Thursday, March 26, 2009

Film Lesson: Schindler's List

The film, "Schindler's List," illustrated the Holocaust by showing how cruel and upsetting of what the German soldiers did to the Jews. In the film, it showed when the Jews were forced to move to the ghetto and they had to share the houses in the ghetto with other Jews even though they were rich. The scenes that were most powerful to me as a viewer watching the film was when the German soldiers would line a few Jews behind each other and shoot only one bullet and that one bullet killed some of them and the Jews behind them that didn't get shot would get shot one at a time. Then there was this other scene that was very sad to me was when the little children from one of the camps were being separated from their families because they were going to get killed and some of the kids that ran away went into hiding especially hiding in the disgusting toilets.
Another scene that was messed up was when a Jewish architect woman came up to the German Commandant and said if they wouldn't take down the building and rebuilt it again then the building will collapse because the foundation on the other side wasn't good. The commandant said to her that she was very smart like the Karl Marx himself and he made one of the German officers to shoot her. At the labor camps, after lots of Jews were dead and cremated, the Jews had to bury the bodies and burn the buildings so that no evidence was left. The images that will stay with me was the little girl with the red dress, the Jews that worked for Schindler in the factory, and Schindler because he was a good man and saved many Jews.

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