The U.S. and the Holocaust(2022)

“A history to be reckoned with.”

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.

Created by

Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Sarah Botstein