Holocaust

A story of hope in a time of despair

1978 · 1 season · — · ★ 7.3

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.

Start from S1E1 · The Gathering Darkness

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Episodes

Season

Cast

Tom Bell

Adolf Eichmann

Joseph Bottoms

Rudi Weiss

Tovah Feldshuh

Helena Slomová

Rosemary Harris

Berta Palitz Weiss

Tony Haygarth

Heinz Müller

Michael Moriarty

Erik Dorf

N/A

Deborah Norton

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.

Holocaust

Official trailer

Episodes

1. The Gathering Darkness

2. The Road To Babi Yar

Cast

3. The Final Solution

4. The Saving Remnant