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The Televised Portrayal of the Holocaust: A Character Quiz

This quiz tests your knowledge of the characters portrayed in the telemovie Holocaust, focusing on the actors who brought these historical figures to life.

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1 Who played Lowy in the telemovie Holocaust?

2 What role did Tom Bell play in the telemovie Holocaust?

3 Who played Heinrich Palitz in the telemovie Holocaust?

4 Who played Uncle Sasha in the telemovie Holocaust?

5 What role did Robert Stephens play in the telemovie Holocaust?

6 Who played Erik Dorf in the telemovie Holocaust?

7 Who played Adolf Eichmann in the telemovie Holocaust?

8 What role did Lee Montague play in the telemovie Holocaust?

9 Who played Rudi Weiss in the telemovie Holocaust?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the 2007 drama The Memory Thief made use of interview footage of actual Holocaust survivors.
  • renowned Holocaust scholar Robert Jan van Pelt says that the first Holocaust deniers were the Nazis themselves.
  • pianist and composer Moshe Cotel chose to become a rabbi after meeting a Holocaust survivor who was so inspired by his retelling of the story of Alfred Dreyfus that she had returned to Judaism.
  • the Paper Clips Project of a small school in Tennessee received over 30 million paperclips from all over the world to honor the victims of the Holocaust.
  • the ZwiÄ…zek Organizacji Wojskowej, a Polish resistance group inside the Auschwitz concentration camp, provided the first intelligence about the Holocaust to the Western Allies.
  • the president of Å»egota, Julian Grobelny, was famous for saving Jewish children from the Holocaust by entering the Warsaw Ghetto from the Aryan side and walking out with them.
  • the family of Józef and Wiktoria Ulma (pictured), Polish Righteous among the Nations from Markowa, was summarily executed for rescuing their Jewish countrymen during the Holocaust.
  • the author of the best-selling book Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, who claimed to be a Holocaust survivor, admitted her memoir was a hoax.
  • during the Holocaust, Capuchin friar Père Marie-Benoît created fake passports and baptism certificates in order to smuggle hundreds of Jews out of Southern France.
  • because of the Albanian Muslim concept of Besa, Albanians saved about 2000 Jews from the Holocaust during World War II.
  • 1 SS Infantry Brigade took part in numerous anti-partisan operations and the Holocaust.
  • Polish resistance member Zofia Baniecka and her mother hid over fifty Jews in their Warsaw apartment during the Holocaust between 1941 and 1944.
  • Holocaust survivor Otto Eisler designed the only remaining synagogue in Brno.
  • Abraham Blum, a Bundist participant in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, was murdered by the Gestapo, but his wife Luba Blum-Bielicka, a nurse, survived the Holocaust and ran an orphanage in post war Poland.
  • CzesÅ‚awa Kwoka, a Polish Catholic child victim of the Holocaust, was the subject of a 2007 award-winning mixed-media presentation.
  • Samson was made by Academy Award winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda and blends the Biblical tale of Samson with his Holocaust coming-of-age story.
  • Wilhelm Koppe, one of the chief Nazi Holocaust perpetrators in occupied Poland, escaped arrest and under false name managed a Bonn chocolate factory for over a decade.
  • Rose Van Thyn, a survivor of Auschwitz and Ravensbrueck, became a leading figure in Holocaust education in her adopted city of Shreveport, Louisiana.
  • Groucho Marx wanted to play the title role of an embittered Holocaust survivor in the 1964 film The Pawnbroker.
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