Ken Burns

A film-makers post-mortem on Ken Burns and the Holocaust

Burns could have drawn on significant information uncovered on FDR and America’s response to the Holocaust but did not.use it. Op-ed.

One example: A dark blot on the non-Orthodox American Jewish leadership is its absence from the March on Washington. Burns omits it. Op-ed.

We warned you about Ken Burns misusing the Holocaust. Martha's Vineyard is Auschwitz? Op-ed.

Does Ken Burns' film portray the problematic issues or fail to confront them? Questions to think about while watching the film. Op-ed.

Burns dropped a segment which would show Hitler campaigning with the slogan, “Make Germany great again.” That would be too obvious. Op-ed.

“I understand better now the world my grandparents grew up in and how antisemitic America really was,” says co-director of new documentary.

For his next historical deep dive, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns explores America’s relationship to the Holocaust.

“Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War” takes a look at American Christian couple who smuggled hundreds of Jews to safety.