Assigned Blog #3

The movie I watched was Schindler's List which was based on the true story of a German businessman named Oskar Schindler. Krakow is town that has a Jewish ghetto and Oskar moves to Krakow to make money from the Jews and their relocation. The movie starts out at a party where Oskar gains popularity among the SS officials so that he can open up his own factory. He ends up receiving a factory that manufactures army kits.
He convinces one of the Jews on the Jewish Council, Itzhak Stern, to help him run the factory and he received loans from other Jewish businessmen so that he could open up the factory. Itzhak is responsible for finding Jewish workers to work at the factory. In order to keep as many Jews as possible working in the factory, Itzhak forges working documents. Then during the winter an SS officer, Amon Goeth, orders that all the Jews in the ghetto are rounded up and divided into two groups, ones that are able to work and ones that are unable or elderly or ill. Oskar befriends Amon and later in the movie Oskar is able to buy back his workers and establish a new factory, this time in his hometown of Moravia. In Moravia Oskar is able to keep his workers safer from the Nazis that are terrorizing Poland. Oskar and Itzhak create a list of Jews that they want sent to the factory, rather than being sent to the concentration camp of Auschwitz. However the women from the list are accidentally sent to Auschwitz where their heads are shaved and they are sent into what they think is a gas chamber. However the room turns out to be a shower room and all of the women are taken back to the new factory by Oskar after he bribes one of the SS officers. At this new factory the workers product defective artillery. He makes sure that all of the artillery produced is this way so that none of the shells would ever be used to kill one of the Jews. After manufacturing defective shells, Oskar quickly loses money and he becomes bankrupt. After Germany surrenders, Oskar informs his Jewish workers that he must flee because he was part of the Nazi party and because he is now considered a war criminal. He also tells his workers to go find their friends and family because they are now free. That same night Oskar pack and plans to leave with his wife. However just as he is about to leave his workers present him with a gold ring. Engraved on the ring is, "Whoever saves one life saves the world entire". Oskar is overcome with emotion when he regrets not trying harder to save more Jewish lives. The next morning the Jews who worked at the factory are told that they are liberated. The movie ends with all the actors and the people they play in the movie walking past Schindler's grave and laying a stone on the tomb of the man who saved their lives. 

I really enjoyed the movie Schindler's List. It started out fairly slow and kind of hard to understand, but as the movie progressed it became very intense and heartwarming. I can't believe what this man, Oskar, went through to save so many lives. I did some research and discovered that he save more than 1200 Jews, and that is a truly amazing thing. I give this movie a 10 because even though it started out slow, in the end everything came together in a truly remarkable film. 

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  • Great job! You are a very good writer!

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