Museum of Jewish Heritage to illuminate its facade for Holocaust Remembrance Day this week

Tomorrow—Tuesday, January 27—is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. To mark the occasion, the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust will illuminate its façade in vibrant yellow, a color closely associated with the day because of the yellow Star of David that Jews were forced to wear during the Holocaust.

The activation is presented in collaboration with Light Up America Yellow, a country-wide coalition whose mission is, according to the official website, “to illuminate landmarks across America on January 27 as a visible tribute to the six million Jewish victims […] of the Holocaust.”

The lighting will also draw attention to a slate of programming taking place at the museum through Thursday, January 29, commemorating the day of remembrance.

“Our mission is to remember and honor the victims of Nazism and the Holocaust every day,” said Joshua Mack, the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications of the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, in an official statement. “Sharing the lessons of the Holocaust is central to our work, especially as the number of living survivors continues to diminish.”

Among the various highlighted programs is the launch of Collections Online, a new digital portal available free to the public, featuring photographs, film footage, artifacts, ephemera and testimonies that document Jewish life before, during and after the Holocaust.

On Wednesday, January 28, the museum will livestream a tour of London exploring “the layers of Jewish life that have shaped the city over centuries,” according to an official press release. The program will focus on how Jewish communities built institutions and sustained traditions across the European city.

Also on the roster: an intimate dinner for early- and mid-career professionals featuring testimony from a Holocaust survivor; a screening of Defiant Requiem, which tells the story of a concentration camp in the Czech Republic that held thousands of artists and scholars, most of them Jewish; and Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire, a documentary about the renowned Holocaust survivor and author of Night.

You can browse through the full slate of programming right here.