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Our preeminent historian of the Jews is finally ready to confront Auschwitz

JL;DR SUMMARY Simon Schama, a distinguished Jewish historian, explores the horrors of the Holocaust in the PBS documentary 'Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On.' A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryAuschwitzHolocaustNazi GermanyDocumentaryGenocideLithuaniaPbsCompassionSimon Schama

Places mentioned

Oświęcim, Lesser Poland, Poland
"Simon Schama stands in front of a train carriage at Auschwitz-Birkenau."
Kaunas, Kaunas County, Lithuania
"One road to Auschwitz ran through a small garage in Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania."
Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania
"Schama shows not only Kovno, where his mothers (and my fathers) family came from, but the forests of Ponar outside Vilna (now Vilnius) and Amsterdam."
Germany
"The first place he visits is not Poland or Germany, but Lithuania."
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
"Where his mothers (and my fathers) family came from, but the forests of Ponar outside Vilna (now Vilnius) and Amsterdam."
Romania
"Romanians murdering their Jewish communities even before the Germans invaded."
United Kingdom
"Schama, trained and seasoned at Oxbridge before his appointments at Harvard and Columbia, expresses no doubt that Britain would have done the same if Hitler had crossed the Channel."
United States
"And, by the same logic, presumably America if Hitler had also crossed the Atlantic."

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