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The Blue Card
to Host 82nd Annual Benefit Gala to Aid Holocaust Survivors
on Monday, November 21, 2016
“Broadway
Salutes The Blue Card” to be Hosted by Tony Shalhoub with
Performances by Linda Lavin, Lainie Kazan, Raúl Esparza and
the Cast of Broadway’s “Indecent”
U.S. Senator
Charles Schumer, The New York City Council and Human Rights
Lawyer and Founder of the Lawfare Project Brooke Goldstein
to be Honored
NEW YORK,
November 9, 2016 –The
Blue Card, a national nonprofit organization dedicated
to aiding Holocaust survivors, will host its annual benefit
gala on Monday, November 21, 2016, at Jazz At Lincoln
Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall. The event will be hosted by
Tony Nominee and Emmy and Golden Globe Award-Winning Actor
Tony Shalhoub.
This year’s
benefit will feature a cocktail reception, seated dinner and
performances by Broadway and film stars Linda Lavin, Lainie
Kazan and Raúl Esparza. It will also feature a special
performance from the cast of the upcoming Broadway play
“Indecent” by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel.
Additional
honorees include: New York City Council; Leo Rechter,
Founder and President of The National Association of Jewish
Child Holocaust Survivors (NAHOS), who will receive the Max
L. Heine Humanitarian Award; and Broadway, film and
television actor Mimi Lieber, The Blue Card President
Emeritus.
“The Blue Card
is proud to recognize Senator Schumer, Brooke Goldstein, the
New York City Council, Mimi Lieber and Leo Rechter, for
their dedication to raising awareness of the current plight
of Holocaust survivors in the United States who are so
critically in need of financial assistance,” said Masha
Pearl, Executive Director of The Blue Card. “For those
individuals that survived the atrocities of the Holocaust,
many are struggling to make ends meet in the face of a
growing number of medical issues, the rising cost of living
and challenges navigating the health systems. The mission of
The Blue Card, to help survivors live their remaining years
in dignity, is incredibly time-sensitive as at least 50
percent of Holocaust survivors alive today will pass away
within the next 10 to 20 years. We greatly appreciate the
work of this year’s honorees, and are looking to the larger
community to help spread awareness about those still in
need.”
The cocktail
hour will begin at 6:00pm and the dinner will begin at
6:30pm. Individual tickets start at $400 and tables at
$4,000. Tickets can be purchased by calling Milana Baazov at
The Blue Card at (212) 239-2251 or by visiting: www.bluecardfund.org
The Blue Card’s
2015 Annual Benefit Gala honored Nobel Peace Prize laureate,
human rights activist and Holocaust survivor the late Elie
Wiesel, and was presented by Academy Award winner Michael
Douglas and author and journalist Kati Marton. Past event
attendees and honorees have included Mia Farrow and Ronan
Farrow, Ambassador Emeritus Thomas Pickering,
philanthropists Zach Lonstein and Shoshanna Lonstein, former
New York City mayor Ed Koch, musician Regina Spektor,
journalist Jonathan Alter, and actors Danny Aiello, Cynthia
Nixon and David Hyde Pierce.
About The Blue
Card
The mission of
The Blue Card is to provide direct financial assistance,
with utmost respect and ever mindful of their dignity, to
needy Holocaust survivors in the United States. Financial
assistance is available on a monthly basis for most basic
needs, as well as for emergencies, such as medical and
dental care, special equipment, rent and utility shut offs,
along with many other programs. Founded in Germany in 1934,
and reestablished in the United States in 1939, The Blue
Card has distributed nearly $30 million to Holocaust
survivors date with 100% of annual contributions made by
individuals going directly to survivors. The Blue Card is
Better Business Bureau (BBB) certified. Furthermore,
The Blue Card has received a Four Star Rating from Charity
Navigator. Finally, The Independent Charities of America
(ICA) recognized The Blue Card with its Best in America Seal
of Excellence, a merit that has been awarded to fewer than
1,000 of the 1,000,000 charities that are a part of ICA.
For more
information or to make a donation, please visit www.BlueCardFund.org.
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