MCC Daily Tribune

Art is Activism: HGHRP's 36th Annual Yom HaShoah

Please join the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Project for a meaningful 36th Annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration: Art is Activism this Thursday April 16th as we honor the lives lost in the Holocaust through reflection, remembrance, and action. This program will include a candle-lighting ceremony and the reading of names.

In the morning, there will be an opening ceremony in the Campus Center Atrium at 9:30 am, followed by the Reading of the Names and Candle Lighting from 10:00 am to 2:00pm.

Throughout the day on Thursday April 16th, come listen as a 2nd Generation survivor tells their family's story. As well as visit our photo exhibit and read testimony of local survivors. Attendees are also invited to participate in a silent artwork station; using creativity as a form of remembrance, expression, and resistance. All are welcome to attend as we come together to remember the past and inspire a more just future.

Jacque Sarphatie Discenza, 11:00 AM, Monroe B (3-205A)

Jacque was born in 1947 at the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp. In April 1951, her family was relocated to the Foehrenwald DP Camp as part of an effort to facilitate their emigration to Israel. However, due to prevailing diplomatic constraints involving the British authorities, their application for Israeli sponsorship was ultimately denied. In late 1954, the family obtained sponsorship through a small Sephardic congregation in Brooklyn, New York, and emigrated to the United States in January 1955. She was eight years old at the time of arrival and reached her ninth year during a five-month convalescence in the Ellis Island hospital.

Chloe Allen
Student Life & Leadership Develop.
04/13/2026