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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 · E03

The Final Solution

Miniseries · Apr 18, 1978 · 1h 30m

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E01▶

The Gathering Darkness

Apr 16, 1978 · 1h 26m

E02▶

The Road To Babi Yar

Apr 17, 1978 · 1h 31m

E03Playing

The Final Solution

Apr 18, 1978 · 1h 30m

E04▶

The Saving Remnant

Apr 19, 1978 · 1h 29m

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.

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