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Holocaust: How a US TV series changed Germany
The mini-series dramatised the Nazi genocide through the fictional story of the Weiss family It was big-budget, American TV starring Meryl Streep. And in 1979 the mini-series Holocaust transformed ...
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40 years ago, an American miniseries changed the way Germans thought about their history. Now ‘Holocaust’ is being shown there again.
The four-part drama, starring a young Meryl Streep, burned itself into the consciences of its millions of German viewers. BERLIN (JTA) — For Sigmount Koenigsberg, the most searing scene in the U ...
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Marvin Chomsky, director of the influential TV miniseries ‘Holocaust,’ dies at 92
(JTA) – Marvin Chomsky often relayed one searing memory from the set of his 1978 miniseries “Holocaust.” While shooting sequences in Austria to dramatize the mass murders of Jews both at ...