‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’ Review: Ken Burns’ New PBS Doc Is Devastating — and Distressingly Topical Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein's six-part PBS documentary explores what the United States did and could have done in response to the Nazi atrocities of the Holocaust. Airdate:Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah BotsteinThe U.S. and the Holocaust, an expansion of 2016’sThe Roosevelts: An Intimate History, all while standing devastatingly on its own.has a lot of groundwork to lay, and I’m suspecting there will be at least some viewers who are impatient to jump into the multi-tiered tragedy without the historical refreshers...