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“A story of hope in a time of despair”

Holocaust (1978)

First aired April 16, 19781 season · 4 epsEnded
7.3

73 votes

DramaWar & Politics

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.

Created By

Gerald Green

Top Billed 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

Fritz Weaver

Fritz Weaver

Dr. Josef Weiss

James Woods

James Woods

Karl Weiss

Seasons

Status

Ended

Language

Czech

Type

Miniseries

Last Air Date

April 19, 1978

Networks

NBC

Production

Titus Productions

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