (PAV1).

Ms. Sampson-Jefferson will share the story of how her father, Otto Sampson Sr., an African-American G.I. in the 380^th Quartermaster Company of the U.S. 4^th Armored Division, came to be one of the liberators of Buchenwald Concentration Camp on April 11, 1945. Her presentation will include excerpts from a 1999 interview that she conducted with her father about his experiences as an African-American soldier and a concentration camp liberator.

She discovered her father’s role in history by chance and through her research at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC and the Rutgers Oral History Archives at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.

Sampson-Jefferson has more than 20 years’ experience in the arts, education and business and has taught at Bloomfield College since 2005.

The event is sponsored by The Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Ramapo College.  For more information, visit https://www.ramapo.edu/holocaust/ or call 201.684.7409.

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About Ramapo College

Ramapo College of New Jersey is the state’s premier public liberal arts college and is committed to academic excellence through interdisciplinary and experiential learning, and international and intercultural understanding. The comprehensive college is situated among the beautiful Ramapo Mountains, is within commuting distance to New York City, was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful College Campuses in America by CondeNast Traveler, and boasts the best on-campus housing in New Jersey per Niche.com. Established in 1969, Ramapo College offers bachelor’s degrees in the arts, business, data science, humanities, social sciences and the sciences, as well as in professional studies, which include business, education, nursing and social work. In addition, the College offers courses leading to teacher certification at the elementary and secondary levels, and offers graduate programs leading to master’s degrees in Accounting, Applied Mathematics, Business Administration, Contemporary Instructional Design, Computer Science, Creative Music Technology, Data Science, Educational Leadership, Nursing, Social Work and Special Education, as well as a Doctor of Nursing Practice.

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