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  • An image from 'The U.S. and the Holocaust,' directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein, showing the Statue of Liberty as seen from Ellis Island
    An image from 'The U.S. and the Holocaust,' directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein, showing the Statue of Liberty as seen from Ellis Island
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    My Grandparents’ Impossible Situation

    Taking a new look at my family’s history, after watching Ken Burns’ PBS documentary ‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’

    byCarol Ungar
  • Germans pass by the broken shop window of a Jewish-owned business that was destroyed during Kristallnacht. (US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD)
    Germans pass by the broken shop window of a Jewish-owned business that was destroyed during Kristallnacht. (US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD)
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    Reexamining FDR’s Response to Kristallnacht

    Ken Burns and others call it impressive, but the truth is less inspiring

    byRafael Medoff
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