The final chapter: Holocaust survivors in the Displaced Persons camps, the 1946 Kielce pogrom in Poland, the Brichah escape network, the British interception of the refugee ship Exodus, and the 1947 UN Partition Plan.

On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion declares the independence of the State of Israel — followed immediately by the War of Independence and the Palestinian Nakba. We close the series with the Nuremberg Trials, the long postwar silence of survivors, and the 1961 Eichmann trial that finally broke it.

Eleven hundred years of Ashkenazi Jewish history — this is where the series ends, and where a new chapter begins.

The full story of the Shoah: the Warsaw Ghetto and its 1943 uprising, the Einsatzgruppen mass shootings at Babi Yar, the Wannsee Conference, and the industrial extermination machinery of Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, and Belzec.

This episode also covers Jewish resistance — the Sobibor escape, partisan fighters, and Emanuel Ringelblum's secret Oyneg Shabbes archive — and what the Allies knew, and when.

Six million Jews. Two-thirds of European Jewry. An entire Yiddish-speaking civilization erased.

How did Nazi persecution of Jews escalate from boycotts to genocide in just six years? This episode traces the 1933 Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses, the 1935 Nuremberg Laws that defined Jews by blood, the 1938 Évian Conference's failure to help refugees, and the November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom.

We examine why so many German and Polish Jews believed persecution "would pass" — and how the world's refusal to open its doors sealed the fate of millions before World War Two even began.