The Tattooist of Auschwitz adaptation has been given the ‘Hallmark Holocaust’ treatment
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When the late Elie Wiesel, a survivor of Auschwitz, saw Holocaust, the first major television production about the fate of Jews during World War II (starring a young Meryl Streep, incidentally) he dismissed it as mere “soap opera”.
The sheer mind-bending horror of the Nazi camps could not be reflected in a television drama, he said. The Holocaust was “the ultimate mystery, the ultimate event, never to be comprehended or transmitted”.
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