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Holocaust

“A story of hope in a time of despair”

1978Drama · War & Politics

First aired

April 16, 1978

7.3

TMDB Score

73% match · 76 votes

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S01 · E01

The Gathering Darkness

Miniseries · Apr 16, 1978 · 1h 26m

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The Gathering Darkness

Apr 16, 1978 · 1h 26m

E02▶

The Road To Babi Yar

Apr 17, 1978 · 1h 31m

E03▶

The Final Solution

Apr 18, 1978 · 1h 30m

E04▶

The Saving Remnant

Apr 19, 1978 · 1h 29m

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.

About the Series

DramaWar & Politics

Synopsis

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.

CreatorGerald Green