Preview | Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On
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Historian Simon Schama examines the Holocaust, 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz.
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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Preview | Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On
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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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[SCHAMA:] All over the world, hatred and Holocaust denial are on the rise.
And as we reach a moment when the last survivors are passing on, it's now up to us historians to make sure that the full enormity of what happened will always be remembered.
[MARIAN TURSKI:] Auschwitz... did not fall from the sky.
It comes step by step.
Evil comes step by step.
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