Wouk has written about Jewish faith and the remarkable ability of Jews to continue to thrive, despite the odds.
WAR AND REMEMBRANCE TV
The W inds of War was also made into a TV miniseries, airing over 18 hours in February 1983. Both War and Remembrance and its predecessor, The Winds of War, were meaty historical novels, painstakingly researched and written over the course of 16 years by Herman Wouk. “Natalie didn’t consider herself Jewish and never believed she would be affected by what was happening in Europe, but she ended up developing a profound appreciation for her heritage.” When War and Remembrance producer/director Dan Curtis told Seymour she had won the role after all, “it was the most thrilling day of my entire career,” she recalled.īased on the book of the same title, War and Remembrance is an epic miniseries – 29 hours in total – that debuted on the ABC Television Network in November 1988. “The whole idea of being Jewish but not really being Jewish is something I totally related to,” Seymour said. Seymour is not Jewish, but her mother had been imprisoned in a concentration camp in Indonesia under the Japanese, and her father had helped to release prisoners from Bergen Belsen. During her inexorable fall from a life of privilege and safety to donning the gray striped uniform of an Auschwitz prisoner, Natalie taps into a previously unknown emotional connection to her faith as she fights for her life and that of her young son. When Jane Seymour’s agent first sent her the script for War and Remembrance, the actress was, in her words, “completely overwhelmed.” Although the role hadn’t been offered to her, Seymour wanted very much to play the role of Natalie Jastrow, a Jew married to a Gentile who finds herself stranded in Europe as the Nazis’ grip over the continent tightens.
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