Oskar Schindler

This implies that Spielberg changed the story about Oskar for his and the audience’s benefit. Filmmakers also constantly use the same memory when creating the films. Ebbrecht argues, “This ongoing repetition creates a situation in which the iconic images become embedded as part of our personal memory” (90). This makes Holocaust films washed out because filmmakers don’t have another way to produce these types of films. Filmmakers also pushed Holocaust survivors to tell their stories even though…

“When words fail, music speaks.” ~ Anonymous Music, known as the world’s “universal language,” is something that is used in many different forms to convey various forms of emotion. For example, music can convey emotions through the usage of the film industry with the composition of film scores. Furthermore, orchestral music serves as a form of music in which emotions can be conveyed as well. Though rarely seen, music can also convey emotion to those who sneak illegal drinks, such as men and…

“I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn’t stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do.” this is a quote from Oskar Schindler, a German spy who helped save many Jews during WWII. As this quote states, Nazism is a method of thinking that promoted racial hierarchy made infamous by Adolf Hitler during his reign as Fuehrer or leader of Germany. Hitler was introduced to this way of thinking from…

Furthermore, to promote positive identities I want to encourage those around me to also act in goodness. Oskar Schindler, during the Holocaust, arranged to have many Jewish men work in his factory and he ultimately saved their lives. Throughout the film, his workers consistently tell him “you are good, you are good” (Spielberg and Zaillian 1993). Schindler realizes, perhaps through consistently being identified by others a ‘good,’ that he wanted to save as many lives as he could…

thousands of unauthorized visas in order to let an accounted for 6,000 Jews avoid territories in Japan that had been occupied by the Nazi party. In contrast, many Americans have heard of other people who protected the Jews in the holocaust like Oskar Schindler, who only protected about 1,200 Jews by making them work in his factories. Artifacts that can be traced back to Sugihara and other people who protected Jews in the Holocaust will be put on display in the Illinois Holocaust Museum and…

distress when amidst fighting. In conclusion, people who go through battle are never the same due to the psychological damage, which often manifest into post traumatic stress disorder, physical wounds and desensitization. During the film, Oskar Schindler changes from a narcissistic individual who only thinks of money and women, to a caring and compassionate person that is determined to help Jewish people escape the violence and horrors inflicted by the Nazis. This change is caused by…

There are many things that you must remember throughout high school, such as quadratic functions, parts of a cell and the inner workings of the 18th Century, but none of these are as important as lessons learned in English 10. Why is that, you may ask? The reasoning for that is simple. Everything listed above are things you can live without knowing, but the themes of Prejudice from each work of literature learned in English 10 can be applied to everyday life. That is why, among many other…

It has been said that the best thing about humanity is humans, and the worst thing about humanity is humans.1 When mankind can be so beautiful yet so horrendous simultaneously, the best way to describe this contradiction is to conclude that humanity is a paradox; a paradox that plays out during the most horrific and the most alluring of times in history.2 During World War II, Hitler and the Holocaust demonstrated the ugly things a human can do, but the thousands of people that aided and…

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird portrays the prejudiced attitudes and racism, financial trouble as well as the good and evil sides of human beings where in some events fear and tradition can overrule morals. These points are clearly shown in the twentieth century where many events took place such as the Great Depression, Civil Rights Movement and World War 2. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel set in the 1930s that is told in the point of Scout Finch as she matures and loses the innocence of…

with all the people that believed Hitler 's thinking, there were many who stuck to their beliefs and helped out Jews by hiding them in their houses and sneaking them across borders. Several thousand Jews were rescued by business owners, such as Oskar Schindler, who posed Jews as factory workers and smuggled them out of the country by creating fake identities for them. Even though the number of Jews saved was much less then the number murdered, it is reassuring that not everyone living in…