Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 20, 2022
In watching Episode 1 of Ken Burns' documentary series “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” on PBS, St. Louis viewers received a special treat. One of our own was prominently included in the documentary.
At approximately 35 minutes in, we meet Gunther...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 19, 2022
Within the first 10 minutes of Ken Burns' “The U.S. and the Holocaust” I knew that I was going to learn things I never knew.
Part One starts with the U.S. government’s enactment of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first time that admission...
(JTA) — Iran’s leadership has returned to Holocaust denial, its leader made clear in an interview with “60 Minutes,” after distancing itself from the phenomenon.
“Historical events should be investigated by researchers and historians,” Ebrahim...
This Sunday, the first installment of Ken Burns’ documentary “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” is set to air on Nine PBS locally from 7 to 9 p.m. The three-part, six-hour series focuses on “America's response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of...
Why didn’t the United States do more to help Europe’s Jews during the Holocaust? This question haunts the history of the United States and the Holocaust and lurks behind practically every storyline in the new film on the subject from Ken Burns, Lynn...
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Last month, at the Pan American Games in Medellin, Colombia, spectators, journalists and the event’s organizers lined up with anticipation along the side of a pool to watch a 400-meter medley. They were there to see Nora Tausz...
Wolf Gruner, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
• Published August 31, 2022
The summer of 2022 marked the 80th anniversary of the first Nazi deportation of Jewish families from Germany to Auschwitz.
Although the Nazis deported hundreds of thousands of Jewish men and women, for many places where those tragic events happened,...
Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published August 18, 2022
“My Name Is Sara” is a searing drama based on the true story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl who survived in Nazi-occupied Ukraine by posing as Ukrainian Orthodox Christian while living with a family of farmers who were unaware of her true identity....
(JTA) – A school district in suburban Fort Worth, Texas, has ordered its librarians to remove an illustrated adaptation of “The Diary of Anne Frank” from their shelves and digital libraries, along with the Bible and dozens of other books that were...
