Kraków Ghetto

The Jewish Holocaust was not only a horrific event, it was one that will always be remembered. One brave man, Oskar Schindler, did as much as he could to save the Jewish people of Krakow from the misery of the Nazis. Oskar Schindler not only saved Jewish people from concentration camps and ghettos, but he also helped to nourish them and fought to keep them alive in his factory. Throughout the war, Oskar Schindler brought in many Jewish people to work for him. These people came to his factory…

Alexander Antonellis 7Z 12/6/14 Biography Oskar Schindler was born on April 28, 1908 in Svitavy, Moravia, what was then a German province in the Austro-Hungarian empire it now belongs to the the Czech Republic. Schindler grew up and attended grammar school in a region known as the Sudetenland. Schindler worked for his father, Hans Schindler, selling farm equipment. Schindler's father was the owner of a large factory. After his marriage in 1928 however Schindler left his father’s factory. To…

where a single family registers as Jews. The single table becomes many tables, and the single family becomes a large crowd. Close-up images of names being typed into lists provide a sense of the vast number of Jews arriving in Kraków. Oskar Schindler appears in his Krakow hotel room. His face is not shown but the focus of…

teach the views about history but also about what affects discrimination can have on the world. During the mid 1900’s, a time of extreme anti-Semitism, a businessman named Oskar Schindler, moved to Poland to gain control of businesses in the city of Krakow,…

Kim Diaz Humanities II/History II Mrs. Lamanteer 13 February 2015 Amon Goeth Amon Goeth was born in Vienna, Austria on December 11, 1908. He had a career as an author, since his family was involved and acclaimed in the book world. However, Goeth’s path changed when he joined a Nazi youth group at the age of 17. When Goeth was 22 in 1930, he joined the Austrian Nazi Party. That same year, he became affiliated with the Security Police, the Schutzstaffel (SS). Goeth also encountered two…

Schindler separated from his wife and moved to Krakow after the invasion of Poland. His new plan for making money was by creating merchandise for the men and women in the service in Germany. Schindler decided the best way to do this is to attain a factory previously owned by the Jews. Then, Schindler employed Jews from the nearby ghetto. All of a sudden, there was liquidation at the Krakow ghetto in March 1943. Schindler told them to stay at the factory overnight to avoid…

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…

diegetic sound combined with shadowy lighting to show his audience the horrible events that went on during the Holocaust. The use of diegetic sound during the Exhumation Scene added to the emotion and emphasised the cruelness of the Liquidation of the Ghetto. One example of diegetic sound was the roaring of the fire, it not only created a mood, it also emphasised the idea of how many corpses were being burnt. The significance of the ashes blanketing the Plaszow camp affects us a lot, and makes…

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…

unlikely humanitarian as he employs Jewish people for his factory as an attempt to save innocent lives. In the beginning Schindler has a business venture in Krakow to manufacture enamelware. Schindler decides for pragmatic reasons to hire Jewish refugees living in the Krakow ghetto. Suddenly the SS starts to exterminate the Jews living in the ghetto; his reaction to the mass murders was to employ and protect his workers so the German soldiers would not eliminate them. Doing so he is preventing…