Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz

About Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz

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.

Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz (2025) is a documentary film directed by Hugo Macgregor. Simon Schama takes the lead as Self - Presenter, and Marian Turski as Self.

It runs 59 minutes and was released in April 2025. Written by Simon Schama.

Members will find holocaust (shoah), auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp, and auschwitz in it. It streams on PBS, PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel, and WETA+ in the United States.

Schindler's List, The Zone of Interest, and Au Revoir les Enfants make useful companions to Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz.