Schindler's List help???? If you've watched the move.?!
Question: So, I need to summarize the key points of the movie "Schindler's List", and I know that I should have but I didn't pay attention to the move in class. I was *distracted*. Sadly I need this done by tomorrow morning. So if someone has watched the movie I would really appreciate the help. If you can breifly (or not breifly) summarizing the key points of this movie. Best answer gets 10 points...
Answers: So, I need to summarize the key points of the movie "Schindler's List", and I know that I should have but I didn't pay attention to the move in class. I was *distracted*. Sadly I need this done by tomorrow morning. So if someone has watched the movie I would really appreciate the help. If you can breifly (or not breifly) summarizing the key points of this movie. Best answer gets 10 points...
Schindler was born in 1908 in the Sudetenland, in an area that would later become Czechoslovakia. As he grew to manhood, Schindler quickly developed a reputation as a carouser and playboy—a reputation founded in reckless actions that even his early marriage in 1927 to a devoutly religious woman named Emilie did not stop. His parents were prosperous in their hometown of Zwittau until the family business, a farm implement factory, went bankrupt in 1935. At this point, the elder Schindler left his wife, and Oskar was forced to seek his living elsewhere. As a salesman and a member of both the Nazi Party and German military intelligence, Oskar traveled alone to Krakow after the German military occupation of Poland in 1939. (This is the point at which Spielberg's adaptation of the novel begins.) In Krakow, Schindler bought an enamel factory that he then staffed with Jewish workers.
Shortly thereafter, the Germans forced the Jews of Krakow to move to a ghetto within the city and also built a forced labor camp named Plaszow outside the city. The extermination camp of Auschwitz began receiving Plaszow inmates during 1942. Throughout the escalating levels of Nazi persecution and brutality directed against Jews, Schindler was able to keep his well-treated Jewish workforce more or less intact, even after the Krakow ghetto was closed in 1943 and all Jews were forced into Plaszow, commanded by a ruthless man named Amon Goeth. Goeth and Schindler formed an unusual relationship: each exploiting the other for personal advantage but nevertheless reluctantly sharing some similarities of taste and lifestyle. (Spielberg emphasizes their duality of character throughout the middle portion of the film.)
Schindler's employees were able to work in his factory by day until 1944, when orders came to send all of Plaszow's Jews to Auschwitz. Through his close contacts with Goeth and others in the German military hierarchy, Schindler somehow managed to receive permission to relocate one thousand Jewish workers to another camp in the relative safety of Czechoslovakia. In one of the most amazing episodes of the Schindler legend, he even retrieved a group of his female employees from Auschwitz, where their train had been mistakenly diverted. At the Czechoslovakian camp, Schindler provided a haven for another two hundred or so escaped Jewish refugees. With the European war's end in May of 1945, the "Nazi war profiteer" Schindler and his wife were forced to flee the camp ahead of its Russian liberators.
After the war, Schindler moved from Austria to Argentina to West Germany, eventually leaving Emilie. He proved consistently unable to make any kind of living and in the end had to rely for daily survival on the financial largesse of the Jews he had so protected during the war. He also visited Israel yearly, all expenses paid by Jewish organizations and individuals. The Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, Yad Vashem, recognized Schindler as a Righteous Gentile in 1962. He died, perhaps predictably given his lifestyle, of liver failure in 1974 and was buried in a Catholic cemetery in Jerusalem.
Oskar Schindler is a vain, glorious and greedy German businessman who becomes unlikely humanitarian amid the barbaric Nazi reign when he feels compelled to turn his factory into a refuge for Jews. Based on the true story of Oskar Schindler who managed to save about 1100 Jews from being gassed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. A testament for the good in all of us. Written by Harald Mayr {marvin@bike.augusta.de}
The true story of Czech born Oskar Schindler, a businessman who tried to make his fortune during the Second World War by exploiting cheap Jewish labour, but ended up penniless having saved over 1000 Polish Jews from almost certain death during the holocaust. Written by Rob Hartill
The true story of Oscar Schindler, a German businessman who owns a factory. He witnesses the horrifying visions of the Holocaust and the toll it takes on the Jewish people. Eventually, he creates a list of over 1100 Jews whom he saves from death. Written by David Landers {dml@gwis.com}
"Schindler's List" is the based-on-truth story of Nazi Czech business man Oskar Schindler, who uses Jewish labor to start a factory in occupied Poland. As World War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more and more clear, Schindler's motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and he is able to save over 1100 Jews from death in the gas chambers.
Go rent the movie...you had all weekend to do this so your lack of planning is not our problem. Develop better study habits and pay attention to the classwork, not the cute boy.
Oskar Schindler is a vain, glorious and greedy German businessman who becomes unlikely humanitarian amid the barbaric Nazi reign when he feels compelled to turn his factory into a refuge for Jews. Based on the true story of Oskar Schindler who managed to save about 1100 Jews from being gassed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. A testament for the good in all of us. By the end of the war, he's saved all those Jews. He could have saved more humans by selling a ring, a car, etc....This movie is a tribute to him as they do a ceremony for him at the end.
German industrialist grows a conscious and saves as many jewish people as he can from Nazi clutches.
"distracted"?
ONE KEY POINT: In the beginning of the movie (which is based on a true story), we see Nazi Czech business man Oskar Schindler use cheap Jewish labor to start a factory in occupied Poland. He is a charismatic and vain person who is a greedy but a savy businessman. His relationship with his employees is probably just that, employer to employee and nothing more. As World War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more and more apparent, Schindler's motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and determination to ultimately save as many Jews from death in the gas chambers as he can. He finds Itzhak Stern to be a loyal friend, confidant, and one to be admired for his equal role in trying to save as many of his fellow Jews as possible. By the end of the movie, the two men had become mutually respected allies who had attained a common objective and had became dear friends for life in the process. Oskar Schindler lost all his fortune during the war years and yet his only regret was that he couldn't have saved more Jews.