“Whoever Saves a Life, Saves the World”
What it means to be human isn’t something you often think about. In the Judenrat activity I was put in a very foreign, but a very real situation. I was forced to pick who lived and who died, if the lives of a few did actually outweigh the lives of many, even if the lives of the few are helpless children and elderly people. To be human means you have the ability to feel and understand, if we can’t do that then we’re no different from animals. Or so I thought. Oskar Schindler was a businessman who was part of the Nazi Party. Oskar showed both sides of being a human, good and bad. He started off being manipulative and greedy, like how he only saved Stern so his business could continue running properly. As …show more content…
Oskar Schindler wasn’t the best person at first. He was a womanizer and cheated on his wife so many times, not to mention all of his secretaries, his wife even said she’d stay if she would be the only one, but he couldn’t do it and she left. He was also manipulative, in how he convinced Stern to work for him, and how he used his “power” to make people do as he said to avoid getting in trouble. Not only that, but he was greedy and selfish. He saved Stern so his business could keep going, because the only thing that was important to him was money. Schindler was not a good man at first, but war has an effect on …show more content…
When he heard that everyone would be transported to Auschwitz he knew he had to do something to save as many people as he could. He talked to Amon Goeth about taking Jews to work at his factory to make artillery shells, that this would help out the war effort. Goeth then basically asks how much are they worth to Schindler. Schindler with the help of Stern then makes a list of Jewish people that he would like to save. He leaves one space empty for Goeth’s maid whom he abused countless times. He threw all the money he had into rescuing as many people as he could. You could tell he cared, because when the women were accidentally shipped to Auschwitz he personally went down and wouldn’t take no for an answer and made sure his people were saved. At the factory he made sure no guards went on the factory floor or hurt any of the workers as it would “interfere with production” and that isn’t a good thing for his business, but in reality he just didn’t want any of the Jewish people getting hurt. He also fed them well, which was unlike most other places in Nazi Germany. Schindler also allowed them to perform all of their religious ceremonies when they wanted. When the war came to an end and Nazi Germany was dominated and conquered Schindler had to flee, because since he was part of the Nazi Party he was technically a war criminal. You could see that Schindler had touched
What it means to be human isn’t something you often think about. In the Judenrat activity I was put in a very foreign, but a very real situation. I was forced to pick who lived and who died, if the lives of a few did actually outweigh the lives of many, even if the lives of the few are helpless children and elderly people. To be human means you have the ability to feel and understand, if we can’t do that then we’re no different from animals. Or so I thought. Oskar Schindler was a businessman who was part of the Nazi Party. Oskar showed both sides of being a human, good and bad. He started off being manipulative and greedy, like how he only saved Stern so his business could continue running properly. As …show more content…
Oskar Schindler wasn’t the best person at first. He was a womanizer and cheated on his wife so many times, not to mention all of his secretaries, his wife even said she’d stay if she would be the only one, but he couldn’t do it and she left. He was also manipulative, in how he convinced Stern to work for him, and how he used his “power” to make people do as he said to avoid getting in trouble. Not only that, but he was greedy and selfish. He saved Stern so his business could keep going, because the only thing that was important to him was money. Schindler was not a good man at first, but war has an effect on …show more content…
When he heard that everyone would be transported to Auschwitz he knew he had to do something to save as many people as he could. He talked to Amon Goeth about taking Jews to work at his factory to make artillery shells, that this would help out the war effort. Goeth then basically asks how much are they worth to Schindler. Schindler with the help of Stern then makes a list of Jewish people that he would like to save. He leaves one space empty for Goeth’s maid whom he abused countless times. He threw all the money he had into rescuing as many people as he could. You could tell he cared, because when the women were accidentally shipped to Auschwitz he personally went down and wouldn’t take no for an answer and made sure his people were saved. At the factory he made sure no guards went on the factory floor or hurt any of the workers as it would “interfere with production” and that isn’t a good thing for his business, but in reality he just didn’t want any of the Jewish people getting hurt. He also fed them well, which was unlike most other places in Nazi Germany. Schindler also allowed them to perform all of their religious ceremonies when they wanted. When the war came to an end and Nazi Germany was dominated and conquered Schindler had to flee, because since he was part of the Nazi Party he was technically a war criminal. You could see that Schindler had touched