The U.S. and the Holocaust

Yearning to Breathe Free (1938 — 1942)

Directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Sarah Botstein
TV-14
S1 • E2    Sep 20, 2022    2h 18m
9.08.0
As World War II begins, Americans are divided over whether to intervene against Nazi Germany. Some individuals and organizations work tirelessly to help refugees escape. Germany invades the USSR and secretly begins the mass murder of European Jews.

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Cast of Yearning to Breathe Free (1938 — 1942)

  • Peter CoyoteSelf - Narrator (voice)
  • Daniel MendelsohnSelf
  • Peter HayesSelf
  • Deborah LipstadtSelf
  • Guy SternSelf
  • Daniel GreeneSelf
  • Rebecca ErbeldingSelf
  • Eva GeiringerSelf
  • Sol MessingerSelf
  • Nell Irvin PainterSelf
  • Timothy SnyderSelf
  • Adam ArkinSelf (voice)
  • Murphy GuyerSelf (voice)
  • Carolyn McCormickSelf (voice)
  • Joe MortonSelf (voice)
  • Matthew RhysSelf (voice)
  • Adolf HitlerSelf (archive footage)
  • Hermann GöringSelf (archive footage)
  • Franklin D. RooseveltSelf (archive footage)
  • Eleanor RooseveltSelf (archive footage)

 

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