3GNY Stories Live: WEDU Wednesday featuring Emma Taffet

Scary Lucky: A Grandma's Story of Survival

Wednesday, November 13 | 8:00pm ET | On Zoom

Join us November 13 for the next installment of our popular WEDU Wednesday series as 3GNY volunteer Emma Taffet shares the story of her grandmother, Ann Preis Green.

Ann Preis Green was born in 1925 in Neunkirchen, Austria. She went into hiding when she was 16, in 1941, and was sent to Auschwitz at the end of 1944. She was liberated from the work camp Salzwedel in 1945 and went back to Vienna until her mother’s cousin organized her immigration to the United States. After meeting her future husband, Jack Green, on the subway, they settled in Queens where they had three children. When Ann passed away in 2020 at 95 years old, she had seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Those who knew and loved her miss her infectious laugh, sense of humor, and mandelbrot.

About Emma

Emma Taffet is the granddaughter of Ann Preis Green. She grew up 15 minutes away from her grandmother in New Jersey, who frequently came into her middle school and Hebrew school classrooms to tell her story. Emma began telling Ann's story in the Winter of 2024 after completing 3GNY’s WEDU speaker training that previous winter.

Emma currently works in HR in NYC. In her spare time, she enjoys playing tennis, taking long walks in Central Park and cooking dinner for friends and loved ones.

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3GNY Stories Live: WEDU Wednesdays take place Wednesdays at 8:00 pm ET. In this virtual series, grandchildren of Holocaust survivors share their family stories with us. You'll also learn more about our educational initiative, WEDU, which engages 3Gs to learn and share their family stories in school classrooms. View past WEDU Wednesday presentations on our YouTube channel. If you know educators looking to bring our speakers into their classrooms, please contact WEDUscheduling@3gnewyork.org.

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3GNY Stories Live: WEDU Wednesday Featuring Emma Taffet