The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
A history to be reckoned with.
| First Air Date: | 2022, September 18 |
| Last Air Date: | 2022, September 21 |
| Status: | Ended |
| Seasons: | 1 |
| Episodes: | 3 |
| Episode Runtime: | 132 min |
| Created by: | Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Sarah Botstein |
| Countries: | United States of America |
| Production: | Florentine Films, PBS |
| Cast: | Murphy Guyer, Joe Morton, Adolf Hitler, Peter Coyote, Daniel Greene, Peter Hayes, Matthew Rhys, Carolyn McCormick, Adam Arkin, Daniel Mendelsohn, Hermann Göring, Timothy Snyder |
Overview:
Americans consider themselves a 'nation of immigrants', but as the catastrophe of the Holocaust unfolds in Europe, the U.S. prove unwilling to open its doors to more than a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of desperate refuge seekers. Through riveting firsthand testimony of witnesses and survivors who as children endured persecution, violence and flight as their families tried to escape Hitler, this three-part documentary series delves deeply into the tragic human consequences of public indifference, bureaucratic red tape and restrictive quota laws in America. Did the nation fail to live up to its ideals? This is a history to be reckoned with.