Swing Kids Vs. School Ties

Swing Kids VS School Ties

“Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, anti-semitism still exist as the scourge of the world”(Eliot Engel). It’s been causing great trouble in the world ‘till now.Anti-semitism is a hatred of the Jewish people. This happened in Europe, mostly in Germany. Anti-semitism began in Germany, because of the Nazis.Two films were released in the 1990’s that deal with different issues involved anti-semitism. One titled “Swing Kids” which was set in Nazi Germany and tell the story of a group of teenage resisters who rebel by doing swing dance, but were forced to be involved with the Nazis anyways. The other film is titled “School Ties”. This film is set in the United States, but also deals with issues of

although , some of them got forced into joining the HJ. But joining the HJ made some of them like being in the HJ so much, they started to listen whatever they were ordered to do just to get whatever they want. And later on swing people got treated like Jews for protecting/defending them. In the film “School Ties” was about a Jewish quarterback that had a scholarship from a catholic school. In doing this, he had to hide the fact that he was a Jew. and he had to miss a Jewish tradition for a game.Later on his background have been discovered, which lead his team to harm him. For what I’ve seen in both films, i thought that the movie “School Ties” was a better film because of the fact that anti-semitism was showed more in the film. Another thing is that in the film “Swing Kids” the only jews shown was only when the Gestapo was taking away a Jewish person’s thing from her house. And in the movie “School Ties” the main character is actually a Jew. Although both film are important because it’s about anti-semitism. For instance, in “School Ties” when everyone in the school started harassing David for being a Jew. and in “Swing Kids” it showed the Gestapo kicking out Jewish people out of their houses. But I would recommend both of these film to others because it shows that not all Jews are bad, and after watching both films you would think of what made the Nazi hate Jews. And thinking about why people are judging them by their