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Online Exhibitions The NBC miniseries Uprising raises awareness of the Warsaw ghetto and its resistance movement. The Holocaust was primarily a European story in which the Jews of that continent were targeted for total destruction. The Holocaust, the state-sponsored persecution and murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945, is history's most extreme example of antisemitism. www.ushmm.org /museum/exhibit/online   (3797 words)

Holocaust (miniseries) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Holocaust was an Emmy Award-winning television miniseries broadcast in four parts in 1978 on the NBC television network. It tells the story of the Holocaust from the perspective of the Weiss family of German Jews, and from the point of view of a German family where the husband is a rising SS member, who gradually becomes a merciless, bloodthirsty war criminal. Holocaust was broadcast in four parts from April 16 to April 19. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Holocaust_(miniseries)   (496 words)

Holocaust While Holocaust was a smaller ratings success than was Roots (it drew a 49 audience share to Roots's 66), NBC estimated after the 1979 rebroadcast that as many as 220 million viewers in the United States and Europe had seen the series. Holocaust, produced by Herbert Brodkin, contrasts the interlocking fates of two German families, the Jewish Weisses of the subtitle and the Nazi Dorfs. Such was the public response that West Germany promptly canceled the statute of limitations for Nazi war crimes, formerly scheduled to expire at the end of 1979. www.museum.tv /archives/etv/H/htmlH/holocaust/holocaust.htm   (688 words)

holocaust TV miniseries, punk rock, comics, and video games are no substitute for the experience of reading eyewitness accounts of the nazi atrocities or great youth oriented books like Number the Stars, of viewing the photographs Margraet Bourke White took of the liberation of the camps or Nazi film footage in Night and Fog. Because of this, Holocaust education, clearly a site of emotional pedagogy, has tended to overlay the emotional register with a discourse of remembrance, which may be safer, but which often sidesteps the complex connections between memory, feeling and ethics. Heinrich Himmler was the chief architect of the holocaust. www.auburnsem.org /holocaust.htm   (4194 words)

Holocaust (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It was in this sense that the term "nuclear holocaust" came to be used after World War II, to refer to the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the anticipated result of a nuclear war and nuclear winter. Prussian Holocaust, infrequently used term for sacking of Leuven during WWI and WWII evacuation of Germans from East Prussia. Holocaust of the un-born (abortion), is a term used in combination with pro-life activism argument. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Holocaust_(disambiguation)   (531 words)

Post-Modern Judaism: Religious Responses to the Holocaust Eschatological implications of Holocaust as "birthpangs of Messiah." Although the Holocaust was the greatest catastrophe in its proportions, it was not unique in its quality. The correct response to the Holocaust is to reaffirm the vitality of traditional Judaism and Zionism. www.ucalgary.ca /~elsegal/RelS369/B06b_PostModern-Holocaust.html   (599 words)

Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning Shandler traces the widespread use of the word "holocaust" to 1978, the year that the television miniseries "Holocaust" aired and was watched by half the American population. The "Holocaust" miniseries was seen by hundreds of millions of people in the late 1970s and early '80s, and as big as the impact was in the United States, the impact abroad, especially in what was then West Germany, was much larger. Some people looked at the "Holocaust" miniseries and said, "It's very sentimental, and the style of storytelling is very banal, and it's not nearly as sophisticated as some of the plays that are produced in theaters in Germany. www.fathom.com /feature/35376/index.html   (2367 words)

Mel Gibson Plans TV Miniseries on Holocaust - New York Times Gibson's television production company is developing a four-hour miniseries for ABC based on the self-published memoir of Flory A. Van Beek, a Dutch Jew whose gentile neighbors hid her from the Nazis but who lost several relatives in concentration camps. Gibson will act in the miniseries, nor is it certain yet that his name, rather than his company's, will be publicly attached to the final product, according to several people involved in developing it. Gibson's father, Hutton Gibson, has repeatedly denied that the Holocaust happened, saying before the release of "Passion of the Christ," for example, that accounts of the Holocaust were mostly "fiction" and asserting that there were more Jews in Europe after World War II than before. www.nytimes.com /2005/12/06/arts/television/06cnd-gibson.html?ei=5090&en=e9636446874c3b28&ex=1291525200&adxnnl=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1133913433-qs8DH0QreCUVey4MPzHxnw   (840 words)

Holocaust is bigger than sweeps, alas The Holocaust loomed large on TV this past weekend, with the premiere of heavily promoted films like the ABC miniseries "Anne Frank" (Sunday and Monday, 9-11 p.m. Five films about the Holocaust in one year is a lot, and that's not including rebroadcasts like last month's PBS presentation of "Schindler's List" or the voluminous documentary footage on cable networks like the History Channel, which has a six-hour miniseries, "Hitler's Holocaust," scheduled in June. Holocaust dramatizations are a powerful tool for promoting messages of tolerance and unity to a country that could certainly stand to learn a thing or two on those subjects. www.medialifemagazine.com /news2001/may01/may21/1_mon/news4monday.html   (627 words)

PHSchool.com - eTeach Essay Holocaust literature is relevant in almost any English class because of the depth of emotion as well as the historical implications of the subject matter. After all, the Holocaust is an example of what happens when prejudice and stereotyping go unchecked, when people allow their ignorance and their need to scapegoat overcome decency and common sense. Holocaust literature has the capacity not only to open students' minds to compelling, important stories about real people, but also to educate students about one of the most important historical events of the twentieth century. www.phschool.com /eteach/language_arts/2002_05/essay.html   (3531 words)

TRIO: Pressroom The top ten miniseries of all time were selected by TRIO¹s "blue ribbon" panel which included television executives, critics, producers, directors and actors. The documentary counts down the top ten miniseries of all time that have made the biggest and most lasting cultural impact on our society and the genre itself. Holocaust is an award-winning series that chronicles the Weiss family and their struggle to survive the horror of Hitler¹s reign in Nazi Germany. www.triotv.com /corp/press/2003/pr20031022b.html   (501 words)

AEI - Short Publications Thus in the first official federal definition of the Holocaust, the crucial distinction between those killed as part of a unique and racially motivated genocide and those killed as part of Nazi brutality is lost. Our intervention may have been justified, but Kosovo was not the Holocaust and the Holocaust should not have been invoked to mobilize public opinion behind a serious decision of state. The loss of Holocaust memory is terrible because the Holocaust was the tremendum of human experience. www.aei.org /publications/filter.all,pubID.23471/pub_detail.asp   (814 words)

Dimensions Vol. 11 No. 2 Considering the growing incidence of abuse ("artistic license") connected to the artistic popularization of the Holocaust, any serious proposal to endorse such popularization is fraught with problems. Moreover, she argues, in her article, that there are indeed popular works about the Holocaust that don’t trivialize the subject, that contain deft character development, and that are "bitterly honest" and specifically Jewish. The educator Karen Shawn, in her evaluation of Holocaust books for children, and Karen Friedman, the Director of the ADL Braun Holocaust Institute, in her essay, both discuss the issues raised by the influence of dramatic, popular accounts of the Holocaust era on students. www.adl.org /braun/vol11_no2.asp   (615 words)

Holocaust Creationism The central claim justifying the spread of Holocaust consciousness is that it teaches "lessons" that we all "ignore at our peril." Novick is deeply skeptical of this claim. But Americans, with their daily TV diet of images of crime, murder and mayhem, hardly need the Holocaust to teach them about the dangers outside their door, and Novick politely suggests that Will's opposition to liberal social programs did not arise out of his study of the Holocaust. Novick is interested in the "lesson" that ordinary people are capable of extraordinary evil, but he argues that the Holocaust is not as relevant a case of this as the work psychologist Stanley Milgram did at Yale in the mid-sixties. www.thenation.com /doc/19990712/wiener/4   (819 words)

AEI - Short Publications By “Holocaust memory” I mean the public’s consciousness of the Holocaust in the years since the event--that is, what the public has known, or at least what it has thought it has known, about the Holocaust. We were sitting in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington while I was that museum’s director, and she was marveling that, against the background of long years of silence about the Holocaust, there was now a U.S. government museum devoted to telling the public about that event. But the nature of the Holocaust was unique in that a society that saw itself, and was universally seen, as the crucible of some of the greatest achievements in human culture focused its powers of organization and modernity on the systematic task of exterminating an entire people. www.aei.org /publications/filter.all,pubID.23492/pub_detail.asp   (5072 words)

THE HOLOCAUST During the past half-century, the Holocaust became a prominent presence in American public culture. Films and broadcasts have not only presented the Holocaust to the largest number of Americans, but have played leading roles in shaping the nation's relationship to this forbidding subject. At the same time, the appearance of the Holocaust on episodes of American television series, from science fiction to situation comedy, has made the subject a familiar element of the nation's repertoire of moral issues. www.thejewishmuseum.org /online/gallery_theme.php?id=holocaust   (163 words)

ADL celebrates the upcoming CBS miniseries "Haven" "Haven" is based on the non-fiction book by Ruth Gruber, which tells the story of her journey to World War II Europe to escort 982 Holocaust refugees to a safe haven that President Roosevelt specially opened in Oswego, NY in 1944. The miniseries brings to life the stories of the people that Dr. Gruber encountered-stories of concentration camps, lost family members, and years spent fleeing the Nazis. It also brings to life the larger story of the United States' poor rescue effort during the Holocaust and the anti-Semitism that spurred isolationist sentiments in government officials and strict immigration quotas with regard to Jewish refugees. www.adl.org /holocaust/haven.asp   (254 words)

David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies: Welcome While it is understandable that ABC seeks the maximum number of viewers --and anybody interested in Holocaust education would share the same goal-- it is also important that the content of the planned series not be in any way compromised for the sake of ratings considerations. The six million Jews who died in the Holocaust were murdered by the Germans and their collaborators as part of a systematic campaign, anchored in ideological antisemitism, to kill every single Jew. In view of Gibson's record on the Holocaust, there is ample reason for concern about the content of the Holocaust miniseries that ABC has chosen his company to produce. www.wymaninstitute.org /articles/2005-12-gibson2.php   (793 words)

Gibson Plans Holocaust Miniseries -- Beliefnet.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Los Angeles, Dec. 7 - Mel Gibson is stirring passions again with his latest project--a nonfiction TV movie set against the backdrop of the Holocaust. Gibson's Con Artist Productions is developing "Flory" for ABC, based on the true story of a Dutch Jew named Flory Van Beek and her non-Jewish boyfriend who sheltered her from the Nazis, The New York Times and Variety reported in Wednesday editions. Gibson's father also is on the record denying that the Holocaust took place. www.beliefnet.com /story/180/story_18072_1.html   (296 words)

Buy Holocaust on DVD Holocaust is an eight-hour miniseries that was telecast in 1978. While the Holocaust has been treated in many excellent films and television shows, the 1978 TV miniseries "Holocaust" remains one of the finest. The winner of eight Emmy awards, Holocaust was originally telecast in four parts on April 16, 17, 18, and 19, 1978. holocaust-dvd.com   (966 words)

Recent Newspaper Articles Related to the Holocaust In recognition of his pioneering work in studying the legal dimension of the Holocaust, Penn School of Law adjunct professor Harry Reicher was recently appointed by President Bush to the Holocaust Memorial Council. Now, Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum and archive in Jerusalem, has assembled the largest and most comprehensive listing of Jewish victims' names - more than three million, or half of those who perished - along with biographical details, photographs and nutshell memoirs, and will start to make the information available online on Monday at www.yadvashem.org. For the first time in its history, the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum today declared a “genocide emergency,” saying that genocide is imminent or is actually happening in the Darfur region of Sudan. dolphin.upenn.edu /~vaad/hec/articles.html   (1781 words)

israelinsider: Briefs: Mel Gibson planning TV miniseries on Holocaust love story Mel Gibson is stirring passions again with his latest project - a nonfiction TV movie set against the backdrop of the Holocaust. Gibson's Con Artist Productions is developing "Flory" for ABC, based on the true story of a Dutch Jew named Flory Van Beek and her non-Jewish boyfriend who sheltered her from the Nazis, The New York Times and Variety reported in Wednesday editions. Gibson's father also is on the record denying that the Holocaust took place. web.israelinsider.com /Articles/Briefs/7207.htm   (418 words)

village voice > books > Peter Novick's The Holocaust in American Life by Allison Xantha Miller In American society the Holocaust is far from a dimly recognized historical event. Using government documents, internal records of mainstream Jewish organizations, memoirs, and media coverage of Holocaust-related events, Novick argues that the destruction of European Jewry is now central to American Jewish self- understanding and that this "centrality" developed mainly in response to Israel's military crises in the '70s, which to many seemed ominously like 1935 Nuremburg. For the 1978 NBC miniseries Holocaust, for example, the American Jewish Committee distributed millions of study guides; another group handed out yellow stars to be worn on the first night of the miniseries. www.villagevoice.com /arts/9929/miller.shtml   (742 words)

Dispatches from the Culture Wars: ABC Cancels Gibson Holocaust Miniseries ABC, in a stunningly obvious move, has pulled the plug on a forthcoming Mel Gibson-directed miniseries on the holocaust. a forthcoming Mel Gibson-directed miniseries on the holocaust Interesting - I would have thought that doing a miniseries on the Holocaust would be Tinseltown's version of [being sentenced to] community service. scienceblogs.com /dispatches/2006/08/abc_cancels_gibson_holocaust_m.php   (1392 words)

Mel Gibson Plans TV Miniseries on Holocaust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) The actor, who defied the odds with the blockbuster success of his film "The Passion of the Christ," is turning his attention to the Holocaust. According to the New York Times, Gibson's television production company is developing a four-hour nonfiction miniseries for ABC based on the life of Flory A. Van Beek, a Dutch Jew whose gentile neighbors hid her from the Nazis but who lost several relatives in concentration camps. Gibson may not act in the miniseries, and there's no guarantee that it will ever be finished or aired. www.newsmax.com /archives/ic/2005/12/6/213901.shtml   (317 words)

Holocaust in Popular Culture The Holocaust Center of Northern California provide documentation of the impact of this crucial event in world history. Responses to the Holocaust, a Hypermedia Sourcebook for the Humanities. Movies about the Holocaust are numerous, and include the miniseries Holocaust, Judgment at Nuremberg, Shoah, Shadows and Fog, and Julia. faculty.law.lsu.edu /ccorcos/lawhum/holocaustpage.htm   (91 words)

TV.com: ABC pulls Mel Gibson show The network said it was doing so because of script delays and made no reference to the controversy the actor is currently embroiled in regarding drunken anti-Semitic comments. Gibson's ABC miniseries was to follow a Dutch Jew during the Nazi Holocaust of World War II. Mel Gibson's father, Hutton, is a known anti-Semite and Holocaust denier. www.tv.com /mel-gibson/person/3677/story/5614.html   (1131 words)

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