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The U.S. and the Holocaust

Documentary
8.3·2022·1 Season

Inspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibition and supported by its historical resources, ...

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Episodes (3)

Cast

Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote

Self - Narrator

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Daniel Mendelsohn

Self - Writer

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Peter Hayes

Self - Historian

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Deborah Lipstadt

Self - Historian

Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Daniel Greene

Self - Historian

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Guy Stern

Self - Hildesheim, U.S. Army

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Rebecca Erbelding

Self - Historian

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.