Amid rising antisemitism around the world and 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, historian Simon Schama – 80 years old and Jewish himself – traces the “road of horror” that led to and enabled the Holocaust.
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Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On
Amid rising antisemitism around the world and 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Simon Schama traces the historical road of horror that culminated in the death camps. From Lithuania to Poland, the Netherlands and, finally, Auschwitz, Schama confronts the enormity of the Holocaust as both historian and 80-year-old Jew, to understand how it happened and in the hopes of never again.
