“The most important work we will ever do. I will never work on a more important film.” – Ken Burns
“The U.S. and the Holocaust explores and explodes myths Americans have harbored to protect themselves from the truth about the nature of their society and behavior of their government during the event that was arguably the world’s greatest humanitarian crisis.” – Haaretz
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein’s documentary series, The U.S. and the Holocaust, examines how the American people and their leaders responded to one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century, and how this catastrophe challenged their identity as a nation of immigrants and the very ideals of their democracy.
