Comparing Schindler's List And Night By Elie Wiesel

Never shall I forget any one of the atrocities in Schindler's List by Steven Spielberg and Night by Elie Wiesel. During the Holocaust, the Nazis strip the Jewish people of not only their identities, but also of their dignity. They show no humanity to these people, and they treat them as though they are substandard to the rest of the population. One cannot just remember only one thing from the movie or the memoir, because forgetting some part of their sadistic acts is the same as allowing it to happen again. To begin, one of the especially cruel acts that etches itself in one’s mind for eternity is when Schindler breaks down at the end of the movie because he wants to sell his other possessions in order to save more Jewish people. He feels immense responsibility and self-reproach for not rescuing more people, but the Nazis show no penitence whatsoever for their

Although this elderly man is cheerful to just have a job from Schindler, the Nazis just laugh at him. They consider him to be “twice as useless” because he only has one arm. How can these people be so callous as to bring themselves to murder someone, even though that person did absolutely nothing wrong? Moreover, one of the block leaders in the concentration camps advises Elie on page 110, “‘Don’t forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every man for himself, and you cannot think of others. In this place there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone.’” The Nazis take away their prisoners’ self-identity by splitting up families and giving rise to this “every man for himself” mentality. How can any child bring himself to forget about his family in order to survive? These evil people force them to choose survival over their loved ones, because those who choose the latter condemn themselves to a painful death in a gas