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 December 1939, Poland was being torn apart by the savagery of the Holocaust. Oskar Schindler took his first faltering steps from the darkness of Nazism towards the light of heroism. “If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car,” he said later of his wartime actions, “wouldn't you help him?” Poland had been a relative haven for Jewish people and it numbered over 50,000 people, but when Germany invaded, destruction began immediately and it was very harsh. Jews was forced into crowded ghettos, randomly beaten and humiliated, and continuously murdered for no reason.
The Holocaust was a horrible event in history that will scar humanity forever. With the events of the Holocaust being experienced by millions there are many different perspectives of said events. One such perspective is presented in Night, a memoir written by Elie Wiesel about his experiences as a young Jewish boy during the Holocaust. Another perspective is presented in Schindler’s List, a film directed by Steven Spielberg (based on the novel Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally) about Oskar Schindler, a gentile who saves over one thousand Jewish lives during the Holocaust. Both pieces show heart wrenching stories of the abuse of a group of people in different ways, each using different mediums to convey their points.
June 11, 1941, a new shipment of Jews arrived in Auschwitz today from Minsk Mazowiecki, a ghetto in Poland. Among the people who arrived was 13 year old Jakob Frenkiel and his brother Chaim. All who arrive in Auschwitz have to give the officers everything that was on them at that time. Frenkiel shares with reporters about his valuable possession he had to give away. “I had with me the locket my parents had given me for my birthday with their pictures in it.
The theme of ‘The inhuman treatment of people’ is important because it was not fair to the Jews to get treated horribly just because they were hated for no reason. For example, Jews were beaten, treated like slaves, killed, and starved. Jews were treated terrible because of the Germans hate for them, for instance, the scene on Chapter 4, Pg.
The Holocaust took place during the years 1933 to 1945. It was an attempt to remove all of the Jews, and other smaller groups such as homosexuals and Jehovah's Witnesses, which lived in the country of Germany. The events that took place during the holocaust were lead by a German man named Adolf Hitler. Schindler's List is a film about the Holocaust from a man named Oskar Schindler's perspective as a leader of a concentration camp. The film displays the five stages of the Holocaust.
During this time period, the Jewish people were taken out of their homes, some were even killed, and put in Concentration Camps by German Nazis. These camps forced Jews to work in very dangerous and unsanitary areas. German soldiers were harsh and brutal to these people and showed no respect for them. The living conditions for the Jews were horrid and due to these conditions, this led to a large percentage of decrease in the population. A quote that was significant to this book is, “in the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.”
This question may run through our minds, but in reality, Adolf Hitler, a Catholic German man who was the head of the Nazi parties decided to get rid of Jews. The reason is because their beliefs strongly interfered with the purity and community beliefs of Germans. At the same time in Schindler’s list Oskar, may have been part of the Nazi party, but his actions, and feelings changed throughout the movie giving the audiences a clear view of how hope changed him. When in the beginning, Oskar really wanted to start earning more money by starting a company and having Jews work in it. For him to begin this, he needed a good accountant, so he found and pulled over a Jew named, Stern.
Oskar Schindler A man named Oskar Schindler actually saved more than 1,200 Jews in the Holocaust. He persuaded the Nazis to save them and transferring his workers so they don 't suffer the death camps. He is a very brave man for what he did. By 1935 a lot of Sudeten Germans joined the pro-Nazi Sudeten German Party. Schindler joined too-not for the love of Nazis, but because it made business sense for prevailing wind.
The Jews are treated terribly and are made to work in extreme conditions all because they were considered as outcasts for their religion. First, they are taken from their homes as in the story it says,”The beloved objects that we had carried with us from place to place were now left behind in the wagon and, with them,finally, our illusions''. (?) All the jews were taken from their homes and sent to work in concentration camps that treated them horribly. People who were Jews began to feel afraid and some even changed their identities to not get caught which shows the punishing experience in being judged as an outcast because of how people are fearing being a Jew.
Schindler did some very bad things in the beginning, he used slave labor for his profit and he schmoozed many people for his benefit. Though near the end he still schmoozed to get what he wanted, now it was for the benefit of the Jews that he was saving. Schindler change of character and attitude saved 1200 Jews. Schindler changed a lot and because of that many generations of the jews he saved lived
Oskar Schindler is a hero because he not only risked his life and spent his fortune to save 1,300 Jews from death during the Holocaust, he also gave the world faith in humanity (Bulow). Schindler, a war profiteer, always had an angle on making money, so when World War II began, his reputation for being a Nazi helped him become close to the SS leaders who assisted him in acquiring a factory near Plaszow, Poland (Bulow). Schindler used cheap Jewish labor to make his fortune skyrocket until he truly saw the horrors of the Holocaust (“Oskar Schindler”). He witnessed the murders of innocent people in the Plaszow death camp. There, a Jew would be lucky to live 4 weeks (Bulow).
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.
Rescue During the Holocaust millions of Jews were persecuted for multiple years for no reason. Some were worked and beaten until death. During the time of prosecution many people and countries worked hard to rescue the Jews. Individuals risked their life in order to rescue them.
The film Schindler 's List stands among the most successful and noteworthy Holocaust films of the twentieth century. It portrays the moral development of one Oskar Schindler, a rising Nazi businessman, who saved roughly one thousand Jewish prisoners of the Krakow Ghetto by employing them at his factory. By heavily bribing Nazi officials and outsourcing his production, Schindler was able to his deem his Jewish workers essential to the war effort, saving them from otherwise certain death. Like all films, Schindler 's List has its strengths and weaknesses. The director 's decision to begin in full color with candles which fade into black and white not only helps the viewer enter a solemn and serious mindset, but it also minimizes distractions as to focus solely on the film 's message while the story unfolds.
