Examples Of Inhumane In Schindler's List

Humanity- humaneness; benevolence. To be human is to show or have compassion. Steven Zaillian screen played the film “Schindler’s List”. A film that consisted of a majority of inhumane actions during a malevolent time period. The Holocaust (1933-45) was a dark moment in history. This film demonstrated this time period to a tee with inhumane, prejudice, and horrific actions. While watching this film, there was a specific scene that stuck out to me as disturbing. This scene was the liquidation of the ghetto’s. SS officers and police authorities were ordered to liquidate the ghetto. During this operation the goal was the termination of around two thousand Jews, and to send around another two thousand to work. Ripping them from their belongings, family members, and their freedom. Police transported

Realistically and portrayed in the film, Jews were not depicted as equal. Stating that the Jews were treated unfairly would be an understatement. Even the survivors left the camps looking anything but alive. Looking into the mirror they witnessed a corpse with a beating heart. Going into the Second World War, all freedom once had by the Jews was terminated. Conditions were hard, and death could be had at any moment. The Jewish population was given two options. To work, or to die. Some not even given the first option. Leaders of the work camps could do what they pleased, when they pleased, and the Jews had no say in the matter. Adults and children were worked, stripped of their families, their freedom, and their happiness. The healthy were chosen to work, and the ill and elderly were killed off were exterminated without question. The living conditions were tough, struggling by day to survive. Starvation, sickness, and having to fend for yourself to extreme means just to move along to the next day. Many believed the only real escape during this tragic time period was