Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz (2025): Besetzung, Handlung & Streaming

Released in 2025, Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz is a dokumentarfilm film directed by Hugo Macgregor, running about 59 minutes.

What it’s about. 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.

Who’s in it. Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz stars Simon Schama as Self - Presenter and Marian Turski as Self.

How it landed. With an audience score of 4.1/10, Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz has proved divisive with audiences.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz page.

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