Holocaust
The Liberation
Season 1, Episode 5 · Aired 1978-04-20
Synopsis
Rudi meets Inga in the liberated Thresienstadt, later revealing that he found out what happened to his parents and Karl at Auschwitz. Inga reveals that despite Karl telling her not to, she had the baby and named him Josef (after her father-in-law). Inga decided to take her child back to Berlin, to reunite with her family. The fate of Rudi is unknown at the denouement of the series, but he is offered a job smuggling orphaned Jewish children into Palestine. The series ends with Rudi playing football with Jewish Greek children.
In the series
This episode is part of Holocaust (1978) on NBC.
Network TV forces the Shoah into American living rooms — controversy included.
Key cast
- Meryl Streep as Inga Helms Weiss
- James Woods as Karl Weiss
- Michael Moriarty as Erik Dorf
- Fritz Weaver as Dr. Josef Weiss
- Rosemary Harris as Berta Palitz Weiss