2 real historical locations · Poland
A landmark 1978 American miniseries following two families — one Jewish, one a rising SS officer — across the entire Nazi period from 1935 to 1945. Enormously influential at the time, it introduced millions of viewers to the Holocaust and prompted West Germany's first national broadcast on the subject.
CinemaMapped has mapped 2 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Poland.
The 1978 NBC miniseries follows the Weiss family through the Warsaw Ghetto — imprisonment, deportation to Treblinka, and the 1943 uprising — while a parallel...
The Warsaw Ghetto held over 400,000 Jews from October 1940. Mass deportations to Treblinka began in July 1942; by September 1942, approximately 300,000 had been killed. The April 1943 uprising, led by Mordecai Anielew...
View location →Weiss family members are deported to Sobibor — one of the six Operation Reinhard death camps — where nearly all arrivals were immediately gassed upon arrival.
Sobibor operated from May 1942 to October 1943 and killed approximately 170,000 to 250,000 Jews. It was one of three camps established under Operation Reinhard, the Nazi plan to exterminate all Jews in occupied Poland...
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