Kraków

screenwriter, and autobiographer. Roman Polanski was born in Paris on August 18, 1933, to Polish-Jewish family. When he was three years old, his family returned to Poland, settling in Krakow. During World War II, when Poland was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany, Polanski's family was forced to live in the Krakow ghetto, a cramped section of the city where all Jews were forced to live. Polanski escaped from the ghetto when he was eight years old after his father cut a hole in a barbed-wire…

Ludmile wasn't on the list but she went because she wanted to be with her mother. When they got there they saw about 700 Jews and kept them there for a few hours and then loaded them in trains. Ludmile and her mother were taken to Krakow. Ludmile was forced to live in the Krakow ghetto and her mom was sent to the Warsaw ghetto. She worked in a factory at the plazos labor camp for a businessman who was a friend of the German industrialist Oskar Schindler. On October 1944, Schindler attempted to…

Schindler's List released on 15th December 1993 a film directed by the famous Steven Spielberg that tells the real-life story of Oscar Shindler. The film highlights the unwatchable series of events that took place in World War II. It is set in Krakow ghetto, Shindler's list is a film based on the life of Oscar Shindler who was a member of Nazi Party and German industrialist. It is a true story based on one remarkable man who outweighed Hitler and the Nazi to save as many Jews from the gas…

that year was colored. In addition, he refuses to accept a salary for making the movie, instead, he chose to donate the profit he made to the Shoah Foundation to honor and commemorate the survivors of the holocaust. It is fascinating how the Plaszow-Krakow Labor camp was presented in the movie, because the movie set is actually located in the actual remnants of the Jewish Ghetto. The…

Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela, Harriet Tubman are all well known heroes around the world. However, one hero catches my eye, Oskar Schindler. Oskar Schindler was a German business man and apart of the Nazi Party for his benefit–not for their beliefs. This proves that anyone can really be a hero. You don’t have to be a saint like person to earn hero status. Oskar Schindler is a perfect example of this. He went from being an anti-hero to a hero with just a change of heart. He became an…

was this year that my wish has finally been granted. When we first arrived in Krakow, Poland, we went straight to the University of Economics where we will be staying for the week along with the other Regnum Christi members from Spain. When we got there, we were introduced to a very funny priest who briefed us about the World Youth Day and who gave us our IDs and kits. Our first day was spent going around Krakow and trying to check all the different programs that were prepared for the day.…

Its population numbered in 3.5 Million. Krakows jewish population alone numbered in 50,000. When the Nazis invaded poland, all the jews were forced into crowded ghettos. They were marched to and from work under armed guard. Jewish property and businesses were either burned or sold by the S.S…

over time (Miller, 2004:45). Schindler’s List is a film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg, which was released in 1993. The film takes place in Krakow during World War Two. During the start of the film, Polish Jews are being forced into Krakow ghetto’s by the German officials. Liam Neeson plays the role of Schindler, who comes to Krakow to create factories, where the cheap labour of Jews is easily accessible. As by orders, the ghetto is forcefully emptied, during which a massacre…

the war effort by mass producing pots for use in the war. He does this by employing Jews as workers, as they are less expensive to purchase than Poles are. As he makes more pots, Schindler turns a greater profit from his initial investment. When the Krakow ghetto is liquidated, Schindler’s position shifts to that of a bystander. He is not directly…

Oskar Schindler’s process of saving those Jews wasn’t an easy task. The Holocaust was one of the worst genocides of all time. “Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning ‘sacrifice by fire’” (www.ushmm.org). Which meant that people had to sacrifice by getting burnt and that’s what Adolf Hitler did during the massacre. It was the cause of the death of six million Jewish People. “Before the Second World War, population of Poland was 3.5 million. Today there are between 3,000 and 4,000 left” (www…