PBS Documentary Explores Why the U.S. Didn't Do More to Stop the Holocaust
Over the course of the six-hour documentary, viewers get a deep dive into what the U.S. did and didn't do before, during and after the Holocaust.
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Over the course of the six-hour documentary, viewers get a deep dive into what the U.S. did and didn't do before, during and after the Holocaust.
In 2015, officials of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum approached filmmaker Sarah Botstein and her colleagues, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, letting them know that they were working on an exhibition about Americans and the Holocaust. They told the filmmakers that they thought the exhibit theme might be an interesting idea for a film.
From the blog of Sheldon Kirshner at The Times of Israel
Three-part Series from Filmmakers Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein Explores the U.S. Role Before, During and After One of the Greatest Humanitarian Crises in History Narrated by Peter Coyo
Premieres Sept. 18, 19 and 20, 2022 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS Video App. Inspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibition and supported by its historical resources, the series examines the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany in the context of global antisemitism and racism, the eugenics movement in the United States and race laws in the American south.