Commentary ‘The past echoes in the present’: A review of ‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’ The Statue of Liberty graces the screen more than once during the film. (Detroit Publishing Company photograph collection | Library of Congress) The three two-hour episodes of “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” a documentary by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein, debut on PBS beginning Sept. 18. Toward the end of “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” Ken Burns’ new documentary, the audience hears the last entry in the wartime diary of Anne Frank: “It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem...