Holocaust — Poland
The 1978 NBC miniseries follows the Weiss family through the Warsaw Ghetto — imprisonment, deportation to Treblinka, and the 1943 uprising — while a parallel SS officer's story shows the perpetrators' perspective.
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 Anielewicz, was the first major civilian uprising against Nazi occupation in Europe. The Holocaust miniseries was credited with introducing the word 'Holocaust' into widespread use.