description: Gerald Green's novel Holocaust, which is based on his teleplay for the 1978 NBC miniseries, seeks to put faces on the tragedy by telling the story of the experience of two German families whose lives intersect at certain points. The Dorfs are "good" Germans, loyal to the new Nazi regime, and their son Erik, a promising lawyer, finds his ambitions realized in the SS at the side of the ruthless Reynard Heydrich. The Weiss family is Jewish, also seemingly "good" Germans, but doomed under the new regime and its determination to exterminate the Jewish population.
language: English
title: Holocaust
titlecomplete: Holocaust
characters: Bertta Weiss, Anna Weiss, Rudi Weiss, Marta Dorf, Karl Weiss, Erik Dorf, Doctor Josef Weiss
genres: Drama, Jewish, Historical, War, World War II, Holocaust, Germany, Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 1986
places: Berlin, Chelmno, Warsaw, Hamburg, Kiev, Auschwitz
publisher: Duron Books