S01E01 The Gathering Darkness
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...
Holocaust
A story of hope in a time of despair
S01E03: The Final Solution
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.
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.
Episodes
S01E02 The Road To Babi Yar
Inga is desperate to reunite with Karl, but her parents do not want to risk hiding her Jewish in-laws. Rudi runs away from their hiding place. Erik Dorf helps Heydrich plan and execute his Final...
S01E03 The Final Solution
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...
S01E04 The Saving Remnant
Erik Dorf complains to the other SS leaders that the executions of the Jews are not being efficiently done. An order is placed by Erik for Zyklon B (a lethal gas) for use at Auschwitz...
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
Deborah Norton
Marta Dorf
George Rose
Lowy
Robert Stephens
Uncle Kurt Dorf
Meryl Streep
Inga Helms Weiss
Sam Wanamaker
Moses Weiss
David Warner
Heydrich
