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Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz (2025)
Directed by Hugo Macgregor
“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.”
Documentary · 59m
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.
Cast
Simon Schama
Marian Turski
Crew
- Director
- Hugo Macgregor
- Writer
- Simon Schama
- Director of Photography
- Tom Hayward
- Editor
- Richard Wilkinson
- Producer
- Jyoti Mehta, Simon Schama
Details
- Release date
- 2025-04-07
- Runtime
- 59m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Oxford Films