Chapel Haven Schleifer Center (CHSC) is honored to join with the Yellow Lights Program to present Flick the Switch. All are invited to join us on campus at 2 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 24, 2025 as we light up yellow to honor the victims of the Holocaust and to shine a spotlight on the lessons of this atrocity.
Each attendee will receive a yahrzeit candle to take home, and a loaf of challah bread baked by Ricotta, a kosher pizzeria and bakery located in downtown New Haven.
Registration is kindly requested to help us plan. Use the link below.
Register to join us January 24
On this international day of remembrance, we are honored to be joined by New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker; Ms. Fay Sheppard, a Second-Generation Survivor; Ms. Harriet Schleifer; and friends across the New Haven community. Rachel McEachern, founder of the CHSC Judaism Club, will emcee. Members of the club will perform a closing selection. Light refreshments will be served.
The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, is an international memorial day on the 27th of January that commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, which resulted in the genocide of one-third of the Jewish people, along with countless members of other minorities by Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945, an attempt to implement its “final solution” to the Jewish question. The 27th of January was chosen to commemorate the date when the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the Red Army in 1945.
The Yellow Lights program started in 2022 in our neighbor, New York State, as “New York State Lights Up”. A volunteer committee felt the need to bring greater awareness to International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The volunteers reached out to landmarks in the state, requesting that they light up yellow on Jan 27 to honor the victims of the Holocaust and to shine a spotlight on the lessons of this atrocity.
In 2022, partnering landmarks like the Empire State Building, One World Trade Center, Niagara Falls, Penn Station, Grand Central, airport terminals, and prominent bridges throughout neighboring N.Y. joined in lighting up yellow.
In 2023, Governor Lamont added a Connecticut location, the Travelers Towers in Hartford. This January 27, 2024, active volunteers in greater New Haven will add over 25 New Haven landmarks, as we join this effort to light up yellow. CHSC is proud to be one of those landmarks. Look for a billboard after the New Year at the I-95/91 interchange celebrating this important milestone.
Flick the Switch is a free event and open to all! Please register using the link below and join us for this important occasion.
