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Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz

Documentary

2025, Movie, 59min

In the most personal and unflinching film of his career, historian Simon Schama confronts the enormity of the Holocaust and the catastrophe experienced by its victims. In a journey that ends with his first visit to Auschwitz, Simon travels across the Continent to explore how the Holocaust was far more than a Nazi obsession that played out in gas chambers, but a European-wide crime of complicity. From bullets in the Lithuanian lands of his ancestors to bureaucracy in the Netherlands, he reveals how deep-rooted prejudice was weaponised to turn people against their Jewish neighbours. As a moving interview with a survivor reveals, the story of how ‘evil comes step by step’ remains powerfully relevant today.

Country: United Kingdom

Director:

Hugo Macgregor

Cast:

Simon Schama

Reviews

Critic Benji Wilson

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To really grasp what happened at Auschwitz, and the steps right across Europe that led to it happening, you need to talk to someone who lived it. There aren’t many left. It makes films like this one all the more vital...

Read full review at The Telegraph

Critic Rachel Aroesti

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The historian’s unflinching Holocaust documentary doesn't just chronicle horror. It also asks: how much was Europe to blame – and is any nation immune from antisemitism?

Read full review at The Guardian