Schindler’s List Human Rights Issues
The medium I have choose to write my midterm assignment on was the classic 1993 film Schindler’s List directed by Steven Spielberg. I have chosen to write my midterm on this film because I had found it very interesting because it supplies a rare perspective of a sympathetic Nazi during the Holocaust. Furthemore, I had found that it provided numerous examples of human rights issues amongst a particulate ethnoreligious group known as the Jew. Therefore, directly corresponding to the assignment. I also found interest in this film because it had been directed by Steven Spielberg, and he is known for his literary genius.
The Plot Schindler’s List is a film based upon a true story of Oskar Schindler a German …show more content…
Despite his financial consequences, Mr. Schindler goes to extravagant lengths in order to protect the Jews from certain death in concentration camps. For instance, he had successfully bribed a Nazi official into redirecting a train that was heading to the infamous death camp, Auschwitz. He had also demonstrated his humanity on a scalding Summer day when he insisted the cattle cars carrying two thousand jews en route to a death camp become hosed down with fire hydrant water to cool down the Jews inside. To top it all off, Mr. Schindler had also brought himself financial ruin by converting his successful pots and pans factory into a factory that had purposefully manufactured dysfunctional artillery shells for the war efforts.
After the war and penniless, Mr. Schindler finds himself unable to support himself, however, his the debt he now carries is repaid by the Jews he had saved from the Holocaust. For Schindler now has the fortunate support of the Jews he had befriended while creating a list of 800 to protect through means of illegal bribery, known as “Schindler’s Jews”. Hence the title of the movie Schindler’s list. “Schindler’s Jews” ended up caring for him until he had perished in 1974, at the age of sixty-six. The movie concludes revealing that Mr. Schindler had been buried at Jerusalem where he is regarded as a
The medium I have choose to write my midterm assignment on was the classic 1993 film Schindler’s List directed by Steven Spielberg. I have chosen to write my midterm on this film because I had found it very interesting because it supplies a rare perspective of a sympathetic Nazi during the Holocaust. Furthemore, I had found that it provided numerous examples of human rights issues amongst a particulate ethnoreligious group known as the Jew. Therefore, directly corresponding to the assignment. I also found interest in this film because it had been directed by Steven Spielberg, and he is known for his literary genius.
The Plot Schindler’s List is a film based upon a true story of Oskar Schindler a German …show more content…
Despite his financial consequences, Mr. Schindler goes to extravagant lengths in order to protect the Jews from certain death in concentration camps. For instance, he had successfully bribed a Nazi official into redirecting a train that was heading to the infamous death camp, Auschwitz. He had also demonstrated his humanity on a scalding Summer day when he insisted the cattle cars carrying two thousand jews en route to a death camp become hosed down with fire hydrant water to cool down the Jews inside. To top it all off, Mr. Schindler had also brought himself financial ruin by converting his successful pots and pans factory into a factory that had purposefully manufactured dysfunctional artillery shells for the war efforts.
After the war and penniless, Mr. Schindler finds himself unable to support himself, however, his the debt he now carries is repaid by the Jews he had saved from the Holocaust. For Schindler now has the fortunate support of the Jews he had befriended while creating a list of 800 to protect through means of illegal bribery, known as “Schindler’s Jews”. Hence the title of the movie Schindler’s list. “Schindler’s Jews” ended up caring for him until he had perished in 1974, at the age of sixty-six. The movie concludes revealing that Mr. Schindler had been buried at Jerusalem where he is regarded as a