First Annual Gail Hirsch Rosenthal Memorial Program
Atlantic City, N.J. — A new lecture series in honor of the former director of ĢƵ’s Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center will debut on Tuesday, March 11.
Sheryl Ochayon of Yad Vashem, the World Holocuast Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, will talk about 'Love Stories as Resistance During the Holocaust.'
Holocaust scholar and author Sheryl Ochayon will present a program titled “Love Stories as Resistance During the Holocaust” during the first annual Gail Hirsch Rosenthal Memorial Program at 5 p.m. at the John F. Scarpa Academic Center at ĢƵ Atlantic City.
Ochayon is the Echoes and Reflections Project Director at the International Institute for Holocaust Education at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem. She will discuss how love was an act of resistance during the Shoah, as well as how these stories can be used to teach the Holocaust.
Rosenthal joined the Holocaust Resource Center in 1991 and was its director until her death in October 2023. Her work and connections to the local community and its Holocaust survivors were instrumental in helping the center grow from a single closet to its current size, where more than 200 programs a year are offered. This event was made possible due to the Gail Hirsch Rosenthal Memorial Fund, which was created in 2024 and is one of the first endowed funds to benefit programming by the Holocaust Resource Center.
The program will take place in the Fannie Lou Hamer Event Room. Admission and parking are free in the Scarpa Academic Center lot, but RSVP is required by calling 609-652-4699 or emailing hrc@stockton.edu.
The event is co-sponsored by the Board of Jewish Education of Atlantic and Cape May Counties, the Jewish Federation of Atlantic and Cape May Counties, the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education, the minors in Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Jewish Studies at ĢƵ, the Sam Azeez Museum of Woodbine Heritage and Yad Vashem.
