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Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On

Tracing the Beginning of the Holocaust

2m 55s

The town of Kaunas was once home to a vibrant Jewish community, the second largest in Lithuania. But in the summer 1941, the German army and the local population began a violent persecution that would escalate throughout Europe. It was here that the Germans first discovered that others might actually want to support them in the mass murder of European Jews.

Funding for SIMON SCHAMA: THE HOLOCAUST, 80 YEARS ON was provided in part by the Ford Foundation, The Polonsky Foundation, The Sylvia A. and Simon B. Poyta Programming Endowment to Fight Antisemitism, Patti Askwith Kenner, The David Berg Foundation, Georgette Bennett and Leonard Polonsky, and public television viewers.
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Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On
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Historian Simon Schama examines the Holocaust, 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz.
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Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On
Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On
Historian Simon Schama examines the Holocaust, 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz.
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Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On
Auschwitz Survivor Reflects on Compassion and Reducing Hatred
Holocaust survivor Marian Turksi on how society can avoid such atrocities from occurring again.
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