WHIPPANY, New Jersey (WABC) — As the war rages on overseas, a mother and her young daughter are trying to make a new life for themselves in the Tri-State after fleeing Ukraine.

Dance lessons in Ukrainian, for the youngest in the community, are one of the many ways the Ukrainian American Cultural Center of New Jersey helps educate and connect those with Ukrainian heritage to their language and culture.

“It helps those of us who never lived in Ukraine to feel that much more Ukrainian outside what we experience in our own homes and creates a community,” said Anya Tershakovek Tomko of the Ukrainian American Cultural Center of New Jersey.

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By: Sonia Rincón – ABC News