Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz review – this gripping show isn’t afraid to ask awkward questions

The historian’s unflinching Holocaust documentary doesn't just chronicle horror. It also asks: how much was Europe to blame – and is any nation immune from antisemitism?It is 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. That means it won’t be long before all the people who lived through the Holocaust are gone. It is now left to those who weren’t there – such as the historian Simon Schama, born in London two weeks after the liberation – to ensure it is never for