35th Annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration
What began with a student asking, “What can we do?” to end antisemitism and discrimination has evolved into a renowned student organization that—35 years later—continues to respond to that same question.
Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project student leaders and alumni are planning an extraordinary year, culminating with a 35th Anniversary Yom HaShoah Commemoration where the inspiring story of the HGHRP will be celebrated and shared. A story which you helped write and that continues to evolve!
Meet our guest speaker, American director and film producer Lynn Novick. Ms. Novick will reflect on the award-winning film, The US and the Holocaust (2022), that she produced with Ken Burns and Sara Botstein for PBS.
Dinner & Special Presentation
- Date: Thursday, April 24, 2025
- Time: 5 p.m.
- Location: Irondequoit Country Club, 4045 East Avenue, Rochester
- Featuring: Lynn Novick, American Director and film producer
- Tickets: $100 per person; $800 per table
Formal invitations will be mailed in February 2025. Please contact the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project if you have any questions.
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Special Guest Lynn Novick
Lynn Novick is one of the most renowned and respected documentary filmmakers and story tellers in America. For more than 30 years she has directed and produced landmark documentary films for PBS about American life and culture, history, politics, sports, art, architecture, literature, and music. Her more than 80 hours of acclaimed programming include multi-part series, The Vietnam War (2017), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), Frank Lloyd Wright (1998), The War (2007), and Prohibition (2011), created in collaboration with directing partner Ken Burns. Novick has received Emmy, Peabody and Alfred I. duPont Columbia Awards, and been honored by organizations as diverse as the Reporters’ Committee for the Freedom of the Press and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Throughout her distinguished career, she has been dedicated to telling authentic, nuanced, scrupulously researched true stories that shed light on both our complicated shared past and our fractured, polarized present…
Novick collaborated with Burns and producer/director Sara Botstein on The US and the Holocaust. The series, which premiered in September 2022 to widespread critical acclaim, tells the story of how the American people grappled with one of the greatest humanitarian tragedies in history.
Novick’s future projects include a series on the history of Soviet spying in America, and a series about the public and private lives of remarkable American women. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale with honors in American Studies, and lives in New York City.
