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''Holocaust'' is an American television miniseries broadcast in four parts in 1978 on the NBC television network. The series tells the story of the Holocaust from the perspective of the (fictional) Weiss family of German Jews and that of a rising member of the SS, who gradually becomes a merciless war criminal. ''Holocaust'' highlighted numerous important events which occurred up to and during World War II, such as ''Kristallnacht'', the creation of Jewish ghettos and later, the use of gas chambers. Although the miniseries won several awards and received critical acclaim, it was criticized by some, including noted Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel, who described it as "untrue and offensive." The series was presented in four parts: * Part 1: The Gathering Darkness (original airdate: April 16, 1978) * Part 2: The Road to Babi Yar (original airdate: April 17, 1978) * Part 3: The Final Solution (original airdate: April 18, 1978) * Part 4: The Saving Remnant (original airdate: April 19, 1978) ==Plot== A German Jewish family, the Weisses, consists of Dr. Josef Weiss (Fritz Weaver), the father; Berta Weiss (Rosemary Harris), the mother and talented pianist; Karl Weiss (James Woods), an artist who is married to a Christian woman named Inga Helms-Weiss (Meryl Streep); Rudi Weiss (Joseph Bottoms), an independent, rebellious soccer player; Anna Weiss (Blanche Baker), the young daughter; and Moses Weiss (Sam Wanamaker), Josef's brother and a chemist from Warsaw. Throughout the series, each member of the Weiss family experiences hardships and are ultimately led to a terrible fate, with the exception of Rudi and Inga. Dr. Weiss is a respected doctor (GP) from Berlin. After losing his right to treat "Aryan" patients, he is deported to Poland for being a foreign citizen. He becomes a member of the Judenrat (Jewish council) for the Warsaw ghetto. Josef is sent to Auschwitz along with his wife for attempting to save Jews from the Warsaw ghetto's liquidation process. At Auschwitz, he is assigned to road labor for Uncle Kurt (of Erik Dorf; see below), who is trying to save several Jews by having them work for him. Uncle Kurt then is punished for using Jews when he shouldn't have and the Jews on his crew (including Josef) are all sent to the gas chambers. Mrs. Berta Weiss, after her husband's deportation, survives with the help of Inga and her family. She is later deported to the Warsaw ghetto to be reunited with Josef. Berta then obtains a job teaching at the school before eventually being sent to the gas chamber (at Auschwitz). Anna Weiss, unresponsive after being raped by German soldiers earlier in the series (New Years Eve, 1939), is sent to a sanitarium in Hadamar and killed by carbon monoxide poisoning as part of the Nazi Action T4. Karl Weiss is arrested and sent to Buchenwald. Later, a family friend of Inga's, Heinz Muller, has Karl transferred to Theresienstadt where he works in the art studio. He and the other artists secretly make pictures depicting the reality of the Ghetto. When the pictures are discovered, the artists are tortured by the SS and all but Karl die. Karl is then (after hearing of his wife's pregnancy) transferred to Auschwitz and put on the ''Sonderkommandos'', he finds out that both of his parents were taken to Auschwitz. Subsequently, Karl's health deteriorates badly and he dies the day Auschwitz is liberated. Rudi Weiss, having run away from Berlin, goes to Czechoslovakia, where he meets Helena Slomova (Tovah Feldshuh). They escape together to the Ukraine where they fight for years with Jewish partisans, led by Uncle Sasha, a doctor who lost his family earlier in the war. After fighting against SS and Ukrainian soldiers, Rudi is ultimately captured, and Helena is shot and killed. Rudi wakes up in Sobibor where he meets Leon Feldhandler and Alexander Pechersky and escapes, during the uprising. Rudi decides to travel alone back through Europe and find his family. Moses Weiss owns a pharmacy in Warsaw. When Josef and the Lowys are deported, he finds a place for them to stay. Like his brother, he is put on the Judenrat. After hearing that the SS are planning to kill all Jews in Europe, he starts a resistance movement. This movement fights against the SS in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, after receiving weapons from Christian Poles. They are initially successful, but the SS discovers their secret hiding places and uses gas to force them to walk out and face the wall, where they are all shot. Karl's wife, Inga, eventually sacrifices her freedom to join him in Theresienstadt where he is commissioned as an artist. Desperately trying throughout most of the series to reach Karl in various camps, Inga can only get letters through to him if she performs sexual favors for Heinz Muller. Threatening to keep her husband involved in heavy physical work if she does not acquiesce to his requests, the SS sergeant rapes her. After arriving at Theresienstadt to reunite with Karl, Inga becomes pregnant with his child. A fellow artist sells Karl's paintings of horrific concentration camp scenes, the Gestapo finds them, tortures the artists and when Karl refuses to aid the Nazi investigation, he is sent to Auschwitz. At the end of the series, Rudi meets Inga in the liberated Thresienstadt, later revealing that he found out what happened to his parents and Karl at Auschwitz. Inga reveals that despite Karl telling her not to, she had the baby and named him Josef (after her father-in-law). Inga decided to take her child back to Berlin, to reunite with her family. The fate of Rudi is unknown at the denouement of the series, but he is offered a job smuggling orphaned Jewish children into Palestine. The series ends with Rudi playing football with Jewish Greek children. Erik Dorf (Michael Moriarty), a lawyer from Berlin, is the focus of the other main storyline in the series. At the urging of his ambitious wife, Marta, the unemployed and apolitical Dorf joins the SS, becoming the personal clerk of Reinhard Heydrich. Dorf rises through the ranks of the SS, becoming famous for developing legalistic justifications and euphemisms for the anti-Jewish campaign. Coordinating mass murder burdens his conscience at first, but his ruthlessness escalates as he discovers that ideological fervor gains him prestige. This backfires after a feud with field SS officers, who resent carrying out the gruesome tasks he mandates in Berlin, results in an anonymous letter to Heydrich accusing him of communist sympathies that stunts his career. After the assassination of Heydrich, Dorf, without his protector and now in disfavour with superiors, is eventually put in charge of major extermination operations at Nazi extermination camps. Dorf continues to follow orders, with himself and his wife seeing it as justification for the orders he followed before and ultimately removing evidence of his misdeeds. After the war ends, he is captured by the United States Army, and told that he will be tried for war crimes. Dorf decides to follow the example of many other Nazi officials and commits suicide by taking a cyanide pill. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Holocaust (miniseries)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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