Preview | Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On

Premiered April 22, 2025
Preview | Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On

Historian Simon Schama examines the Holocaust, 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz.

About the Program

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.

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