Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On

Tracing the Beginning of the Holocaust

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.

Tracing the Beginning of the Holocaust

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