Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On | Full Documentary | PBS

Against the contemporary backdrop of rising antisemitism around the world, and 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Simon Schama traces the historical path to the monstrous death camp - the endpoint of a much longer road of horror. From Lithuania to Poland to the Netherlands to, 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 it will never happen again.

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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.