Arlington, VA. September 22, 2022 – The new three-part documentary “The U.S. and the Holocaust” directed and produced by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein exploring America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises in history, is now available to watch in its entirety on the PBS Documentaries Prime Video Channel.
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Franklin Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., November 9, 1943. Courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration
The U.S. and the Holocaust
Streaming Date: September 22, 2022
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Combining the first-person accounts of Holocaust witnesses and survivors and interviews with leading historians and writers, “The U.S. and the Holocaust” dispels competing myths that Americans either were ignorant of the unspeakable persecution that Jews and other targeted minorities faced in Europe or that they looked on with callous indifference. The film tackles a range of questions that remain essential to our society today, including how racism influences policies related to immigration and refugees, as well as how governments and people respond to the rise of authoritarian states that manipulate history and facts to consolidate power.
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