Holocaust
Holocaust
Holocaust
A story of hope in a time of despair
Drama
War & Politics
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Overview
Berlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a Christian woman, marry, is the one in which both of them and the entire Weiss family are caught up in the maelstrom of the Nazi regime, the storms of World War II and the horrors of the criminal Final Solution, the Holocaust, the Shoah; while Erik Dorf, an ambitious lawyer, undertakes his fall into hell at the hands of the sinister Reinhard Heydrich.
Status: Ended
First Air Date: 1978-04-16
Runtime: Unknown
Director: Unknown
Writer: Gerald Green
Top Cast
Tom Bell
Tom Bell
Adolf Eichmann
Joseph Bottoms
Joseph Bottoms
Rudi Weiss
Tovah Feldshuh
Tovah Feldshuh
Helena Slomová
Rosemary Harris
Rosemary Harris
Berta Palitz Weiss
Tony Haygarth
Tony Haygarth
Heinz Müller
Michael Moriarty
Michael Moriarty
Erik Dorf
Deborah Norton
Deborah Norton
Marta Dorf
George Rose
George Rose
Lowy
Robert Stephens
Robert Stephens
Uncle Kurt Dorf
Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep
Inga Helms Weiss
Sam Wanamaker
Sam Wanamaker
Moses Weiss
David Warner
David Warner
Heydrich
Episodes - Season 1
The Gathering Darkness
The Gathering Darkness
Episode 1
Berlin, Germany, 1935. The Weisses, a Jewish family, celebrate son Karl's marriage to Inga Helms, a Christian girl. When Erik Dorf is unable to find work as a lawyer, wife Marta urges him to apply for a Nazi regime job. Erik Dorf warns Dr. Weiss he should leave Germany. Karl is arrested and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp, and Dr. Weiss is deported to Poland. Erik Dorf continues to advance in the Nazi hierarchy.
The Road To Babi Yar
The Road To Babi Yar
Episode 2
Inga is desperate to reunite with Karl, but her parents do not want to risk hiding her Jewish in-laws. Rudi runs away from their hiding place. Erik Dorf helps Heydrich plan and execute his Final Solution. Moses and Dr. Weiss are caught when the Nazis overrun Poland. Helena rescues Rudi from a patrol. Berta joins her husband in the Warsaw ghetto. Rudi and Helena escape to Russia.
The Final Solution
The Final Solution
Episode 3
Rudi and Helena escape from a long procession of Jews being marched into Babi Yar. They are eventually rescued from a hayloft by a group of Jewish partisans. Erik Dorf attends a top-level Nazi conference in which Heydrich gives orders of the final solution for all the Jews in Europe. Karl Weiss has been transferred to Theresienstadt concentration camp that the Germans use to display to the Red Cross officials and representatives of neutral countries that Jews are being treated kindly. Karl learns that his fellow artists in the camp are creating propaganda paintings by day while secretly drawing images of the brutal conditions of the camp by night.
The Saving Remnant
The Saving Remnant
Episode 4
Erik Dorf complains to the other SS leaders that the executions of the Jews are not being efficiently done. An order is placed by Erik for Zyklon B (a lethal gas) for use at Auschwitz and other camps. Inga asks Müller to denounce her and have her sent to Karl at Theresienstadt. Felscher sells four of the secret drawings done by him, Frey and Karl, which depict the brutal conditions at Theresienstadt, to a Czech gendarme, which the SS get a hold of. Felscher, Frey and Karl are called in for questioning and then tortured. Karl survives and is sent to Auschwitz.
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