Schindler's List

A detailed Summary of Schindler's List

After watching the lengthy but stunning story of the Holocaust and the needless discrimination and extermination of the Jewish race, I had many immediate emotional responses during and after completing a movie that was rather hard to sit through, but which has now become my favorite movie. What strikes me most is the loss of innocence, such as the girl in the red coat. When her color was first shown in was in the ghetto and she was walking through the streets, not bothering anybody. She actually seemed happy and care-free, however, Oscar knew what was in for her and he despaired to think of what would happen to her. To him she represents the entire Jewish race, she represents a people that have done nothing to harm anyone. And then later, when Schindler sees her for the second time on a wheel barrow, being brought to the conveyer belt which leads to a mass of burning Jewish corpses, he realizes that if nothing is done to prevent this needless loss of innocence, the entire Jewish race will be wiped out from the face of the planet. At this point in the movie we begin to see how Oscar Schindler's attitude towards what is going on changes. At first he is simply a Nazi who wants to take advantage of war. He i

Schindler was definitely a righteous gentile. He saved hundreds of Jews and now those Jews have increased in number to over six thousand, known as the Schindler Jews. He risked being killed by his own party to save these people that were headed for despair. When a large mass of Jews was stuffed onto a train he took a hose and gave them water, preventing more deaths in a small action such as that. And although he knew that some members of the party such as the commandant started to become suspicious of what he was doing, he continued aiding the innocent but doomed race. Oscar Schindler did everything in his power to save the innocent and I don't think there was much more he could have done. Personally, if I were a member of the Nazi party at the time I don't believe I could have forced myself to do what he did. I would have wanted to save the Jews for I knew what was going on was immoral, but the fear of being caught and then killed would discourage me from doing anything of the kind. Schindler was a man with strong beliefs, guts, and courage. I found what he did to be truly inspiring and the most compelling parts of the movie were when he drew up the list of Jews, over eight hundred names, and at the very end when he cries and the Jews give him a ring to show their gratitude. As a whole, I found Schindler's List to be very distressing. I have been taught throughout my entire school career how badly the Jews were treated during the Holocaust, but now I realize how terrible it actually was. The most impressive scenes in the movie are also the most distressing and poignant ones which show the dreads and horrors of the Holocaust. Among the many is the scene where the Jews are have just been squeezed out of the ghetto but some have stayed in hiding places and dogs are used to find them. Then when the man accidentally steps on the piano keys, realizes he is going to die, and starts playing a piece, a scene of chaos commences as hiding Jews are found such as the many who is clinging to the bottom of a bed but then is found and shot over a hundred times. Another seen that is scary is when the girls are in the chamber, naked. We know that they will either be gassed or given showers. Then the light go out suddenly and screams are heard and then the val

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