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Jan 30, 2019 · 29 January 2019. By Damien McGuinness,BBC News, Berlin. Alamy. The mini-series dramatised the Nazi genocide through the fictional story of the Weiss family. It was big-budget, American TV...
Feb 2, 2019 · Directed by Marvin Chomsky and written by Gerald Green, “Holocaust” recounts the Nazi genocide of European Jewry through two fictional families in Berlin: the Weisses, who are Jewish, and...
However, the series played a major role in public debates on the Holocaust in West Germany after its showing in 1979, and its impact has been described as "enormous". The series has been widely credited with bringing the term "Holocaust" into popular usage to describe the extermination of the European Jews.
May 8, 2024 · Antisemitism and fascist ideology are surging—and that trend is driving Hollywood’s demand for Holocaust scripts—as Jews weigh the morality of Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza. Yet the stories...
May 18, 2020 · Report this post. For millions of West Germans, it would be an evening like no other. On January 22, 1979, the first episode of Holocaust, a four-part, nine-and-a-half hour American television...
May 17, 2019 · No one had ever seen the full series, even though they were well aware of its meaning and impact on German post-war memory culture. Natalia Aleksiun (New York), Violeta Davoliūtė (Vilnius), Anna Machcewicz (Warsaw), Paweł Machcewicz (Warsaw) and Raphael Utz (Jena) share their impressions here.
Jan 23, 2019 · Directed by Marvin Chomsky and written by Gerald Green, “Holocaust” recounts the Nazi genocide of European Jewry through two fictional families in Berlin: the Weisses, who are Jewish, and the...
