He Who Saves The Life Of Oskar Shindler

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Primarily, The movie is centered on Oskar Schindler, who came to Germany to take advantage of the cheap labor force of Jews. Since he doesn’t know how to properly run a company, Schindler enlists Itzhak Stern to deal with the administration of the company. Meanwhile, Amon Goth initiated construction of the labor camp Paszow. Soon after, the SS transport and massacre everyone at the Krakow ghetto. Seeing this, Schindler is moved and not only convinces Goth to let him build a sub-ghetto for his workers, but actively starts to save jews from certain death. This, in turn, spawned the document containing names of Jewish employees at his Polish factory who were designated as "essential workers" and thus spared from the concentration camps. From this point on Schindler spends almost all of this fortune trying to save as many Jews as he possibly can. When the war ends, he tells his workers they are free, but he is now deemed a war criminal and must flee at midnight. As he and his wife are leaving, the workers give him a letter explaining he is not a criminal to them,and a ring engraved with the Talmudic quotation, "He who saves the life of one man, saves the world entire." Schindler is touched but also overcome with sorrow, feeling he could've done more to save many more lives. …show more content…

The movie concludes with a final scene in color, of the actual Holocaust survivors and their actors placing rocks on Oskar Schindler’s tombstone, and Liam Neeson, who played Schindler, placing a rose on the tombstone

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