Michael Berenbaum

Michael Berenbaum is a Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at American Jewish University. He was the Managing Editor of Encyclopaedia Judaica and co-editor of The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies Have Attempted It?, and was Project Director overseeing the creation of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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A Sweeping New Documentary Examines America’s Response To The Holocaust

By Michael Berenbaum

Persecution of minorities in the lands in which they dwell happens often and in many places. Total annihilation of a people – the murder of men, women and children – is far more rare; the Shoah, the attempt to annihilate Jews everywhere on the scale envisioned and practiced by the Nazis, was without precedent, dare one say unique.