Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz

In what is considered the most personal and unflinching film of his career, historian Simon Schama examines the scale of the Holocaust and the suffering endured by its victims. The film follows Schama on a journey that culminates in his first visit to Auschwitz, as he travels across Europe to explore how the Holocaust was not merely a Nazi policy confined to gas chambers, but a broader European crime marked by complicity. He investigates how prejudice, from the use of bullets in the Lithuanian regions of his ancestors to bureaucratic processes in the Netherlands, was exploited to turn populations against their Jewish neighbors. A poignant interview with a survivor highlights the ongoing relevance of the idea that "evil comes step by step."