Schindler’s List Movie Review
The Holocaust was an annihilation of over six million Jews and the movie Schindler’s List shed light on people like Oscar Schindler helped Jews escape the Nazi genocide regardless of the risk to themselves and their families. The movie focused on one of the most darkest and horrific period in history. Millions of Jews were killed because of their ethnicity and religious beliefs. Schindler’s list enables people to understand the plight of the Jewish people in spite of all the atrocities committed against them.
The movie revolves around a man called Oscar Schindler, whose main goal is to make money from the Jews relocation by attaining his own factory. He eventually procures a factory making army mess kits for the German military. Itzhak Stern a Jewish council member convinces several Jewish businessmen to lean Schindler the money to open the factory in exchange for small profits. Once Schindler has the funding to open the business, he hired workers from the Krakow ghetto, falsified documents to the government stating that the workers were needed for the war effort, so that these workers wouldn’t be sent to concentration camps or killed. As Schindler gained more wealth and power he had more experiences which tested his every moral fiber of his being and affected the decisions he made.
After the Nazi completed a new concentration camp in Plaszow, they received orders to exterminate all the Jews in the Krakow ghetto in which Schindler witnessed the slaughter. After witnessing various executions of innocent Jews, Schindler wrestled with his conscious and he could no longer ignore what was happening and decided to save as many Jews as he could. Schindler and Stern wrote up a list of names and offered money to a German commander to release the people and save their lives.
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