ABOUT THE HONOREES

ROBERTA GROSSMAN is an award-winning filmmaker with a passion for history and social justice, and has written, directed, and produced more than 45 hours of film and television. Her films tell stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things in the name of justice. Grossman wrote, produced, and directed Who Will Write Our History. In 2014, she directed Above and Beyond for producer Nancy Spielberg, about the American–Jewish WWII pilots who volunteered to fight for Israel in the 1948 War.

DR. SAMUEL D. KASSOW is the Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College, and is recognized as one of the world’s leading scholars on the Holocaust and the Jews of Poland. He is widely known for his 2007 book, Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive (Indiana University Press). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research, has won numerous awards, and has lectured widely.

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Producer NANCY SPIELBERG grew up immersed in filmmaking, working on her brother’s early films as cast and crew. An accomplished businesswoman and philanthropist, she has turned her energy and talents to producing documentary and feature films. She is executive producer of Who Will Write Our History, which tells the story of the secret buried archive of the Warsaw Ghetto; it is being screened globally and is slated for national broadcast in early 2020.

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