Schindlers List Review

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Schindler`s List
They believe in the Torah. They are waiting for the Savior to come. They honor
the Sabbath. They are Jews and they were persecuted.
Schindler’s List is a brilliant movie about a horrid time in history. This movie was
about the Holocaust, a period in history where Jews were persecuted by the Germans. It
was also about Oscar Schindler, a wealthy man who manufactured war supplies. Schindler
was a Jewish man himself, however, the Germans did not execute. They did not execute
him because he supplied the war weapons that the Nazis would use to exterminate the
Jews, whom they felt were worthless. In fact, Schindler was popular among the German
soldiers because he made them think that he was against the Jewish people.
That, however, could not be further from the truth. Schindler aided the Jews in
many ways. To have your name on the list that Schindler compiled, meant that you left the
concentration camps and went to work in the factories where you were treated properly.
Once at the factories, you made defective war supplies. For example, one would make a
gun where the trigger would not work, therefor when a Nazi went to kill someone with
their gun it would not be able to fire bullets.
As one can readily see, Schindler assisted the Jews in a plethora of ways. I think
that he helped the Jewish people because he knew that he was one of them. Even though
the Nazis were his “friends”, the only thing that separated him from them was his money.
In the beginning, perhaps Schindler did not do as much as one could have done, but I
assume that he realized that being a bystander is just as wrong as participating in the actual
killings. I don’t think that Oscar Schindler did any of this for recognition, and because of
that I think his motives were only to improve the Jews conditions. Obviously, Shindler’s
goal was to save as many Jews as possible and because of that he was an amazing and
courageous ...