"U.S. AND THE HOLOCAUST": AUSCHWITZ AND ART
Watching Ken Burns' recent PBS documentary, "U.S. and the Holocaust," is an experience well worth our time. The reason: while most viewers are familiar with the basic facts of the Holocaust and its horrific imagery, there's a lot we don't know after all these decades: namely, the role America played ( or didn't play ) in saving Jews from the Nazis. But there's another, more personal part to be learned as well, separate from the Jewish relatives whom we may have lost during this period. Thus, "U.S. and the Holocaust" enabled yours truly to revive the experience of visiting Auschwitz some twenty years ago and also gave me new and startling insights into the images I saw there. Such images have become iconic, abundant in media sources like articles, books, newscasts, photographs and films. Consider the archway to the camp's entrance which reads, " Work Liberates" in German, the filthy barricks where Jewish prisoners slept