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Episode 02: The Road to Babi Yar
Holocaust
NBC  ·  90 minutes  ·  Original Broadcast: April 17, 1978

Directed by: Marvin J. Chomsky  ·  Written by: Gerald Green

Official synopsis: 1941-1942. Inga is desperate to reunite with Karl, but her parents don’t want to risk hiding her Jewish in-laws. Rudi runs away from their hiding place. Erik Dorf helps Heydrich plan and execute his Final Solution. Moses and Dr. Weiss are caught when the Nazis overrun Poland. Helena rescues Rudi from a patrol. Berta joins her husband in the Warsaw ghetto. Rudi and Helena escape to Russia.

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Cast & Characters

Fritz Weaver (Josef Weiss), Rosemary Harris (Berta Weiss), James Woods (Karl Weiss), Meryl Streep (Inga Weiss), Michael Moriarty (Erik Dorf), Joseph Bottoms (Rudi Weiss), Tovah Feldshuh (Helena), Sam Wanamaker (Moses Weiss), Ian Holm (Heinrich Himmler), David Warner (Reinhard Heydrich), Lee Montague (Uncle Sasha), Marius Goring (Heinrich Palitz), Blanche Bake (Anna Weiss), Deborah Norton (Marta Dorf), Robert Stephens (Kurt Dorf), Michael Beck (Hans Helms), Tom Bell (Adolf Eichmann), George Rose (Lowy), David Warner (Heydrich), John Bailey (Hans Frank), Michael Beck (Hans Helms), Martin Brandt (Rabbi Karsh), Bernd Hall (S.S. Guard, Buchenwald), Nikolai Hantoff (Soviet Captain), Edward Hardwicke (Biberstein), Nigel Hawthorne (Ohldendorf), Werner Kreindl (Herr Helms), Götz von Langheim (Berlin Doctor), Miriam Mahler (Woman with Infant), T.P. McKenna (Blobel), Stephan Paryla (Sgt. Foltz), Nina Sandt (Frau Helms), Walter Scheuer (Prague Policeman), Karl Schulz (Polish Policeman), Cyril Shaps (Weinberg), Bruno Thost (Kapo Melnick, Buchenwald), Joe Trummer (Czech Jew)

Episode Recap
Please note that recaps feature spoilers on the individual episode.

Berta is transported to the Warsaw Ghetto. Reunited with Dr. Weiss, she becomes a schoolteacher. Inga travels to Buchenwald, where family friend Müller (Tony Haygarth) is an officer. In exchange for transferring Karl from the quarry, where he is being worked to death, Müller forces Inga to submit to sex. Heydrich and Dorf order the commanders of the Einsatzgruppen to Russia to begin massacring Jews. Dorf finds himself forced to participate in an execution. After one of Dr. Weiss’s nurses is executed for smuggling food for the ghetto’s children, his brother Moses joins a Zionist resistance group. In occupied Kiev, Rudi and Helena witness the Babi Yar massacre, along with Dorf. Dr. Weiss and the ghetto elders learn from a spy that the Nazis are exterminating the Jews. Dorf and family enjoy Christmas around Berta’s stolen piano. They find Weiss family photos hidden in it. Dorf tells his daughter to burn them. Müller torments Karl with the knowledge that he extracts sex from Inga once a month, in exchange for passing her letters to Karl.

Heydrich and Dorf convene the Wannsee Conference, at which the “Final Solution” is planned. Rudi and Helena join up with Jewish partisans.

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