Partner Programs
We co-present numerous programs throughout the year with other community organizations and programming bodies.
Upcoming Programs and Events
Memory After Belsen - a special one-hour sneak-preview
at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival
Sunday May 6, 2012, 8:00pm (doors open at 7:30pm)
Cineplex Odeon Sheppard Cinema #3
4861 Yonge Street, Toronto
Screening will be followed by a Q&A with Executive Producer Henri Lustiger Thaler, Director/Editor Shiva Kumar, Producer/Writer Joshua M. Greene and moderated by Mira Goldfarb, Executive Director of the Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre, UJA Federation of Toronto.
Tickets available online at www.tjff.com
or by phone from 12pm - 6pm daily at 416-324-9121
Advance Box Office at Cineplex Odeon Sheppard Cinema from 2pm - 6pm
This year, the Neuberger is once again pleased to partner with the Toronto Jewish Film Festival. 2012 is the 20th anniversary of the TJFF, which runs May 3-13.
Born in a Concentration Camp
co-presented by the Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre
Canadian premiere | 2010 documentary | 45 min
Wednesday, 9 May | 5:30 pm
Al Green Theatre, Miles Nadal JCC | 750 Spadina Ave at Bloor
This film highlights the remarkable stories of Eva and Miriam, young mothers who gave birth to children while they were concentration camp inmates. Both women managed to survive the Holocaust, along with their infants. Guests at the screening are Dr. Leslie Rosenthal and Miriam Rosenthal, subjects of the film.
Tickets are now on sale – order online at tjff.com
or by phone at 416 324 9121
Other Holocaust-themed films at the TJFF
Holocaust Feature Films:
FREE MEN: Story of how the rector of a Paris Mosque saved Jews during the Nazi occupation of France. (May 9, 5:30 pm at Sheppard Centre; May 11, 3:15 pm at Bloor)
THE LAST BUTTERFLY: 1990 film about a French mime artist who is blackmailed by the Nazis into staging a children's performance at Terezin. (May 7, 8:30 pm at Bloor)
MY BEST ENEMY: caper film about the Nazis search for an authentic Michelangelo drawing that a Jewish family has hidden. (May 12, 9:30 pm at the Al Green)
REMEMBRANCE: A Jewish woman tries to find the Polish lover she met in a concentration camp and who saved her life. (May 9, 4:00 pm at Bloor; May 13, 3:00 pm at Sheppard Centre)
SIMON AND THE OAKS: Young Swedish boy connects with a Jewish boy his own age and the two families become close. (May 13, 12:00 noon at Al Green)
WUNDERKINDER: Jewish siblings are violin virtuosos who befriend a young German girl with the same passion for music. After the Nazis invade their small Ukrainian town this friendship is tested. (May 8, 5:00 pm at Sheppard Centre; May 11, 2:15 pm at Al Green)
Documentaries:
AN ARTICLE OF HOPE: Story of Israel's first Astronaut, Ilan Ramon, and the tiny torah scroll he took into space with him. (May 9, 1:00 pm at Bloor)
THE BOYS OF TEREZIN: Story of the teenage residents of Home One, a concentration camp within Terezin, who created an underground publication that chronicled their daily lives. Guest is GEORGE BRADY, one of these boys who managed to survive. (May 8, 3:00 pm at Al Green)
THE FLAT: Tells the story of the filmmaker's family that discovered that his grandparents had been close friends with a high ranking Nazi official. (May 10, 5:30 pm at Sheppard Centre; May 13, 2:45 pm at Al Green)
IN HEAVEN UNDERGROUND: The Weissensee Cemetery on Berlin is the largest Jewish cemetery in Europe and survived the Nazi rule of Germany. (May 8, 3:00 pm at Sheppard Centre)
IN SEARCH OF YIDDISH: A Russian poet/singer/scientist explores the fate of Yiddish culture in Russia and searches for any vestiges of this culture in Belarus and Moldava that might have survived the Nazi occupation. (May 6, 3:00 pm at Sheppard Centre)
LOST LOVE DIARIES: Ellis and Bernie were a young Jewish couple in Amersterdam before World War II. They were separated by the war and 65 years later Ellis embarks on a journey to unravel the mystery of what happened to her first love. (May 7, 3:00 pm at Sheppard Centre)
MEMORY AFTER BELSEN: Producer Joshua Greene shows clips of his work-in-progress that reveals the challenges to Holocaust awareness in art and education. After his presentation, a panel discussion will follow. (May 6, 8:00 pm at Sheppard Centre)
NICKY'S FAMILY: Story of Nicholas Winton, the Englishman who rescued hundred of Jewish children just before the outbreak of World War II. CBC reporter Joseph Schlesinger, one of the children Winton saved, will conduct a Question & Answer with the audience following the screening. (May 9, 3:00 pm at Sheppard Centre)
A PEOPLE UNCOUNTED: The story of the Nazi genocide against the Roma people (Gypsies). The filmmakers will attend the screening. (May 8, 8:00 pm at Al Green)
PORTRAIT OF WALLY: traces the ownership of Egon Schiele's portrait and the 13 year battle by the heirs of the Jewish owner to obtain the return of the painting. (May 7, 8:00 pm at Al Green; May 10, 3:00 pm at Sheppard Centre)
SIX MILLION AND ONE: Filmmaker David Fisher and his siblings travel to Austria to follow their father's journey of survival during the Holocaust. David Fisher will attend the screening. (May 6, 7:45 pm at Al Green; May 7, 7:30 pm at Sheppard Centre)
TORN: Story of a Polish priest who discovers he was born Jewish who tries to reconnect with his Jewish roots. (May 10, 1:00 pm at Bloor)
THE TRIAL OF ADOLF EICHMANN: A comprehensive and compelling film on the trial of Adolph Eichmann, giving a detailed account of Eichmann's capture, his interrogation and trial. (May 7, 6:00 pm at Al Green; May 13, 4:00 pm at Sheppard Centre)
Programs in the Community
Check back soon for more information about Holocaust education and remembrance programs in Toronto.
Previous Programs
Jewish Life and Death in the Soviet Union during World War II
An International Conference at the Centre for Jewish Studies
University of Toronto
March 24 – 26
During World War II, Soviet Jews constituted one of the largest Jewish populations in the world, with over three million Jews living in the Soviet Union in 1939. In many ways Soviet Jews shared the fate of their European brethren. Almost two million of them were killed during the War. Shot in pits and mass graves near the villages and towns where they lived, they were not transported to death camps. In many places, there is no memory left of the once vibrant Jewish communities.
Despite the importance of Soviet Jews in the war and the Shoah on the Eastern Front, it is only in recent decades that scholars have begun to shed light on what happened to Jews in the Soviet Union during the war.
MUSIC AND CONSCIENCE
ARC Ensemble
Royal Conservatory of Music
Tuesday, 8 November | 8:00 PM
Mazzoleni Concert Hall, TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning | 273 Bloor Street West (at Avenue Road) | Toronto
The ARC Ensemble performed music by Adolf Busch and Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composers who, at great personal cost and considerable risk, took a stand against the racial and cultural policies of the Third Reich. This concert examined their lives and the context of their contribution. Artistic Director: Simon Wynberg
In the space of just a few years, the ARC Ensemble (Artists of the Royal Conservatory) has become one of Canada's pre-eminent cultural ambassadors, raising international appreciation of the Conservatory and Canada's rich musical life. Its members are all senior faculty of the Glenn Gould School, with guest artists drawn from its most exceptional students and graduates. Two of its recordings have been nominated for Grammy awards. The ARC Ensemble plays a leading role in the recovery of music composed by exiles from Nazi Europe, and its work has received unanimous acclaim from the world’s cultural press.
Born in a Concentration Camp
Canadian Premiere of Mikhail Kalik’s Goodbye, Boys!
