Schindler's List
Six million Jewish residents of Eastern Europe were exterminated during the Holocaust of the 1940's. Families were taken out of their homes and put into ghettos, which were large prison type establishments that housed dozens of people in one small apartment. They were then separated from their families, "men to the left and women to the right", and were placed in concentration camps, where most of them were killed and cremated. In 1993, Steven Spielberg directed a film, Schindler's List, that depicted the life of one man who risked his life and money to save the few Jewish families he could. This man, Oskar Schindler, ran a factory, which kept the prisoners from being sent to their death. The horror that this group of people had to go through at the hands of the Nazis is shown extremely well by even a few of the dramatic moments in this film. At the beginning of the film, there is a scene where the Jews are made to leave their homes and move to the ghetto. They pack all the belongings they can fit in one suitcase except for their gold, silver, and anything else that was of great value, which was taken by the SS soldiers. There is one specific family in this scene that is from the richest part of the town. They are havin
When the female inmates are supposed to be taken to Schindler's factory they are "accidentally" brought to Auschwitz, the most deadly of all the camps. The women are taken into rooms where all their hair is chopped off, and then told to take off all of their clothes and hand them over. They enter a shower room where they are told to take a shower. Back at their first camp a woman told a story about how Jews were killed in the supposed shower rooms, but were actually gas chambers. The women were scared when they entered that room because they thought they were about to die. The look of the women's faces as they stare up at the faucets waiting for their death to come is so horrifying that many of the audience has to turn away. Suddenly water falls down on them and they are relieved to know they are alive. Some are still unsure if they will survive the night at Auschwitz. The worst scene of all, by the audience's reaction, is when the camp is being deserted and all the prisoners have to be killed. The audience is shown scenes of the stronger workers shoveling dead bodies into large pits, which are used as graves. The viewer sees women picking up skeleton skulls and throwing them aside and men heaving large skeletons into the pits without caring. The audience sees people carrying wheelbarrows overflowing with dead bodies towards the mountain of corpses that are being burned. Prisoners are also being made to lift the bodies up to the conveyor belt that leading to the mountain. To see the bodies falling off the belt and into the fire is a tragic event to watch. The towns nearby have a sudden weather change. The townspeople see what appears to be snow falling from the sky. When Oskar Schindler touches the falling debris he realizes that it is really ashes from the fire. The community does not seem to care but just that the Jews are gone. This scene is the most sickening of the entire movie because it shows many non-Jew German people who are prejudiced against the Jews and seemingly not caring that Jews are being murdered by the thousands. g the hardest time trying to decide what to bring and what not to bring because they own so many lovely things. After they have decided, t
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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