The American Experience by directed by Martin OstrowCall Number: DVD 940.53 AME
ISBN: U.S. COPYRIGHT OFFICE
Publication Date: 1994
Complex social and political factors shaped Americas response to the Holocaust, from Kristallnacht in 1938 through the liberation of the death camps in 1945. For a short time, the US had an opportunity to open its doors but instead erected a "paper wall," a bureaucratic maze that prevented all but a few Jewish refugees from entering the country.