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Weekend TV : Looking Back at World War II, 50 Years Later

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V-E Day 50 years ago is remembered on several weekend programs, including Sunday’s three-hour special “The Last Days of World War II,” with a mix of archival footage and interviews, at 5 and 9 p.m. on cable’s Arts & Entertainment.

Also, the poignant “One Survivor Remembers” profiles Gerda Weissmann Klein, who spent three years in a Nazi labor camp. In this documentary, which opens with Germany’s invasion of her Polish hometown on Sept. 1, 1939, Klein recalls the Holocaust. It airs Sunday at 10 p.m. on HBO.

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