Schindler’s List Extra Credit Lexi Goldberg 10/28/14 Schindler’s List starts with this scene of lighting candles for Shabbat. Then there is a prayer said over with candles. The scene is quick and closes out into a scene on a train where there is a sole family that is registering as being Jewish. This one table transforms into a huge group of people, all of which are registering. It was very powerful. Then in a hotel room, it shows Schindler and some of the items he begins to place the items on himself including a Nazi pin and then walks into what presumably is a nightclub. By the end of the night, he has treated a whole group of Nazis to drinks and some food. After that, the movie transitions to Schindler going to a place called a Judenrat. He indicates that he needs some …show more content…
His accountant, Stern refuses Schindler’s request, but Schindler is not taking no for an answer and meets with a guy named Poldek Pfefferburg and tells him he needs very nice items for the next few months. After this, the movie shows that the date is 03/20/1941 and Schindler goes in this nice new apartment. Finally, the Jewish investors with Stern, who Schindler had previously approached, accept Schindler’s request. The only thing is that they will receive items instead of money for the work they will do. Once the factory is set up and ready to go, Jews are hired and they are known as essential, which is huge because this allows them to avoid being sent away to the concentration camps that many Jewish people were forced to go to at the time. Stern (the accountant) realizes that this effort can save the Jewish people and starts hiring more and more Jews. Schindler does not know about this at first. After he figures it out, Stern is nearly sent to a camp and Schindler
Then Elie’s dad (Chlomo) finds out that the Germans are gonna ship the Jews somewhere (they don’t know yet). One early morning a nice cop warns the Wiesel family of the bad stuff that’s gonna happen. The Jews start packing their things. They start getting shipped out. Elie’s family isn’t picked to go on the first couple trains.
Elie vows to never be like the Rabbi's son and to never leave his father. The Jews continue marching until they arrive in Gleiwitz Juliek plays violin until he dies There is a selection and Elie and his father are sent to different sides, A commotion booms and his father is able to switch sides. They are sent on a train that makes constant stops to throw out the dead
The only time a specific reference to Jews is made is the mentioning of the Jewish student from Amsterdam. - Israeli view –it was seen more as a philosophical discussion rather than a presentation of the victims. No sense of personal sympathising (Nb Elie Wiesel, Night and Fog) – this could be to do with the historicising nature of the film and the medium itself. Night and Fog and Night both contribute to the commemoration and memory of the Holocaust. - Elie Wiesel also stresses the importance of relating what happened for its important place in our collective memory.
Eliezer began to lose faith in God and others around him. After a month Eliezer undergoes an foot operation. While he is healing in the infirmary he heard that Russian are a dancing and will liberate the camp so the Nazis decided to evacuate to Gleiwitz concentration camp in the middle of a snowstorm. The old and sick stayed but Eliezer and his father March with the other prisoners. Then rides a train to Buchenwald.
The novel ‘Night’ written by Elie Wiesel and the film ‘Schindlers List’ directed by Steven Spielberg, are both based in World War 2 and more specifically the holocaust and the attempted cleanse of the Jewish race. These two texts both heavily demonstrate the horrors and brutalities that the Jewish people had faced during the holocaust. The two depictions of these events have many similarities although one being word and the other being film, however they differ in perspective, Schindlers List showing an outside look at the events where Night is a first person experience. The two representations of the holocaust, although are opposites of perspective both do not shy away from showing the brutalities and the wickedness that took
In the end of the book when all of the jews were in the bus because they were going to
His experience does not just open his eyes to how heinous the Nazi’s are, but also to what unbelievable actions other Jewish people resort to. With the train transporting them to their demise, Elie realizes that the importance of societal judgements and morals began to fade from existence as he watches two young souls making love in a dark portion of the boxcar. They cast away all thought of possible opinions about them for that might be their last chance for love before reaching the Zyklon-B. Carelessness continues when an old lady with her son kicks off into hysteria and screams. She screams of burning chimneys, the ovens, of freeing her; she is unable to accept the thought of death. In all her racket, a few men attempt to silence her by beating her to near death, although she had already quieted down within the first blows.
He disregards the warnings about the Nazis coming (12). Instead of listening, he still decides to stay in Sighet because he said that he was “too old” (9). Before being taken to the concentration camps, he still does not want to hide and is fabricating excuses
Elie’s placid life changes quickly as the Germans begin to persecute Jews in other towns around his hometown. Many people around Elie continue to deny that these horrific events are reality, which certainly leads to confusion and shock when German officers appear in town and begin to organize the formation and construction of
Schindler 's Transformation Oskar Schindler, a greedy nazi who’d people not expect to ever do anything good had an amazing transformation in his life. He is smart and knows how to get his way. But when most people think rich people are greedy his transformation proves otherwise. Schindler changed in many ways throughout his story. He started out tricking people to make money but ended up saving many Jews and his actions touched the hearts of many people.
Holocaust Paper Throughout the course of the story, we see many changes in the relations. Eliezer and his father have a weak communication at the beginning of the novel. “My father rarely displayed his feelings,” (Wiesel, 2006, pg.4). Eliezer’s father has always been a very busy member of the community and would put others before his own family.
While Elie unwillingly makes his journey to the concentration camp a lady on the transport train starts to scream about a fire, “‘Look at this fire! This terrible fire! Have mercy on me!’ screeches Mrs. Schachter. Some pressed against the bars to see.
This portrays the awful conditions that the Jews had to bear in the concentration camps. Elie Wiesel woke up one morning to looking down to his father's cot and seeing “there lay another sick person. They
Then one day as the soldiers start loading up all of the Jews on trains again. They tell them that they 're going to a better place but somebody catches on and realize they were being sent to concentration camps to be killed off. As usual sylvia’s father comes up with a plan to save their little family, and a few others with children. Syvia 's family smuggled the children from cellar to cellar. Sylvia falls very weak because of the lack of food she’s been getting for so long.
The violence is graphic and brutal, with shots lingering on the dead and on the unthinkable acts performed by the Nazis liquidating the Ghetto. The moments that stick out as the most brutal in both works include the image of infants being tossed into a flaming ditch in Night (32), and the mountain of dead Jews in Schindler’s List . Both of these moments encapsulate the toll of the Holocaust, with Night showing the death of a symbol of innocence, and Schindler’s List showing the sheer amount of dead. Once inside the