Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp

‘Schindler’s List’, directed by Steven Spielberg in 1993, is a hard-hitting and gripping film that deals with the key issue of persecution and war. It is a shocking account of the Nazi’s and the Jews during the oppressive era of WWII and by using various, effective cinematic techniques such as camera angles, lighting/colour and sound/music, Spielberg grips the viewer with numerous shocks and twists throughout. The film follows the main character Oskar Schindler as he encounters the realities of being a war profiteer during WWII. But during the key sequence the ‘Liquidation of the Krakow Ghetto’ he undergoes a pivotal change as he watches the events unfold with a birds-eye-view. The sequence opens with close-up shots of Amon Goeth and Oskar…

Schindler’s List, a true story about the Holocaust and one specific Nazi who protected his Jewish workers, represents life in Europe from 1939 to 1946 from a German point of view. Beginning with hiring Jews merely because it was cheaper, Oskar Schindler ended with hiring them in order to protect them from the concentration camps where the vast majority would find death. Over time, he realized that what was occurring was terribly evil and had experienced a change of heart. Now known as…

The Nazi party also planned to shut down any factories that weren’t directly related to the war effort, and the Jews that were originally working in them would be relocated to concentration camps. Luckily for his employees, Schindler knew about this plan through his Nazi contacts, and was able to convince Göth and the other Nazis involved to instead let him change his factory from one that produced enamelware to one that produced anti-tank grenades. Schindler was also allowed to move his factory…

One thing that I learned, is that the Nazis would burn the people and babies alive. I was very disillusioned when I read the part of the book when Elie arrived at Auschwitz and was heading towards the crematorium ovens and he saw the people and children being burned alive. I can’t imagine how hard and depressing it would be to see people being brutally killed in front of your eyes and not being able to help them. Another thing that I learned was that the Jews would be transported in the…

Oskar Schindler was a war hero who saved many Jews during the Holocaust, giving many of them a second chance at life. Oskar Schindler was born April 28, 1908 in Svitavy, which is in present-day Czech Republic. He started out as part of the Nazi party. In 1939 him and his family traveled to Krakow and got involved in the black market. He opened a factory that made German war goods and employed Polish Jews. these weren't his intentions at first but many jews were saved from concentration camps.…

During an interview with Elie Wiesel, Oprah Winfrey and him visited one of the most infamous concentration camps during the Holocaust, Auschwitz Concentration camp. Elie Wiesel is a survivor of the Holocaust and a survivor of Auschwitz where he was imprisoned for almost 16 months. Oprah and Elie toured the Concentration Camp as Elie reminisced about the horrible events that took place during his time there. The Holocaust was one of the most tragic genocides in world history. Germany was going…

Night The author is Elie Wiesel was born in Sighet, Romania who was studying religion before his family was forced into a Nazi death camp Auschwitz during WWII. During the time he was in Auschwitz his family was killed. He moved to New York in 1955 and became a US citizen in 1963. He got married to Marion Rose in 1969 in Jerusalem. He then went on to writing books and nonfiction works. He also became an international activists and figure of peace over the years. He was also a Humanities…

II in the concentration camps. Although the author himself being a survivor of the atrocities and nightmarish times of WWII in Nazi Germany one reading this story might find it too direct and descriptive. This style of writing to many readers might be too much for them to handle but I believe when it comes to important life events such as this one the person will want to be as vivid and clear as possible to properly show what that person himself in this case the author has gone through. I agree…

Auschwitz is the name of a death concentration camp where 1 million Jews were held captive including Eliezer and his family. Within minutes of arrival, Eliezer’s mother and his…

The Effect of Long-Term Solitary Confinement Communication and social interaction is the foundation of all human relationship. In 2009 author and surgeon Dr. Atul Gawande’s “HellHole”, an article in New Yorker magazine on what's happening in prisons across America. In the article, Gawande describes that humans are social animals, explaining that “once humans are stripped of consistent social interaction, they began to lose their minds.” Through his personal creditability, detailed emotional…