The Schindler’s List is Steven Spielberg’s award-winning film, which illustrates the profoundly nightmarish Holocaust. It recreates a dark, frightening period during World War II, when Nazi-occupied Kraków first dispossessed Jews of their businesses and homes, then forced them into ghettos and labor camps in Plaszów and finally resettled in concentration camps for execution. It is quite terrifying to think how far the Nazis were able to go with their murderous ideology. Which is the primary component of what makes the novel and film so nerve-wracking. It is difficult to imagine how an entire group that were so dehumanized by another group of people and were killed as if they were nothing but ‘bodies’ without minds or emotions. The film opens
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His awareness grows, however, when Stern brings to see him a one armed man who wants to thank Schindler for saving him by making him “essential.” Schindler dismisses the gratitude and chastises Stern for bringing the man to see him. Shortly after scolding, Schindler has to rescue Stern himself from a train bound for a death camp. Meanwhile, construction on the Plaszów labor camp begins and Amon Goeth appears. Goeth a sadistic Nazi is charged with building and running the camp. When Plaszów is completed, the Jews are evacuated from the Krakow ghetto and into the camp. From a hill high above the ghetto, Schindler and his girlfriend watch the destruction. He sees a little girl in a red coat—the only color in the otherwise black and white scene—walking through the carnage. This is one of the most memorable scenes, the little girl is alone in red, surrounded by a sea of drabness. As she walks aimlessly and afraid, death and destruction are all around her. A woman is gunned down behind her, a single-file line of men is executed as to be efficient with only one bullet. They mercilessly shoot every Jew they see. Schindler’s girlfriend begs him to go home, and Schindler is evidently stunned and mortifies by what he sees. Schindler’s motivation switch from profit to human sympathy and by lavishly bribing the SS officials. He convinces Goeth to allow him to build his own sub-camp to …show more content…
Sometime later Goeth is charged with evacuating Plaszów and exhuming and burning the bodies of 10,000 Jews killed there and at the Kraków ghetto. Schindler realizes that his workers, Stern included, face certain death at the hand of the Nazis, so he decides to spend his fortune to save as many Jews as he can. With that, he begins to make his list. He persuades Goeth to sell him his workers, as well as Goeth’s house cleaner Helen Hirsch, to work in his factory in Czechoslovakia. The men and women are transported to Czechoslovakia on two separate trains; suspense occurs when the train carrying the Jewish women are inadvertently diverted to Auschwitz. Schindler hurries to the scene and manages through a massive bribe of diamonds to have the women join the others in safety. A last minute disaster occurs when the SS officers attempt to stop the children from leaving as well, but Schindler convinces them he requires the hands of small children to polish artillery shells. The men and women reunite at the factory where they remain until the war’s end. Instead of making shells and saving his money he goes bankrupt to keep his Jews alive until the unconditional surrender of
His awareness grows, however, when Stern brings to see him a one armed man who wants to thank Schindler for saving him by making him “essential.” Schindler dismisses the gratitude and chastises Stern for bringing the man to see him. Shortly after scolding, Schindler has to rescue Stern himself from a train bound for a death camp. Meanwhile, construction on the Plaszów labor camp begins and Amon Goeth appears. Goeth a sadistic Nazi is charged with building and running the camp. When Plaszów is completed, the Jews are evacuated from the Krakow ghetto and into the camp. From a hill high above the ghetto, Schindler and his girlfriend watch the destruction. He sees a little girl in a red coat—the only color in the otherwise black and white scene—walking through the carnage. This is one of the most memorable scenes, the little girl is alone in red, surrounded by a sea of drabness. As she walks aimlessly and afraid, death and destruction are all around her. A woman is gunned down behind her, a single-file line of men is executed as to be efficient with only one bullet. They mercilessly shoot every Jew they see. Schindler’s girlfriend begs him to go home, and Schindler is evidently stunned and mortifies by what he sees. Schindler’s motivation switch from profit to human sympathy and by lavishly bribing the SS officials. He convinces Goeth to allow him to build his own sub-camp to …show more content…
Sometime later Goeth is charged with evacuating Plaszów and exhuming and burning the bodies of 10,000 Jews killed there and at the Kraków ghetto. Schindler realizes that his workers, Stern included, face certain death at the hand of the Nazis, so he decides to spend his fortune to save as many Jews as he can. With that, he begins to make his list. He persuades Goeth to sell him his workers, as well as Goeth’s house cleaner Helen Hirsch, to work in his factory in Czechoslovakia. The men and women are transported to Czechoslovakia on two separate trains; suspense occurs when the train carrying the Jewish women are inadvertently diverted to Auschwitz. Schindler hurries to the scene and manages through a massive bribe of diamonds to have the women join the others in safety. A last minute disaster occurs when the SS officers attempt to stop the children from leaving as well, but Schindler convinces them he requires the hands of small children to polish artillery shells. The men and women reunite at the factory where they remain until the war’s end. Instead of making shells and saving his money he goes bankrupt to keep his Jews alive until the unconditional surrender of