MENEMSHA FILMS

HONORABLE MR. MORGENTHAU is a new feature-length documentaryabout American immigration policy during the Holocaust, as told throughthe lens of one American’s extraordinary experience. Throughout most ofthe 1930s and World War II, the United States government actively workedto ensure that the influx of European Jews to America stayed well belowAmerica’s official immigration quota from that part of the world. Thisacknowledged policy– rooted in a variety of political concerns, as well asfrequently transparent anti-Semitism– left millions of individuals with nohaven from the Nazi terror, and emboldened Hitler to transition from apolicy of Jewish emigration to extermination.