The Little Girl In Schindler's List

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“September 1939, the German forces defeated the Polish Army in two weeks. Jews were ordered to register all family members and relocated to major cities. More than 10,000 Jews from the countryside arrive in Krakow daily” [1]. Oskar Schindler, a German member of the Nazi Party, arrives to the to the city as well to make his fortune from the war, he staffs his factory with Jewish workers for basic reasons, but when the Nazi Party begins to exterminate Jews in the Krakow area, Schindler organizes his workers his workers to be protected to keeps his factory operational, in doing so he begins to realize he is also saving innocent lives. Probably the most heart moving scene in Steven Spielberg’s film, Schindler’s List, is the little girl in the Having human beings being gunned down, exposing this little girl, Schindler is touched and connects with her, being surrounded, himself, amongst all the chaos, touching his soul to a deep meaning, he begins to feel the pain of the Jews. In which Schindler continues to observe the little girl as she passes a Nazi soldier who fires one bullet through a group of lined up men, killing several. The little girl in the red coat enter into an empty building, to which she goes up the stairs and crawls under a bed for cover, covering her ears from the roaring sounds of death coming from outside, to in which, her red coat, becomes discolored, blending herself in as just one of the rest of everyone else. Schindler still mesmerized by the girl in the red coat, which later on at the end of the scene loses her color, helps support the audience believe that the girl in the red coat is just more than an anomaly within a black and white film, but a symbol for those who were victims of the holocaust, to which all were individuals, who all had a life, and this little girl represented each and single of them, And Schindler saw all of them, all 6,000,000 victims. As in the scene, the little girl loses her color, she has then become lost within all these victims, all becoming represented in the girl in the red

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