The Shoah: The Nazi Genocide of the Jews (Part 3)

CORRECTION: Conall misspeaks and says the Nazi T4 program targeting disabled people ended in 1949. He meant to say 1941. However, the program did continue in less centralized  fashion until the end of the war until 1945.

In this final episode of a 3 part series on the history of concentration camps and the Holocaust (also known as the Shoah in Hebrew, meaning “catastrophe”), Conall and Emerson analyze why the Nazis adopted a policy of total genocide against Europe’s Jews. From the cruel methods used to the conference that led to the finalization of the Holocaust, we explore why the Holocaust happened and the series of policy decisions made by various Nazi officials that led to it. 

We tell the stories of those victimized - those who survived, and those who didn’t - from a small, anonymous Jewish boy in the Warsaw Ghetto to the resistance fighter Samuel Willenberg to the young writer Anne Frank. We also look at the supreme moral example set by the likes of Chiune Sugihara and Oskar Schindler in saving Jews from the Holocaust. Finally, we reflect on humanity - and the responsibility the legacy of the Holocaust leaves to us to create a better world.