Holocaust
Added 9/29/2009
Excellent 5 part mini series. This follows the family of a Jewish doctor beginning in Berlin just as the Nazi regime is raising to power. Deportation, Warsaw ghetto, concentration camps, gassing, fighting in the resistance, the story follows each family member. While it cannot actually show the horror, it does give an excellent account of what happened and the progression from prewar life to the ghetto and then the death camps. It also follows a German man who needs a job so joins the SS and slowly becomes a very cold blooded planner of Jewish extermination.
The cast is top notch and acting excellent. I usually don't watch movies twice but I am now watching this series for the second time. I like the way it is set up as a series and I watch one episode per evening. This is a must have for the video library of anyone who has an interest in the happenings of that time.
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Much better than I thought it might be...
Added 7/25/2009
At first I was concerned that a TV mini-series made in the late 1970's just wouldn't hold up to 2009 "entertainment" standards, if that is the right word for such a painful topic.
But I was moved by how truly affecting it really is. Although it is a story that deals with the lives of I think 8 different characters, and therefore suffers from a slight loss in character identification, it remains a powerful film. The production values are superb, most of the acting is outstanding, and from what I know of that period in history (via Richard Evans' great books and others I've read) it manages to convey, accurately, the main events through the characters' experiences, and without undue exposition. Having said that, I think one's appreciation of the of the story can be helped by knowing the basic outline of the major events of the period, and the prime players in the Third Reich before watching the film. Recommended!
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The holocaust
Added 5/13/2009
I first watched this mini sereis when it was first released on TV back in the late 1970's. I found it extremely moving then, and it has not lost any of the powerful messages thirty years on. I thoroughly recommend it.
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Wonderful!!
Added 4/27/2009
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Holocaust
Added 4/25/2009
This is a very well done TV mini-series from 1978. I remember seeing it then and being quite moved by the acting and the historical accuracy. I often use it to teach the Holocaust to my own students. It is a piece that should be used in every classroom. Minor flaws with the film are that there are no subtitles available. (The cast is made up of German, Polish, Russian, British, Hungarian, and American actors. It is sometimes difficult to understand the dialog without the guide of a glossary of terms.) Some of the acting is a little overdone, but overall, all of the characters are made believable. The historical locations become vivid, also, so much so, that students want to visit these places in 2009. I would highly recommend this film for those just beginning the study of the Holocaust. This movie contains information that cannot be found in many others of it's genre. Kristallnacht, the beginning of the camps, the suffering of the families, Zyklon-B, the ghettos, etc. are topics often never mentioned in later movies. This movie lives true to its original plotline of being "The first effective docu/drama about the Holocaust!"
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Contains Serious Distortions of Historical Events
Added 6/15/2009
Well do I remember this series on television over thirty years ago. My younger self came away with the impression that Jewish sufferings were placed above those of other victims of WWII. (I had never seen the media pay this much attention to non-Jewish genocides, and haven't to this day). Indeed, the 1970's was the time that placed the Holocaust in a dominant position in US culture and education. See Peczkis Listmania: FORGOTTEN HOLOCAUST...
The series itself contains ludicrous, Polonophobic falsifications of history. But don't take my word for it. Please click on the following analysis done by a Polish Jew who actually went through the Holocaust, and read my review of it: Our Answer to T.V.'s Holocaust, an anti-Polish Show: A Proud Polish-Jew Tells it Like it Is
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holocaust
Added 1/29/2009
I was reading this book about the holocaust; this guy named Hitler is really mean people who don't like the Jewish people. He would treat people really bad, that don't have blond hair and blue eyes by not giving them food or anything. The people that got treated really bad had more work to do and if they did something bad they would get burn or shot. They would separate the girls from the boys they would each be in a different side. Also they would separate the families. They would die without food and water. There were billions of people that would died and get burned or berried underground. They would also take the girls and guys to the shower room and they thought it was water but it was only gas and that's how they would die. If the girls would get pregnant they would kill them. That's all I know about the holocaust right now.
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We have to remember
Added 9/22/2007
I saw the miniseries HOLOCAUST as a child. I couldn't believe that people could be so cruel. I never forgot it.
I also remember the heroism. You know, it really is an uplifting film.
I lent the tape to a teacher friend of mine, and her students got it. They asked questions. They wanted to learn more about this period in history. They wanted to know more about man's inhumanity to man.
I'm going to keep lending that tape. I want people to learn.
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