2022-09-13 10:04:58
When Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein started working on the documentary series “The US and the Holocaust” together with the famous filmmaker. Ken Burnsthey shared the common opinion, like other Americans, that America saved only a small portion of European Jewry because it did not know that the Nazis were systematically exterminating in real time.
But, as they tell Allison Kaplan Sommer on Haaretz Weekly, an abundance of research shows that this myth has little foundation. Among those who “desperately” tried to seek asylum in the United States – and failed – was the family of Anne Frank, one of the victims of the Holocaust. most famous victims.
“We could do a lot more,” Novick said. “And that idea is at odds with the American perception that we have a higher standard.”
Earlier on the show, Haaretz editor-in-chief English Esther Solomon he reviews the life and legacy of Elizabeth II, and explains why so many British Jews respected the monarchy: “There is a strong connection between the interest of a minority community such as the Jewish community, and a stable political entity, which was the queen . final symbol.”
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