"CSI: NY" Yahrzeit (2009)

Director:

Norberto Barba

Writers:

Barbie Kligman (written by)
Peter M. Lenkov (written by)

TV Series:

"CSI: NY" (2004)

Original Air Date:

29 April 2009 (Season 5, Episode 22)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

A murder leads CSI to a group of white supremacists, the discovery of precious items stolen from Holacost survivors, and perhaps the uncovering of a former Nazi guard. |

Plot Keywords:

New York | New York City | Crime Scene | Investigation | Detective

Cast

Gary Sinise	...	Detective Mac Taylor
Melina Kanakaredes	...	Detective Stella Bonasera
Carmine Giovinazzo	...	Detective Danny Messer
Anna Belknap	...	Detective Lindsay Monroe (credit only)
Robert Joy	...	Dr. Sid Hammerback
A.J. Buckley	...	Adam Ross
Hill Harper	...	Dr. Sheldon Hawkes
Eddie Cahill	...	Detective Don Flack
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Summer Altice	...	Model #2
Edward Asner	...	Abraham Klein
Shelley Berman	...	George Savar
Skyler Caleb	...	Esther's Husband
Natalia Castellanos	...	Sexy Woman
Melinda Y. Cohen	...	Esther Schnitzler
Scott Cohen	...	Aaron Lesnick
Kiersten Hall	...	Billy
John Justice	...	Klaus Braun
Rick Marcus	...	Xander Green
Matt McTighe	...	Michael Elgers
Laura Miro	...	Alice Tanaka
Modi	...	David Klein (as Modi Rosenfeld)
Adrian Neil	...	Auction House Manager
Meagan Tandy	...	Model #1
Rita Zohar	...	Hannah Schnitzler

Quotes:

Michael Elgers: I told you, I'm done talking.
Detective Mac Taylor: Then shut up.

Of all the TV shows/episodes where the subject was of the Holocaust...this was the most moving one.

I have just viewed this episode, on a clean, rain refreshed Saturday morning, and am sitting here thanking God for people like Gary Sinese, his writers and producers who go against popular opinion and practice to put quality life's learning lessons and history on prime time TV.

I first heard of the Holocaust as a junior in high school history class (1967-68). Our teacher showed a film of news clips make in the camps. I was absolutely horrified that one person could do such evil against another. Being raised in the Southern U.S. and in a Baptist church, I was taught that the Jewish people were God's chosen, and that we should always honor, respect and stand by them. I could not understand how the God I knew could let all this happen to his chosen people.

Over the past 40 some years, more of the horrors of war have been in the public eye with the modern medium of TV. We now all know that the Holocaust was real, it was not something made up by the Jewish people, media or whomever as a lot of people used to make out like it was. When Schindler's List came out, another generation learned about these horrors, and hopefully will not forget the lesson taught in this film.

This episode of CSI:NY is the best representation of what "all the fuss" is about when it comes to "never forget". Thank you all for such a wonderfully written and acted episode. Ed Asner played his part brilliantly!!!, and again, we are taught or reminded, NEVER FORGET!