Schindler's List Research Paper

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Title: Schindler’s List Essay I wore a broken heart for people living decades ago. This film made me feel as if I was a fly on the wall, like could’ve jumped right into their world. Schindler’s List gave me understanding between of fearing for your life, even though nothing I have experienced in my lifetime could compare. Schindler’s List gave me more of an open concept of what happened during the holocaust. Schindler’s List, a Steven Spielberg film, has been one of the greatest informing and interesting movies only on a segment of the holocaust. Throughout the movie there stood many symbols and discussions that filed in the back of my mind. Such as, the little girl in the red coat, death, road paved with headstones, Oskar Schindler’s …show more content…

Schindler perceives the red coat as a cry for help of the innocent. The nameless little girl walks around as if there is no violence surrounding her as she slips away into a door. Later, spots her tiny departed body wrapped with the red coat in a burn mountain of bodies, this is where I began to see a change in Schindler. Death was nothing new to the Jewish community if you weren’t essential. The one-armed man who continuously praises Oskar Schindler for his job and making him essential to the cause. A Nazi officer later shoots the one-armed man in the head, after he persisted shoveling snow. The lady engineer who tells Amon Goeth about a building mistake. Another shot to the head, another red patch of snow. The piles of personal items of Jews, taken before boarding onto trains being told to leave baggage on the floor. Crowds of family pictures, jewelry, clothes, brushes, and shoes. Shoes left a permanent underlining in my mind. At the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. I visited had an open casing of shoes. If death had a smell it would be the wall of shoes. I’ll never fail to remember the different size shoes and the aroma burning my nose. Shoes never have made such an impact on me, the dress shoes of a possible business man, little fainted pink strapped shoes of somebody’s daughter. Every pair of shoes represents a victim and every victim