The U.S. and the Holocaust
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.
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Peter Coyote
Daniel Mendelsohn
Peter Hayes
Deborah Lipstadt
Guy Stern
Daniel Greene
Rebecca Erbelding
Eva Geiringer
Sol Messinger
Nell Irvin Painter
Timothy Snyder
Adam Arkin
Murphy Guyer
Carolyn McCormick
Joe Morton
Matthew Rhys
Adolf Hitler
Hermann Göring
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Stephen Wise
Julius Stern
