"The U.S. and The Holocaust" is a production of Flo rentine Films and WETA Washington\, D.C. Directed \;by Ken Burns\, Lyn n Novick and Sarah Botstein. Telescript by Geoffrey C. Ward. Produced by S arah \;Botstein\, Lynn Novick\, Ken Burns and Mike Welt. Edited by Tri cia Reidy\, ACE and Charles E. Horton. Co-Producer is Lucas B. Frank. Orig inal music produced by Johnny Gandelsman. Cinematography by Buddy \;Sq uires\, ASC and Wojciech Staroń\, PSC. Narrated by Peter Coyote. Voice s include Adam Arkin\, Hope \;Davis\, Paul Giamatti\, Olivia Gilliatt\ , Elliott \;Gould\, Murphy Guyer\, Werner Herzog\, Josh Lucas\, Caroly n \;McCormick\, Joe Morton\, Liam Neeson\, Matthew Rhys\, Meryl Streep \, Bradley Whitford\, and Helena \;Zengel. The Executive in Charge for WETA is John F. Wilson. Executive Producer is Ken Burns.
\n\nRabbi Saul F. Oresky \;has served as Mishkan Torah&rsquo\;s rabbi since August 2017. He is passionate about Jewish education for students of all ages and has been teaching continuously since he was 16 in area-wide post- Bar/Bat Mitzvah programs\, in religious schools\, and in tutoring well ove r 300 B&rsquo\;nai Mitzvah students. He hails from the Washington\, DC are a. Rabbi Saul is a 2013 graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Colle ge (RRC) in Wyncote\, PA. Heleft his Federal government job as a technical writer-editor at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington\, DC\, in Ju ly 2014 after a 24-year career there and after 12 years in writing-editing positions in private industry before that. Rabbi Saul&rsquo\;s first pulp it was in Boardman\, Ohio\, serving for three years as the rabbi of congre gation Ohev Tzedek-Shaarei Torah (now part of Congregation Ohev Beth Sholo m in Youngstown). He is glad to be back in the congregation in which he an d Phyllis have been members since 1978 and where he began teaching in 1975 .
\nJeffrey Richter is a history professor at Georg e Mason University and specializes in the history of Germany\, the Holocau st\, and genocide. From 1998 to 2010 he served as a historian in the Justi ce Department's Nazi-hunting unit\, the Office of Special Investigations.< /p>\n
Esther Safron Foer \;served as the executive director of the Sixth &\; I historic synagogue for nearly 10 years\, re vitalizing the cultural relevance of the historic building. Before taking over at Sixth &\; I\, she was the president of \;FM Strategic Commu nications\, a public relations firm that advised top law firms and Fortune 500 companies. \;Her first job in politics was on the staff of the Ge orge McGovern campaign for president in 1972. In 2019\, Foer published her memoir\, "I Want You To Know We're Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir\," which chronicles her search for information about her family's history in Poland during World War II. The book was named a New York Times Editors' Choice and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award.
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