Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On

Auschwitz Survivor Reflects on Compassion and Reducing Hatred

Historian Simon Schama speaks with Holocaust survivor Marian Turksi, who shares this message with the world: "Auschwitz did not fall from the sky. It comes step by step. Evil comes step by step. And therefore, you shouldn’t be indifferent. Let’s start with reducing hatred, and trying to understand other people."

Auschwitz Survivor Reflects on Compassion and Reducing Hatred

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    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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