Kraków Ghetto

Oskar Schindler wasn’t always the altruistic man that many people picture him as. Many people described him as a greedy, selfish man who’s only desire was to earn money. Schindler, who began the business purely for the purpose of personal gain, was like any other entrepreneur at the time, an industrialist who used the war as an opportunity to make money, but somewhere along the way something in him changed. After this sudden change of heart, he began to help shield his Jewish workers from all…

Beginning with the rise of Adolf Hitler and the start of World War II in 1939, Jewish people, along with others deemed “undesirable” by the Nazi Party, were persecuted and punished throughout Germany and rest of Europe. Many were forced into ghettos or sent to concentration camps where they were forced to perform labor or were instantly killed. Though the Nazi party kept a tight hold on their power through the use of the military and secret police, many resistance movements were formed across…

The movie truly paints him in a heroic light. Placed in the late 1930s-40s, Oskar Schindler was a Czech man that bought Rekord Ltd, a previously jewish owned business. With that business, he employed over 1000 jews from the Krakow ghetto. Later, numerous Jews of the ghetto were being liquidated to Camp Plaszow. In order to avoid the deportation of his workers, he bribed the officers and established relationships with them and succeeded. In order to make his company running and useful to the war…

On January 30, 1933, Adolph Hitler rose to power as the head of the right-wing National Socialist German Workers Party (called "the Nazi Party" for short). His election came with the hope that he would be able to lead Germany out of its grave political and economic crisis. Of the many policies that Hitler enacted once in power many of them were directed toward limiting individual freedoms such as freedom of press, speech, and assembly. While limited rights on a national scale were the beginning…

The story entitled Prisoner B-3087, Alan Gratz, starts off in Krakow, Poland. The main character Yanek and his family are Jewish and have a great life in their that cozily fit the three members of the family. Then one day everything changed. The nazi’s decieded to make there town that they lived in into a ghetto. Soon, there were three other families that lived with them. To get food they had to wait in long lines and have rations cards, Every time they went outside, they risked getting caught…

Prisoner B-3087, also known as Yanek Gruener is 10 years old boy when the Nazis invade his hometown of Krakow Poland and turn his town into a Jewish ghetto. Him and his family are forced to share a small apartment with three other families. Slowly the Jews rights and businesses are being stripped away from them and soon they are being starved and beaten. The Germans start searching homes and collecting people to take away. When Yanek turned 13 everything was stripped from him, his family, his…

Schindler’s List was written by Steven Zaillian and according to imdb.com, “Schindler’s List adapted from the novel Schindler's Ark written by Thomas Keneally. This movie was directed by Steven Spielberg and was made in 1993.” Oskar Schindler the main character was the protagonist of the film Schindler’s List, was a German businessman and opportunist who strived to receive the benefit from the German invasion of Poland. In the end he saved over a thousand Jews from dying during the Holocaust.…

Adolf Hitler was the mastermind behind the Nazi organization. He built the party from the deprived economy of Germany and turned the Nazis into a world power that will be remembered forever in history. T Once Hitler was released from prison he revived the Nazi party. Hitler was the sole leader of the Nazi party and members swore loyalty to him upon death. They began to become a mass movement from 27,000 members in 1925, the Party grew to 108,000 in 1929(University of south FL.) the SA was the…

prejudice. Throughout the storyline the film shows horrific events that occurred to the Jews. The film communicated this idea by using multiple scenes that highlight how ugly prejudice can get. One scene that highlights this is the ‘Liquidation of the Krakow Ghetto’…

nightmare that was to come. None of us did” (Gratz 2). In this quote, Yanek is reflecting on his past and really trying not to give up. Yanek is being as brave as he can even though it may not be very easy right now. "I had survived the work gangs in the ghetto. Baked bread under cover of night. Hidden in a pigeon coop. Had a midnight bar mitzvah in the basement of an abandoned building. I had watched my parents be taken away to their deaths” (Gratz 126). Yanek says this quote when they arrive…