Holocaust - Season 1 - Eps 1: 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 for a Nazi regime job. Erik Dorf warns Dr. Weiss he should leave Germany. Karl is arrested and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp, and Dr. Weiss is deported to Poland. Erik Dorf continues to advance in the Nazi hierarchy.
About Holocaust
Title: Holocaust
First Air Date: 1978-04-16
Last Air Date: 1978-04-19
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.3/10 (from 72 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 1
Total Episodes: 4
Network: NBC
Genres: Drama, War & Politics
Production Companies: Titus Productions
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.
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
