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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3396 in VHS
• Published on: 1991
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Formats: Color, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of tapes: 2
• Running time: 450 minutes

Customer Reviews

THE HOLOCAUST
I watched this on network tv when it premiered. It's even harder to watch it today. With twenty years of ethnic cleansings, and smaller holocausts under our belts, one of the major themes of the story holds even truer. If we aren't very very careful any of us can become a killer.

I would give this ten stars if I could
Suspend your disbelief that one family could be involved in every major event of the Holocaust. The point is this is an outstanding mini-series with performances by actors that have gone on to become some of the best of their generation, most notably Meryl Streep. I first saw it as a TV mini-series and have revisited it several times in the intervening years. Each time I watch the series, I see new facets within the production that I did not focus on previously or come away with a clearer understanding of events during this horrific time period. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! My only complaint is that it had never been released on CD in the US. I would love to be able to adapt this mini series for classroom use.

Contains Serious Distortions of Historical Events
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