Thursday, 9 February 2023
6:30-8:00 p.m. EST
United Nations Headquarters, New York
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A screening of a special 40-minute version of "The U.S. and the Holocaust", a film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein will be followed by a discussion with Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. The documentary combines first-person accounts of Holocaust witnesses and survivors and interviews with leading historians and writers. Inspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibition and supported by its historical resources, the film 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. The documentary tackles a range of questions that remain essential to our society today, including how racism influences policies related to immigration and refugees as well as how governments and people respond to the rise of authoritarian states that manipulate history and facts to consolidate power.
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