'The U.S. and the Holocaust,' showing on PBS, explores the reasons behind the country’s inadequate response to Germany’s persecution of Jews
the Michelangelo of American documentaries, and his longtime crew will build a detailed portrait of our troubled response to one of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern history. The airings of the second and third episodes were each postponed a day because of news coverage involving the death of the Queen Elizabeth II.
From left, Ester, Bronia and Shmiel Jäger in Poland, circa 1939. They sought to move back to the U.S., but by then there was a 10-year waiting list. “The Diary of a Young Girl,” with its hopeful optimism and girlish enthusiasm, was published posthumously. Anne, her sister and her mother, died in internment camps after their secret apartment in Amsterdam was raided by Nazis. The diary had been rescued by a gentile friend, who gave it to Otto Frank after he was liberated from Auschwitz and returned to the Netherlands to search for his wife and two daughters.
The genesis of “The U.S. and the Holocaust” goes back to 2015, when Botstein says they heard about a new exhibition being planned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., that would examine the pressures shaping American responses to Nazism, war and genocide.
She says the team spent a lot of time in the editing room thinking about how much Holocaust history to put into a film about the U.S. response to it.
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