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The Best Episodes of Holocaust Season 1

Every episode of Holocaust Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Holocaust Season 1!

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Berlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a Christian woman, marry, is the one in which both of them and the entire Weiss family are caught up in the

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Holocaust Season 1 Episode 1 - The Gathering Darkness
    7.9/10(268 votes)

    #1 - The Gathering Darkness

    S1:E1

    Berlin, Germany, 1935. The Weisses, a Jewish family, celebrate son Karl's marriage to Inga Helms, a Christian girl. When Erik Dorf is unable to find work as a lawyer, wife Marta urges him to apply for a Nazi regime job. Erik Dorf warns Dr. Weiss he should leave Germany. Karl is arrested and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp, and Dr. Weiss is deported to Poland. Erik Dorf continues to advance in the Nazi hierarchy.

    Director:Marvin J. Chomsky
    Writer:Gerald Green

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  2. Holocaust Season 1 Episode 2 - The Road To Babi Yar
    7.8/10(245 votes)

    #2 - The Road To Babi Yar

    S1:E2

    Inga is desperate to reunite with Karl, but her parents do not 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.

    Director:Marvin J. Chomsky
    Writer:Gerald Green

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  3. Holocaust Season 1 Episode 3 - The Final Solution
    7.7/10(211 votes)

    #3 - The Final Solution

    S1:E3

    Rudi and Helena escape from a long procession of Jews being marched into Babi Yar. They are eventually rescued from a hayloft by a group of Jewish partisans. Erik Dorf attends a top-level Nazi conference in which Heydrich gives orders of the final solution for all the Jews in Europe. Karl Weiss has been transferred to Theresienstadt concentration camp that the Germans use to display to the Red Cross officials and representatives of neutral countries that Jews are being treated kindly. Karl learns that his fellow artists in the camp are creating propaganda paintings by day while secretly drawing images of the brutal conditions of the camp by night.

    Director:Marvin J. Chomsky
    Writer:Gerald Green

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  4. Holocaust Season 1 Episode 4 - The Saving Remnant
    8.1/10(222 votes)

    #4 - The Saving Remnant

    S1:E4

    Erik Dorf complains to the other SS leaders that the executions of the Jews are not being efficiently done. An order is placed by Erik for Zyklon B (a lethal gas) for use at Auschwitz and other camps. Inga asks Müller to denounce her and have her sent to Karl at Theresienstadt. Felscher sells four of the secret drawings done by him, Frey and Karl, which depict the brutal conditions at Theresienstadt, to a Czech gendarme, which the SS get a hold of. Felscher, Frey and Karl are called in for questioning and then tortured. Karl survives and is sent to Auschwitz.

    Director:Marvin J. Chomsky
    Writer:Gerald Green

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The Gathering Darkness" is the best rated episode of "Holocaust" season 1. It scored 7.9/10 based on 268 votes. Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky and written by Gerald Green, it aired on 4/16/1978. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Road To Babi Yar".