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.
Episodes
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Cast
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
Timothy Snyder
Self
Adam Arkin
Self (voice)
Murphy Guyer
Self (voice)
Carolyn McCormick
Self (voice)
Joe Morton
Self (voice)
Matthew Rhys
Self (voice)
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Hermann Göring
Self (archive footage)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)
Eleanor Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)
Stephen Wise
Self (archive footage)
Julius Stern
Self (archive footage)
Daniel Okrent
Self
Susan Hilsenrath
Self
Creators
Images
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