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About
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.
First Aired
Sep 18, 2022
Last Aired
Sep 21, 2022
Seasons
1
Episodes
3
Network
PBS
Studio
Florentine Films, PBS
Keywords
mass murder
holocaust (shoah)
immigration
world war ii
nazi
antisemitism
miniseries
racism
genocide
eugenics
third reich (iii reich 1933-45)
nsdap (nazi party)
1940s
historical reenactment
1930s
political documentary
adolf hitler
jewish history
war crime
20th century
american history
war documentary
historical documentary
Cast
Full credits →P
Peter Coyote
Self - Narrator (voice)
D
Deborah Lipstadt
Self
T
Timothy Snyder
Self
A
Adam Arkin
Self (voice)
M
Murphy Guyer
Self (voice)
C
Carolyn McCormick
Self (voice)
J
Joe Morton
Self (voice)
M
Matthew Rhys
Self (voice)
A
Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
H
Hermann Göring
Self (archive footage)
F
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)
E
Eleanor Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)
