The U.S. and the Holocaust
A history to be reckoned with.
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.
Created by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein
Network: PBS
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Peter Coyote Self - Narrator (voice) - Daniel Mendelsohn Self
- Peter Hayes Self
- Deborah Lipstadt Self
- Guy Stern Self
- Daniel Greene Self
- Rebecca Erbelding Self
- Eva Geiringer Self
- Sol Messinger Self
- Nell Irvin Painter Self
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Timothy Snyder Self -
Adam Arkin Self (voice)
