connects our nation’s history of antisemitic bigotry to the racist immigration legacy that Republicans are establishing in the present. The documentary works on several levels, resonating today, as American politicians shuffle immigrants around the country like political chess pieces. We may know this history, but seeing the contemporaneous newsreels and photos reveals the anti-Jewish sentiment that was gaining traction among the American people. Religious leaders like Father Charles Coughlin preached hatred and racial separation from the pulpit. Celebrities like Charles Lindbergh and Henry Ford, and political leaders like Calvin Coolidge - who ran on the slogan “America must be kept American” - were openly antisemitic. The Burns documentary demonstrates that the deeply rooted antisemitism that existed in Europe for generations was alive and gathering strength in the U.S. Roosevelt, saw the aerial photographs of the deportation trains and the camps. But ample evidence exists that the American government at the time, under President Franklin D. What did the United States know, and when did it know it? I asked my own parents, who were in their 20s during World War II here in America, and they said they knew nothing about the death camps until the end of the war. The only reason was that they were Jewish, and Germany, under Hitler, embraced an-cient antisemitic tropes, demonizing the Jews and targeting them for elimination. The story is especially painful through the eyes of those kids who lived through unthinkable sorrow and now are old men and women who calmly speak of the days when mothers and fathers were rounded up by Nazis and taken to extermination camps.
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However, this TV series shifts the lens and explores the story of America’s inaction as the Holocaust surged in Europe.Ī few remaining survivors of the death camps speak to the camera and remember the moments that their parents sent them away or hid them in the woods or gave them a hug goodbye that turned out to be forever. Make it a teaching moment.Īfter 70 years, you might think there’s nothing new to say about the horror of 6 million Jews killed by a political regime intent on wiping out an entire people. Please find time to see this series, and bring your teenagers along. and the Holocaust,” by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein. I implore readers to watch the new six-hour, three-part series on PBS, “The U.S.
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