Synopsis
A powerful story of bigotry, loyalty and courage which sometimes feels ripped from today’s headlines, Honorable Mr. Morgenthau is a documentary about U.S. immigration policy during the Holocaust -- as told through the lens of one American’s extraordinary experience. Throughout most of the 1930s and World War II, the United States government deliberately kept the influx of European Jews to America well below America's official immigration quota for that part of the world. This policy -- rooted in a variety of political concerns, as well as frequently transparent anti-Semitism -- left millions with no haven from the Nazi terror, and emboldened Hitler to transition from a policy of Jewish emigration to extermination. Few had a closer view of these troubling events than Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr. The only Jewish member of the Cabinet, and a devoted personal friend of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Morgenthau helped craft the New Deal economic policies that saved countless Americans from the Great Depression. Morgenthau gradually became more disturbed about what he saw around him. Finally his conscience, as well as the unexpected influence of an extraordinary woman, forced him to act -- with consequences no one could foresee. Today, when anti-Semitism and divisions over immigration are again on the rise, Honorable Mr. Morgenthau offers the thought-provoking tale of a man caught in the headlights of an unprecedented horror -- in an America that sometimes seems not unlike our own.
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Director
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Hilan Warshaw
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Producer
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Hilan Warshaw
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Production Co
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Overtone Films
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Genre
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Documentary,
History
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Original Language
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English
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Release Date (Theaters)
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Sep 13, 2024, Limited
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Runtime
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1h 35m
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