Larry Hodes Movie, Deli and Q&A With the Film's Co-producer

09 Nov @ 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Location: Multipurpose Room
Cost: $18/person for members; $25/person for guests

Join us for the screening of Crossing the River, a short film about a very long story starring the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor siblings. Inseparable, informed and unfailingly optimistic, the Fink siblings have outlived spouses, offspring, hundreds of friends and relatives and arguably the most horrific genocide in human history. How did four siblings survive the Holocaust in a Siberian labor camp after escaping Nazi-occupied Poland, successfully make their way to Canada and live long enough to be the oldest living Holocaust survivor siblings in the world? What’s the secret sauce that allowed them to withstand a war, the loss of family and live such long lives? With unparalleled access to the subjects and their archives, filmmaker Allan Novak has been filming his family for the past 40 years and uses the occasion of their newfound celebrity as an opportunity to look back and fill in the missing pieces of their past. Along the way, the film reveals how this seemingly ordinary family is actually quite extraordinary.

We’ll begin the afternoon with a kosher deli lunch, followed by a screening of the film. Afterward, enjoy dessert and a presentation by the film’s co-producer, Carol Sevitt, who will also lead a discussion and Q&A session.

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