The U.S. and the Holocaust

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Peter Coyote Self - Narrator

Daniel Mendelsohn Self - Writer

Peter Hayes Self - Historian

Deborah Lipstadt Self - Historian

Meryl Streep Eleanor Roosevelt