The BBC is to broadcast a special series of programmes to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz next year, the corporation has announced.
The programmes, which will be broadcast around Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27, will range from interviews with survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp to a new drama about the televising of the Adolf Eichmann trial in 1961, starring Martin Freeman and Anthony LaPaglia.
Danny Cohen, the BBC’s director of television, said: “The liberation of the camps is a very significant anniversary which the BBC will mark with a range of thought-provoking programmes.
“Alongside new documentaries and drama - the BBC will re-show Shoah in full and provide coverage of the Holocaust Memorial Event.”
