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<p>Like many other Americans, I will be watching closely to see if <em>The U.S. and the Holocaust</em> honestly portrays the responsibility of American leaders, or fails to confront the difficult truths that need to be faced.</p>
<p>Like many other Americans, I will be watching closely to see if <em>The U.S. and the Holocaust</em> honestly portrays the responsibility of American leaders, or fails to confront the difficult truths that need to be faced.</p>
As the producer and director of a PBS film on America’s response to the Holocaust some years ago, I was at first delighted to learn that Ken Burns has now likewise made a film for broadcast on PBS about how our country responded to the Nazi genocide. But some advance publicity for the broadcast raises questions as to whether his film will accurately portray key issues such as U.S. refugee policy and the failure to bomb Auschwitz.
On May 1 at noon (Arizona time), there will be a virtual tribute to Gerda Weissmann Klein through the organization she co-founded, Citizenship Counts (citizenshipcounts.org). The Klein family has also