Why Ken Burns Is Exposing America's Evils During the Holocaust

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Why Ken Burns Is Exposing America's Evils During the Holocaust

https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-ken-burns-is-exposing-americas-evils-during-the-holocaust?via=twitter_page

I will not work on a more important film," says Ken Burns about The U.S. and the Holocaust, a three-part, six-hour documentary (Sept. 18, PBS) about America's response to the Nazis' genocide. A comprehensive examination of both President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's actions and the anti-Semitic and anti-immigration climate in which he operated, Burns' latestco-directed by long-time collaborators Lynn Novick and Sarah Botsteinseeks to grasp why we chose to admit so few Jewish refugees in the 1930s and 1940s, and whether we could have done more to stop, or at least slow down, Hitler's "Final Solution." The answers it comes up with are not always flattering, complicating our understanding of the country's WWII legacy. Yet per Burns tradition, they're handled with enlightening and affecting nuance and empathy.

An in-depth study of fascism, intolerance, and the push-pull between ideals and complex political/social realities, The U.S. and the Holocaust, buoyed by testimonials from scholars and survivors of the Holocaust, is informative and heartbreaking in equal measure. For Novick, it's also an inquiry that's apt to shock many.

"We've been aware, with every film we've made, how much each filmas Mark Twain might sayrhymes in the present," offers Burns. "Because human nature doesn't change."

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You mean FDR may be exposed for what he really was and really stood for???

A globalist with MARXISTS' visions of single party rule for the United States of America?

Say it ain't so.....
Big Bad Wolf. OG...2002

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Slight adjustment to our @PBS broadcast schedule for The US and the Holocaust. Ep. 1 is Sunday night 9/18 and then ep. 2 is Tuesday 9/20 and ep. 3 Wednesday 9/21. Entire series will stream timed to premiere on 9/10. #USandTheHoloocaustPBS

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Ken Burns on His New Documentary 'The U.S. and the Holocaust'

https://time.com/6213028/ken-burns-u-s-and-the-holocaust/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_term=ideas_media&linkId=181640538
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KEN BURNS' DOCUMENTARY BRINGS LOCAL SURVIVOR FACE-TO-FACE WITH HER MOTHER

Seven minutes into watching the first episode of Ken Burns' documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust, 91-year-old Holocaust survivor Eleanor Hambury Must saw film footage of a young woman in profile, sitting on a balcony in Germany with her embroidery. The young woman then turns, looks directly into the camera with a broad smile, and returns to her embroidery.

The young woman is Eleanor's mother when she was pregnant with her.

"I was just blown away," says Eleanor, who watched the premiere of the episode on Sept. 18. "It kind of put me in turmoil. Just because you don't expect to see your mother. She died in 1935. And that's a long time ago."

https://daytonjewishobserver.org/2022/09/ken-burns-documentary-brings-local-survivor-face-to-face-with-her-mother/
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