SIMON SCHAMA: THE ROAD TO AUSCHWITZ
Monday, 9pm, BBC2 Factual
Historian Sir Simon Schama explores how Nazi death camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau only came about after years of previous horror, with massacres taking place across Europe before the gas chambers were even built.
He starts his sobering journey in Kaunas, Lithuania, the home of his mother's family, where he learns how the murder of its Jewish population began shortly after the Germans invaded in 1941.
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'They were ordered to lie down in huge pits that had been dug and they were shot in the back of the head just for the sin of being born a Jew,' says Simon.
'Mass executions took place all over Lithuania but the most horrific took place in a forest just outside Vilnius where between 70,000 and 80,000 Jews were shot, as well as Russians, Poles and Roma.
'The Holocaust by bullets happened so fast. It was a mass extermination of a million and a half people that took place in weeks and months in 1941 before...
Monday, 9pm, BBC2 Factual
Historian Sir Simon Schama explores how Nazi death camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau only came about after years of previous horror, with massacres taking place across Europe before the gas chambers were even built.
He starts his sobering journey in Kaunas, Lithuania, the home of his mother's family, where he learns how the murder of its Jewish population began shortly after the Germans invaded in 1941.
image [https://cdn.magzter.com/1390991369/1743509430/articles/irHYCUt7M1743601002183/5111322385.jpg]
'They were ordered to lie down in huge pits that had been dug and they were shot in the back of the head just for the sin of being born a Jew,' says Simon.
'Mass executions took place all over Lithuania but the most horrific took place in a forest just outside Vilnius where between 70,000 and 80,000 Jews were shot, as well as Russians, Poles and Roma.
'The Holocaust by bullets happened so fast. It was a mass extermination of a million and a half people that took place in weeks and months in 1941 before...
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