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OSKAR SCHINDLER This is the Story of a remarkable man who outwitted Hitler and the Nazi”s. Oskar Schindler was a german industrialist, former member of the Nazi party and possibly the most famous “Righteous Gentile” who is credited with saving as many as 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust. He saved more Jews than any other form the gas chambers and Nazi death traps. An ethnic german,and a man full of flaws like the rest of us, he was born on April 28, 1908 in Zwittau Austria - Hungary, what is…

Spielberg grips the viewer with numerous shocks and twists throughout. The film follows the main character Oskar Schindler as he encounters the realities of being a war profiteer during WWII. But during the key sequence the ‘Liquidation of the Krakow Ghetto’ he undergoes a pivotal change as he watches the events unfold with a birds-eye-view. The sequence opens with close-up shots of Amon Goeth and Oskar…

Oskar Schindler was a war hero who saved many Jews during the Holocaust, giving many of them a second chance at life. Oskar Schindler was born April 28, 1908 in Svitavy, which is in present-day Czech Republic. He started out as part of the Nazi party. In 1939 him and his family traveled to Krakow and got involved in the black market. He opened a factory that made German war goods and employed Polish Jews. these weren't his intentions at first but many jews were saved from concentration camps.…

Schindler 's List (Steven Spielberg, 1993) is perhaps one of the greatest films in the late twentieth-century cinema. It encapsulates the brutality of the Holocaust as it evokes memories of atrocities of the World War II and a sense of inability to save innocent people. The film is shot in monochrome as Spielberg thinks it is more "realistic" and “closer to [a] documentary” of that time (Shandler 156). According to Jeremy Maron, Schindler 's List should primarily be understood as a melodrama; a…

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 “righteous among the nations,” Oskar Schindler is accredited with saving as many as 1,100 Jews, allowing the 6,000 descendants the opportunity to live that they otherwise would not have had. Oskar Schindler, born on…

interesting but greedy business man by the name of Oskar Schindler who wanted to make a fortune from WWII. He began to protect his Jewish factory workers so it would stay in operation, however along the way he realized he was saving the innocent lives of men, women, and children. Arguments about Schilder’s intentions about rescuing the Jews are; he was a rescuer, he was impulsive, and was a narcissistic man. At the beginning, I had my mind set that Oskar Schindler was a Narcissist. This is…

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…

1,200 jews, that's how many jewish lives a man named Oskar Schindler saved during the holocaust in the 1940s. Oskar employed that many jews to keep them from harm. He even went as far as to employ children to keep them safe. Based on these reasonings, I believe that Oskar Schindler is the most deserving, of anyone, for a medal of honor. Oskar opened an enamelware factory in 1939. When jews started to be discredited, he decided to hire them as a way to improve his factory’s income. Jews were…

the 1940s when WWII was dominating Europe and the Nazis had total control of most of the continent, Poland was part of this massive facist dictatorship. The movie begins at the time when the Nazis began forcing the Polish Jews to move into ghettos. Oskar Schindler, a man who was a member of the Nazi party, sees what is being done to the Jews and decides to start an enamelware business where he recieves help from the Jews who he ultimately saves from deportations and ultimately death. Many key…

Jan Schlichtmann acted by john Travolta The movie Civil Action is about a certain case when a certain lawyer Jan Schlichtmann played by John Travolta is addressed by many sick families about a certain issue. He then goes into investigation and he soon finds out that this case is much bigger than he imagined it turns out that a leather company that could be responsible for many deadly cases of leukemia. I chose Jan Schlichtsmann because the character has a lot of tenacity and he shows it in the…