Desc: Not Idly By: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust: Directed by Pierre Sauvage. With Peter Bergson. Most Americans--even many American Jews--believe that we didn't know. Many assume that we couldn't have done anything about the massacre of the Jews of Europe during World War II even if we had known. Meet Peter Bergson. A militant Jew from pre-Israel Palestine, Bergson led a controversial American effort to fight the Holocaust. This is his testimony.