The U.S. and the Holocaust

Name: The U.S. and the Holocaust
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2022-09-18
Rating: 8.3
Cast: Peter Coyote, Daniel Mendelsohn, Peter Hayes, Deborah Lipstadt, Meryl Streep

Created by Ken Burns

Documentary

20221 season8.3

Ended

Overview

Inspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibition and supported by its historical resources, this documentary 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.