United States and the Holocaust it is also, in part, a positive story. There are heroes like John Pehle, the lawyer whom FDR appointed in 1944 to lead the It was the Refugee Board, which Burns described as “the single most important entity in saving human lives as the Holocaust unfolds.” The documentary uncovers the lesser-known history of the junta and how it used back channels to help Jews in more indirect ways, for example by changing US laws so that border officials in countries like Spain could be bribed to agree. Jewish refugees there. Pehle saved thousands of lives,...