"Schindler's List" is a 1993 black and white film directed by Steven Spielberg. This Hollywood version of the holocaust is a true story about a man named Oscar Schindler who saved thousands of lives. He was a business man at the time that employed more then a thousand Jews who slave worked in his factory. By doing this he saved all of his employee’s l from getting killed. He didn’t have to pay them due to the fact that they were Jews. This film was different from the documentary because it was acted out but it still showed us what really happened to the Jews. Many were held in concentration camps where they were tortured, experimented on, killed, and buried in mass graves or cremated in ovens.
The most powerful scenes in the movie were when the families got to Auschwitz and were separated. This scene was the most powerful in the movie, because females and males were separated. Mothers and sons were separated and never to be seen together again because they would have to go there separate ways in the camp. Kids would be taken away from parents and would be killed in other camps. The strong and healthy people survived because they would be able to work and help out, while the weak were killed and thrown away because they were no use and wouldn’t be able to work. Little kids were also killed because they were too young and weren’t able to work. Another scene that shocked me was the way children were killed. They would hide in any place in order to survive. They were terrified of dyeing and being separated from there families. There was a shocking seen through out the movie that showed a little girl in a red dress that was lost from her mother. She ends up in a wheelbarrow with other dead children. Some images that will stay with me are the dead bodies laying on the ground and the kids being killed. It is cruel to see little innocent kids die for something that they shouldn’t be blamed for. These horrifying and terrible scenes are the ones that touched me the most.
