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.
Funding for SIMON SCHAMA: THE HOLOCAUST, 80 YEARS ON was provided in part by the Ford Foundation, The Polonsky Foundation, The Sylvia A. and Simon B. Poyta Programming Endowment to...
Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On
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Special | 55m 14s | Historian Simon Schama examines the Holocaust, 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz. (55m 14s)
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About Simon Schama
Sir Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University, and Contributing Editor of the Financial Times. He has taught at Cambridge, Oxford and Harvard Universities. He is an award-winning author of 20 books, translated into 23 languages, including two volumes of The Story of the Jews. THE HOLOCAUST, 80 YEARS ON is his latest film as writer-presenter for PBS and the BBC, joining a body of work that includes 60 documentaries on art, history and literature.
On making this film – the most personal and unflinching of his career – Schama said:
"Never has there been so much Holocaust education while also as much ignorance about its true enormity, the most profound act of calculated evil known to history. The conflicts and agonies of our present moment, not least the appalling return of antisemitism, only make a retelling of the Holocaust story the more urgent."
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Funding for SIMON SCHAMA: THE HOLOCAUST, 80 YEARS ON was provided in part by the Ford Foundation, The Polonsky Foundation, The Sylvia A. and Simon B. Poyta Programming Endowment to...