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INTRODUCTION

AUSCHWITZ – THE SERIES

ONLINE

HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY

OTHER BBC PROGRAMMES

AUSCHWITZ – FACTS

AUSCHWITZ – A TIMELINE

BIOGRAPHIES

INTRODUCTION

BBC TWO UNRAVELS THE

SECRETS OF AUSCHWITZ

Auschwitz has a unique place in history.

It is where the largest mass murder ever

recorded occurred.Yet it is hard to grasp

how and why such a chilling place existed.

about the shocking, almost unimaginable

pain of those who died, or survived,

Auschwitz. It’s about how the Nazis came

to do what they did. I feel passionately that

being horrified is not enough.We need to

make an attempt to understand how and

why such horrors happened if we are ever

to be able to stop them occurring again.”

in and around the museum of Auschwitz-

Birkenau, and a documentary that traces

one woman’s story of survival seen through

her grandson’s eyes.

Now the untold story of Auschwitz is to be

revealed in a definitive BBC series to mark

the 60th anniversary of the liberation of

the camp in January 2005.

A BBC book written by Laurence Rees,

Auschwitz:The Nazis & the ‘Final Solution’ ,

accompanies the series.

The series is the result of three years of

in-depth research, drawing on the close

involvement of world experts on the period,

including Professors Sir Ian Kershaw and

David Cesarani. It is based on nearly 100

interviews with survivors and perpetrators,

many of whom are speaking in detail for

the first time. Sensitively shot drama

sequences, filmed on location using

German and Polish actors, bring recently

discovered documents to life on screen,

whilst specially commissioned computer

images give a historically accurate view

of Auschwitz-Birkenau at all its many

stages.The computer-animated images

are based on plans from the Auschwitz

construction offices which were captured

after the war, eye-witness testimony and

aerial photos, and include the undressing

room, the gas chamber and the oven room

of one of the crematorium complexes, as

well as illustrations of Himmler’s vision for

a new Germanised town of Auschwitz.

The WW2 People’s War website at

bbc.co.uk/ww2 is actively seeking

memories and testimony from people

involved in the liberation of camps and

ghettos, or who knew or worked

with refugees.

Written and produced by BAFTA Award-

winning producer Laurence Rees, and

using new research, Auschwitz:The Nazis

& the ‘Final Solution’ offers a unique

perspective on the camp in which more

than 1 million people were ruthlessly

murdered.

A history of the Holocaust can be found

on bbc.co.uk/history.

The series follows the trail of evil from

the origins of Auschwitz as a place to hold

Polish political prisoners, through the Nazi

solution for what they called ‘the Jewish

problem’ to the development of the camp

as a mechanised factory for mass murder.

It interweaves new testimony from camp

survivors and members of the SS with

archive footage and drama reconstructions

of some of the key decision-making moments.

And for the first time on television, the

buildings that made up Auschwitz-Birkenau

are recreated from the original blueprints,

using photo-real graphics.

“The name Auschwitz is quite rightly a

byword for horror,” says series producer

Laurence Rees. “But the problem with

thinking about horror is that we naturally

turn away from it. Our series is not only

The BBC will be marking Holocaust

Memorial Day (27 January 2005) with a

number of other television and radio

programmes, including a live event on the

day, an international musical performance

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