WASHINGTON — Reality TV shows have placed people and families on deserted islands and remote locations, living like the Amish, like people from the 19th century and more. But one show in the Czech Republic may be taking it a bit too far.
“Holiday in the Protectorate,” an eight-episode series on the public Czech Television, aims to re-create life under Nazi occupation in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia from 1939 to 1945, putting people in the situation of a three-generation family subjected to intimidation, interrogation, food shortages and bombing raids, Variety reports.
Zora Cejnkova, the director, tells the CTK news agency that “When starting the project, we knew that it may provoke a discussion on how far such a genre may go. I tried to show that period with utter seriousness and with respect for its tragic character.”
Maybe so, but a lot of people think there’s no way to really do that.
A Times of Israel columnist wrote, “Fortunately for the family, they will not be treated like the 82,309 Jews who lived in the protectorate and were deported by the Nazis to concentration and death camps or were killed by Czech collaborators.”
The show runs through June 13.
