The true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite.

Efter nazisternes magtovertagelse i 1933 indførtes flere og flere restriktioner for jøder. Denne serie handler om familien Weiss, en jødisk familie bosat i Berlin. Karl (James Woods) mister sit job som læge og bliver sendt i koncentrationslejren Buchwald. Inga Helms (Meryl Streep) kæmper for at holde familien i live under Hitlers regime. Vi følger også Karls far, Joseph (Fritz Weaver), der mister sit job som læge og deporteres til Polen, hans bror Rudi (Joseph Bottoms), der flygter til Prag og den unge advokat Erik Dorf (Michael Moriarty), som avancerer i rækkerne i SS. Serien er belønnet med otte Emmy Awards, heriblandt bedste kvindelige hovedrolle (Meryl Streep).

Berlin, sommeren 1941. Fem unge venner skilles af krigen: officeren Wilhelm och hans drømmende lillebror Friedhelm sendes til østfronten. Charlotte sendes ud som feltsygeplejerske. Greta prøver at gøre karriere som sangerinde, mens hendes jødiske kæreste Viktor forgæves forsøger at overtale sine forældre til at flygte..

A detailed account of the two millennia of intolerance and persecution suffered by the Jews, from antiquity to the present day.

D-Day, June 6th, 1944. As the Allies storm the beaches of Normandy, Hitler orders the return of the Das Reich, the infamous Panzer elite division known for its mass murders in Ukraine and Belarus, based at that time in southwest of France. Its mission: to push the Allies back into the Atlantic and turn the tide of the conflict in favor of the Nazi Germany.

Exactly 75 years after the end of the Second World War and the liberation of the concentration camps, twelve witnesses tell about the suffering caused to themselves and their families during the Holocaust and about the impact of the persecution of the Jews during the Second World War on the rest of their lives.