Canadian Friends of Israel Elwyn is sponsoring a movie event at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival being held at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre on Sunday, May 7.
The Birthday Party, the latest documentary by Ruth Walk, Israel’s current Laureate of the Prize of the Art of Cinema, features a birthday party like no other.
In the summer of 1944, three trainloads of boys from Kovno, Lithuania, ages 7 to 12 and survivors of the notorious Ghetto Children’s Action, were rounded up and sent to Auschwitz. One year later, only 25 of the 130 young Jewish boys had survived. For over 40 years, these “children” have gathered to celebrate May 5, the day of their liberation and the date each has taken as his official birthday. The Birthday Party documents their stories of survival, as children in Auschwitz and as adults living with memories from a lifetime ago.
Tickets for the May 7 event will be $36 for adults and $18 for children. A charitable receipt is available for part of the ticket price. There will be a coffee reception at 3 p.m., followed by the film at 4 p.m.
For tickets or more information, call 416-787-1511 ext. 300.
All funds raised will be directed towards the endowment of a Speech and Communications Therapy room in the new Israel Elwyn facility.
Israel Elwyn, the largest not-for-profit provider of services to children and adults in Israel with special needs, was founded in l984 with a defined mission – to enable children and adults with disabilities to achieve their highest level of independence and dignity. Today it provides support services to more than l,600 children and adults in community-based day and residential programs throughout Israel.
Canadian Friends of Israel Elwyn supports the Pre-School Development Centre in Jerusalem. Using assistive technologies, the centre provides services to children ages 2-6 with neurologically based physical disabilities to promote their independence and improve their quality of life. Daily physical remediation programs include physical and occupational therapy that focus on skills for daily living. The centre has been operating out of an older, overcrowded building that is not fully wheelchair accessible. We are very excited that a new state-of-the-art facility has been specifically designed to meet the needs of the disabled children in this program.
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