TELEVISION - Feb. 15, 1993

PBS Report Pulled: Amid increasing questions about its accuracy, New York’s WNET-TV, the public broadcasting station, has withdrawn a critically noted documentary from PBS about African-American soldiers who liberated Jews from concentration camps in World War II. The film, “The Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II,” first aired on PBS Nov. 11. But a recent New Republic article and a report by the American Jewish Committee have challenged the documentary’s accuracy. Questions center around which camps the 761st Tank Battalion, the all-black unit featured in the documentary, liberated. A panel of experts will review and perhaps edit the film before making it available to PBS stations again, said Harry Chancey Jr., a WNET vice president. The filmmakers were unavailable for comment.