Holocaust
tv show

4 total episodes
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1 seasons
A story of hope in a time of despair
First Aired April 16, 1978
Genres:
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.

The Final Solution
Season 1 - Episode 3 - 1h 27m
Air Date
April 18, 1978
Overview
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.
Guest Stars
Michael Beck
as
Hans Helms
Ian Holm
as
Heinrich Himmler
Lee Montague
as
Uncle Sasha
Isolde Barth
as
Eva
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Käte Jaenicke
as
Frau Lowy
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Peter Garell
as
Yuri
Vernon Dobtcheff
as
Karp
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Jeremy Levy
as
Aaron Feldman
John Bailey
as
Hans Frank
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Vera Borek
as
Nadya
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Wolfgang Lesowsky
as
Engleman
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Jan Odle
as
Aaron's Classmate