Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Schindler's List


Schindler's List is about a man who has Jews working for him making pots and pans. He saved about 1200 people. In the movie, he gets Jews to work for him by telling them they can get out of the ghetto area and get better rations of food. Money is worthless during the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, the Nazis made concentration camps where they basically worked people until they died. In Schindler's List, they show them having to shovel snow, cleaning, and sometimes in a factory making nails. If they didn't work as hard as they could, the Nazis would push them to the ground and shoot them in the head.

How did Oskar Schindler save his workers? He had his workers live in the ghetto, but left to work in the morning so they didn't have to go to concentration camp. Oskar Schindler was a very generous man. He used all his money to save Jews from concentration camp to his factory, and to feed all of his workers. Today, he is seen as a hero during War World 2. After a while, Schindler had to bribe Nazis for food. Schindler's List is called "Schindler's List" because Oskar made a list of people he wanted to save from concentration camp. He paid for each individual, and it costed him a lot of money. He mainly chose people who have suffered and decided to buy them from the Nazis. Although, Oskar Schindler was a Nazi himself.

When the Red Army was advancing towards his facility in 1945, Schindler had to flee with only a gold ring. He was apart of the Nazis and was seen as a murderer. They did not no of his good deeds. After the war, Schindler went to Argentina, where he went bankrupt. He left his wife and daughter in Argentina and went to Germany to start a new buisness. After a series of failing buisnesses, he moved in with his friends. He died of a heart attack on October 9th, 1974. He was 66 when he died, and was surrounded by family and friends when he did.

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