PBS series asks hard questions about how Americans treated Jews in WWII
Ken Burns’ “The US and the Holocaust” chronicles the xenophobic and antisemitic climate in America in the years leading up to the Nazi genocide of Europe’s Jews.
A German policeman checks the identification papers of Jewish people in the Krakow, Poland, 1941.(photo credit: NATIONAL ARCHIVES IN KRAKOW/VIA JTA)ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
