Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz

Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz (2025)

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.

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2025-04-07
  • User Rating: 4.6/10 from 7 ratings
  • Runtime: 0h 59min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Oxford Films
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • Director: Hugo Macgregor
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Summary

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.

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  • Simon Schama

    as Self - Presenter
  • Marian Turski

    as Self
Directing Hugo Macgregor Director
Production Jyoti Mehta Producer
Production Nicolas Kent Executive Producer
Production Charlotte Sacher Executive Producer
Editing Richard Wilkinson Editor
Camera Tom Hayward Director of Photography
Writing Simon Schama Writer

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