A sad fact: Some survivors watched the movie and they've been asked what they thought of it afterwards: They said it wasn't brutal enough. Amon Goeth was more evil, the guards, the stuff they were doing to them... The things that are shown are toned down and still this movie is such a gut punch.
It is sad. Speilberg toned down Goeth because he thought audiences wouldn't believe it was real. That he just made it all up for drama. But it was real. He did teach his dogs to chase and kill them. I don't know what's sadder, the fact he omitted it, or the fact he's right--no one would have thought it was real.
@@lolitabubbles26 I think it’s difficult for people to comprehend true evil like that. Why do you think some major US commanders were skeptical right up until the point where they visited the main camps? Even with their own soldiers reporting atrocities, while they may have believed it to be true deep down, can you mentally accept that it happened? Horrible stuff. This allows for people to be educated without being traumatised.
@@lolitabubbles26 There's a TV interview with Rolf Mengele and he admits that his father had 20 truckloads of Jewish children burned alive. Yet still he didn't give Mengele up to justice.
57:32 1993 is when the movie was made. Almost 50 years later. They didn't catch him, but he lived the rest of his life either nearly destitute or attempting several failed business ventures. His marriage also fell apart. He stayed in contact with many of the Jewish prisoners that he had protected, including Stern. Schindler died in 1974 at only 66 years old and was buried on Mount Zion in Jerusalem in honor of his efforts during the war. He was the only member of the Nazi Party ever given this honor.
No offense but schindler was not buried on Mount Zion, that is a misconception by many people. Quote: One man, however, whose grave is always asked about, does not lie here: The Jew rescuer Oskar Schindler was buried in the neighboring Catholic cemetery. In a statement from the German Embassy in Tel Aviv to the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany dated February 14, 1989, the Anglican-German Zion Cemetery is accorded great importance. Source: Jerusalem. Community Newsletter - Foundation Journal Sept. - Nov. 2008
@@dumontxt9813 You mean the Mount Zion Franciscan Cemetery? he was still buried on the mountain known as Mount Zion, even if it's not the main cemetery.
He was actually a little more deeply involved than the movie lets on. He was a spy and informant for the Nazis, using his front as a travelling 'businessman' as cover. In fact, he was a minor spymaster, with 25 or so working under him to gather information helpful to the Nazis. Still, it's not for me to judge.
@@GK-yi4xv Just why do you think he was shown such leniency? That he was able to stay under the radar? He played a game with the nazis; give, so he could get. Do you think they would have let him have all those Jews had he been a nobody to them? He was a master at playing the game with the nazis and only because of what he did for the jews did he wind up a pauper. Think it through.
The people at the end were the real survivors, accompanied by the actors who played their young selves. They didn't catch him, he survived and lived an unsuccessful life, but his act of saving people are near unparalleled. An unremarkable man who did a remarkable deed. A great Man.
They did arrest him and charge him, but he was released after only a few years thanks to the intercession and testimonies of some of the people he saved.
A strong performance by Neeson. But, imo, the only actor I just can't see being replaced by anyone else without a significant loss is Ben Kingsley as Stern. Masterful. And he didn't even get a nomination!
Grade 10 history was my first time seeing this and god damn ill never forget it. I agree with you cuz to be honest i probably wouldnt have watched it otherwise
57:05 Happily, the Nazis didn't kill Oskar Schindler; he died in 1974 aged 66, and was buried at Mount Zion in Jerusalem, in the grave we see at the end of the movie.
why would the nazis kill schindler after the war anyways? he was mainly afraid of the czechoslovakians trying to kill him for being a traitor earlier, when he was still a spy for the nazis while at the same time being a czechoslovakian citizen.
He asked the two german officers at the trainstation their names and threatened them. "...thank you, I can guarantee you, you both will be in Southern Russia before the end of the month, good day." (Basically saying; I have more powerful Friends and I will make sure you both get send to the Eastern Front for not helping me). Immediately after they start shouting and looking with him, as the Eastern Front was Hell on Earth and basically a deathsentence.
I was born and raised in Poland and when I was 12 as a part of a 2 week camp we took a trip to Stutthof ( one of the death camps now a museum) I remember seeing what for a 12 year old me looked like a mountain of old shoes that our teacher told us belonged to the victims. In the next moment I noticed a little schoe that could only belong to a child not older than 2-3 years old. I remeber bursting in tears. After the trip we where so schoked that our group of 10 girls slept in the 2 bed bedroom huging eachother for the next 3 days ... Now Im 28 but this place is still vivid in my mind... I think everyone schould see this place or any other death camp at least once. Its a place that shifts your whole perception of a world. If more people would see what hate, prejudices and lust for power can destroy we would do anything and everything for that scenario not to repeat itself.
It's very touching. Me, I'm french and when I was 15 years old with my classmates and teacher, I met a survivor of the Holocaust who was deported to Bergen-Belsen
I disagree. I definitely feel an experience like that is NOT in everyone's best interest.... but certainly some meaningful exposure to it, at an educational level, is called for. For some it may be the right thing, while for others it cn b far more traumatic than instructive.
I recently did a search for how many Schindler Jews there are now since this movie was made 30 years ago... the estimate is around 12,000. 12,000 people who exist because of one man. It's remarkable. I've come across a couple reactors here on TH-cam who never learned about the Holocaust in school. They were in their 20s and we're asking if that really happened. That is _terrifying_ to me.
idk about you. but i was taught about the holocaust when i was in 3rd or 4th grade. the fact that this wasnt taught to someone is very scary. i feel like most 23 year olds dont care about history like i do. makes me sad
@Murtadha Alkenani - Let me guess, you’re a Holocaust denier? You don’t think children should be taught about man’s capacity for brutality and apathy for suffering? Perhaps it disturbs you because in confronting the Holocaust, you may just have to confront the role Turkey played in the genocide of the Armenians, or… perhaps acknowledge the Serbian genocide of the Balkan Muslims, or even now - The Chinese genocide of the Uyhgurs. Humanity sucks, and people like you, don’t make us better.
Trust me...there are unfortunately enough people in the world who won't even shed a tear or be emotionally moved by any of this due to their upbringing, lack of soul or political reasons...welcome to humanity 😒
I heard not long after the movie was released that this particular scene didn't actually happen, but it is taken from remarks that Schindler was heard to have made later on. Still a good scene, though, that stands alongside Tom Hanks' "EARN this" line in Saving Private Ryan. Spielberg crystallizes in short, simple scenes what the audience is meant to take away from the experience of seeing these movies.
@@citizenbobx there were definitely some creative liberties taken. For example, the number at his camp was closer to 1700 as he had combined with other manufacturers to get the Jews out. The scene where he is asking the other manufacturer to join him but the other guy is reluctant is closer to truth except Schindler did get the help
@@xenomorphlover dude, I never cry in movies. I've never cried to any movie in my life including this one. That doesn't mean that I don't have feelings. I am conscious of what horror this part of history was
There is a documentary on the making of the movie "Schindler's List" where certain scenes are discussed in details. There are other documentaries out there with very descriptive and extremely disturbing images on video of the mistreatment of the Jews throughout the Holocaust. This movie, as terrible as it seemed, is truly only a glimpse of the true tragedies befallen amongst the Jewish people. Thanks and blessings to Steven Spielberg for creating this masterpiece. I've enjoyed your reaction to this film. 💙
Exactly. I have watched so many documentaries. I think if a movie was made that covered everything, it would be so long and beneficial, you'd have to schedule vacation time throughout the year just to be able to watch it all. So many countries impacted. A true perverse massacre.
Spielberg went on record saying there were many things he could simply never show on film, or it would have haunted him forever. For example, the Nazis would use babies for target practice. Yes, babies. They would take it from a mother's arms, throw it into the air, and shoot at it. He specifically said it was things like this he could never show, even if it was with a toy doll. This film captures some of the horror, but only the survivors will know the true horror of the Holocaust
"They are taking them to another place?" I sometimes forget that the iconic silhouette of the Auschwitz Gate house is not common knowledge. I would have recognized it even without a title card.
Same. But if I remember correctly, there is a big subtitle "Auschwitz" when the train arrives in the camp. So I was a bit confused why they're not know what place this is^^
@@Riddler0603 Yes, there seem to be some subtitles missing in this version. Including the ones at the end that make it clear who the people visiting his grave are.
I visited Auschwitz in September this year. I knew about the Gate, I'd seen it so many times in pictures and documentaries. To me it's always been one of the most recognizable symbols of the holocaust. But nothing prepared me for the heaviness that came over me once I was standing in front of the real thing.
The scariest and most heartbreaking scene for me was when their clearing out the Ghetto, an SS officer plays the piano and two other soldiers briefly discuss whether he was playing Bach or Mozart. It just shows you these weren’t demons or monsters. They were men, educated men, men with families, men who knew what love is, men who knew what peace is, men who believed in God. And that is what makes them so terrifying, for they decided to inflict this horror upon the world. They chose to kill rather than spare. They chose evil and hatred, rather than stand for what is right.
Its been called the Banality of Evil, a phrase coined by Political Theorist Hannah Arendt during the Trial of Adolf Eichmann. It is idea that evil acts are not necessarily perpetrated by evil people. Instead, they can simply be the result of bureaucrats dutifully obeying orders.
It's down to indoctrination of an entire nation, Jews were demonized and dehumanised in Germany long before any killing started, unfortunately it still goes on today all over the world
@@StinkyGreenBud but it's the only industrial one with such a systematic dimension and done by one of the most advanced and civilized country in the world at that time
I have seen actual footage of when American soldiers liberated these concentration camps and some of the most hardended soldiers who were used to seeing death had either shocked looks on their faces or were crying when they saw first hand of what happened to these people. Many American soldiers were so enraged they beat and shot the German guards on site and in some cases allowed the prisoners who was still strong enough to attack and beat the German guards. Very brutal and sad situation. Let's try to make sure nothing like this happens again.
@@douglascampbell9809 you mean like they do with the unvaccinated ppl? Australia already putting ppl in camps, everywhere people without certificate are discriminated, attacked and arrested for not wearing a mask, even though they have an exception.
@@stefanf7847 Are you sure her claims are true? I read that she was a little girl who, with her mother and maybe a sibling, were separated from her father. He was able to watch them be led away by the germans for a long distance because he had recently purchased the red coat for her and the red stood out. His story was authenticated and so to honour him and his family Spielberg put her in the movie. In the movie she is shown dead, because she and the rest of the family were exterminated. I highly doubt that Spielberg would break from the authenticity of this movie to kill her off, if she did indeed survive.
The song you can hear in that seen is called Oifen Pripetchik. It is an old Yiddish song written for children, encouraging them to learn alphabet. Some years before this movie came out, during a concert, I sang this song to a group of 6-7 year old children. My daughter was in that group. There are a lot of seens in this movie that I cry through, but that one, with that song in the background is most devastating.
@@SupremeCommanderBaiser no but others were there and talked about it. Some of the survivors from the movie, watched it and they said, it was good, but not brutal enough…
One of the best parts is at the end when the actors walk to actual survivors out to put the rocks on Oscars grave. The blonde was the actress that played Oscars wife who wheeled out out his actual wife to put the rock on his grave. Classic movie- one of the best.
In the final scene of the cemetery, the people who left a stone were the ones who really saved Schindler accompanied by the actors by whom they were played in the movie ... I recommend that you see another one set at the same time, it's called "La vita e Bella "directed, interpreted and I think also written by Roberto Benigni ... also another very nice one for them to react to is" I am Sam ", interpreted by Sean Penn and Michelle Pfeiffer.
I was seeing your happy and smiling faces at the beginning, and I knew you'd both be mentally exhausted by the end. I'm so glad you watched this film. It's actually just a small sample of the actual horror that took place. Now I'm exhausted watching you two ladies reacting to this film. It's impossible not to shed tears. Vicky and Leah, your thoughts and reactions are shared by millions.
I agree, because this is NOT an easy film to watch by any standards, but they gutted it out and stuck with it to the end. I admire Viki and Leah for their courage and tenacity.
At 27:27 you can see Stern walking over gravestones - the Nazis stole them from the local jewish graveyard to pave the ways.... I´ve watched this movie a hundred times since it came out and it still makes my eyes watering like I´ve chopped a bag of onions. Greetings from Austria
I am sad to say I have walked on those gravestones and felt the marks left by people trying to claw their way out of the gas chamber. History must not be repeated, at any cost.
I lost family at Auschwitz and this movie crushes me every time. I’m so glad you took the time to watch this because our memories will help ensure this never happens again. Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. Respect
I'm so sorry for your lose its beyond humane what happened Let's make sure this never happens again So sorry for you from the bottom of my heart, I hope they are at peace You stay safe and god be with you my friend
We watched this my senior year of high school in Oklahoma, USA. I still get choked up throughout the movie. My grandfather and his brother served in WWII for the Allies liberating camps.
Mine liberated Buchenwald. My grandfather jumped into France and was wounded. He fought at the Battle of the Bulge and was wounded a second time. But those wounds were nothing compared to what he experienced at Buchenwald. Seeing the absolute worst things men can inflict on other men tore his soul out. My grandpa may have had air in his lungs and blood flow through his veins, but that war killed his soul
The real survivors appear with the actors who played them. Sometimes just the actor or actress .Issac Stern was played by Ben Kingsley and shows up with his widow. And Liam Neeson honors Schindler at the end.
My husband and I watched “The pianist” recently along with “boy in the striped pajamas” and “the zookeepers wife” and we were in tears by the end of the night.
I live in Berlin and just a few weeks ago I found out, that I live 5 minutes away from one of Schindlers former Factories. I rode my bike past it for almost a decade without noticing. It failed after the war, and was laid still for years. It was reopened and still runs under his name to this day. But they are not producing the same things they did back then.
This movie breaks my heart. Watching you react to it broke my heart again. This story is so important, not just for remembering the past but to prevent this from ever happening again in the future.
No type of media depicting the Holocaust is as impactful as the actual footage and photos you can see in museums such as Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. But as far as feature films go, you have to give Spielberg tons of respect for choosing to make such a harrowing yet beautiful film that was personally important to him. The only real gripe people have is the fact that it’s in English rather than subtitled, but other than that it’s a masterpiece
here on TH-cam is a 10-part docuseries from CourtTV on the Nuremberg trial. The series features part of the 2.5 hours of footage taken by Army photographers while liberating the camps. I think this movie does the best it realistically can…. I know in Band of Brothers they have cancer patients playing inmates, because they have a degree of that look. But to look like the people in the real footage, the actors would have to starve themselves nearly to the point of death. And I remember hearing that they had to tone down the Ammon Goeth character, bc that soulless entity resembling a man was SO evil, SO sociopathic, SO sadistic that most people would think “this CANNOT be true.., this MUST be an exaggeration
It is really hard to watch this movie the whole 3 hours and to know that this movie based on a true story in one of the worst time in history make it even harder. This movie is a masterpiece, everyone should see this, especially people who think they can put down other people because of their beliefs
@@lorichet WW2 was not a fiction and that Oskar Schindler saved life from over 1000 Jewish people is true. Not every spoken word in that movie is exactly the historical copy, that explains itselfs and is not necessary. But the context is right and makes these to a true story based movie either
@@StefanZacharias1 I see my reply vanished. Let's see if this is deleted. Nobody denies Schindler was a real person. Nobody denies Amon Goth existed. The story is pure fiction. Detailed examples will only get my post deleted again. "Truth fears no investigation" -- says it all.
When I saw Lia and Viki watching "Schindler's List", it was my first thought. It's too hard. I like that they are as emotional as I am but I can't the them cry .... There's no shame in crying at the movie. I cry tons of tears every time All parents should watch this film with their children when they are old enough to understand and answer all their questions. Something like that must never happen again!
Shame? No. One should be proud of themselves at crying at this movie. It shows they are human. It shows they have a soul. Seeing others cry during this movie restores my faith in humanity.
My father used to watch this kind of movies. I remember when I was a child and he cover my eyes during some painful scenes. Now, after this film, I can show my respect for Jewish people. Maybe Spielberg wanted to give us his vision of the Second World War with this movie, the next one (Saving Private Ryan) and his two TV series (Band of Brothers and The Pacific). I hope you can react to them.
I first saw this film in an AG history class in high school. At the end of the film the teacher turned on the lights and ask the class, "what do you think?" I started crying uncontrollably and said, "I kept hearing my name!" My last name is Horowitz. I fucking love this film.
Oscar was known for having lots of children and women when he was questioned why th he told them in order to make bullets bc they have small hands. Also they made many of the weapons not work so whenever a someone was being shot they would have a chance of geting away. God bless all the people affected in the holocausts. NEVER FORGET!
The Schindler Jews who were setting stones on his grave were accompanied by the actors who portrayed them. For a long time, I've always thought it was Steven Spielberg who directed the movie that placed the rose, but it was Liam Neeson who played Oskar Schindler.
An actress who was the “girl in the red coat” in “Schindler’s List” has turned real life heroine by coordinating help for fleeing Ukrainian refugees. Oliwia Dabrowska appeared in Steven Spielberg‘s 1993 classic aged just three - her red coat providing the only flash of color in the black-and-white Oscar winner. Her character, a little Jewish girl, was the catalyst that saved the lives of more than 1,200 Jews destined for Nazi concentration camps in 1943. And now Oliwia, 32, from Krakow, Poland, has taken inspiration from Oskar Schindler and is helping those fleeing war-torn Ukraine.
In Germany this film is shown in almost every class. Mostly in the ninth grade. For us, such a film is part of our history class. No cold numbers or hollow facts, but the feelings. Feelings like yours. To understand the past, see the horror and feel the responsibility that we have. So this inhumanity would never be repeated. Greetings from 🇩🇪
I think it’s a great idea to show that film continually for youngsters ( not only for them, everyone should see it 🤔) it’s a big reminder for the human beings of today….. May such a terrible things never ever happened again 🙏🏻😔
We think we are civilized. When a country like Germany with an educated population with a cultured history can let itself be led by lunacy to become an instrument of unimaginable cruelty and butchery only shows it can happen anywhere. We are not far from the jungle as a race.
To take it literally: as far as we know, we've started cultivating crops and domesticating animals about 10 000 years ago (simplifying). If you assume a new generation coming every 25 years, then it's just about 400 generations. Mere 20 generations since end of the Middle Ages. This number shrinks even more when you realize that quite a few people will live to meet 6 generations of their own lineage.
Yes, this was a rough movie to watch. Feeling all the emotions is hard but I’m glad you were able to get through it. As the old saying goes “never forget”.
This was a story of hope, and an important story to be told. There is a massive amount of horrific stories, books that will turn your hair white off true atrocities committed. "The musicians of Auschwitz ", "Elle" and many more written by survivors. It's more prevalent than ever before today.
if you ever wonder why there's so many holocaust movies, books, television shows and never ending references to it in your everyday life you might understand what's really happening.
A couple of interesting facts of ww2 - all the SS uniforms were designed by Hugo boss, Hitler is credited with designing the VW beetle, because he stole it from a jew and had him killed.
Oskar lived in poverty, and his marriage fell apart after the war. However in a twist of fate, his workers that he saved, financially supported him for the rest of his life. It wasn't much, but it's all they had to thank the man that saved their lives.
Thank for your awesome live stream yesterday. Great fun 👍😊 now I'll watch your reaction vid. And this movie is VERY important, we must never forget the history. And Schindler was a true hero, nearly forgot before this movie Cheers
My grandfather did not talk much about his experiences in World War II. But one of the few times that he did was toward the end of his life when he spoke of how, as part of the American Third Army, he helped to liberate the slave laborers at the Buchenwald concentration camp. My grandfather usually never cried, but he did when he talked about all of the sick, malnourished survivors of the camp who met him and the other liberating American troops with tearful gratitude.
How many of us ,that have actually watched this historical portrayal of Schindlers List ; know that these two young women will never be the same after witnessing these horrifying events. Its sad, but so very needed in order for this to NEVER happen again.
I met a french survivor of the Holocaust with my classmates when I was 15 years old. The french singer Jean-Jacques Goldman speaks about the camps in his song " Comme toi " (Like you in english)
There is another masterpiece move call 'Come And See'. Its about what the Nazis did in Belarus. The people who made the film were actually there but miraculously survived. They depicted the movie as it actually was. It's shocking.
The wives of many of the officers collected skulls of dead Jews. Often having them embronzed and passed around as Christmas and party exchange gifts. This is the level of depravity we are dealing with.
Roosevelt was given a letter-opener made from the skeleton of a Japanese soldier (though he returned it). And Life Magazine at the time published a photo of a young American woman showing off the skull of a Japanese soldier sent by her boyfriend as a 'trophy'. Once we decide that 'the Other' is our worst enemy, there's no limit to how far down we seem to be able to go.
@@GK-yi4xv The Japanese committed incredibly heinous acts in Manchuria. Opening the skulls of captivates while still alive and pouring quicksilver into them. To watch their expressions as they died.
Reminds me of Jeffrey Dahmer and other brutal serial killers. We look at them like deranged maniacs, meanwhile proper little housewives were going full on Predator.
@@GK-yi4xv i mean, for a short time the Japanese WERE our (the US, China, Russia, India/Hindustan and Australia particularly) worst enemy, and the Imperial Japanese military committed some of the most unimaginable atrocities possible including ignoring laws of war even the Nazis and Russia (sometimes) respected and establishing Unit 731- they dehumanized themselves. Reacting to an opponent like that with 'humanity' is, ultimately, a weakness that the IJA and IJN openly exploited to the detriment of their own people- they made it impossible to react to them with compassion. This is NOT to justify objectively wrong actions like internment, but rather a realistic perspective- trying to 'play nice' just got more people killed. Thankfully, the war ended and humanity was able to return to the table.
This movie is not only incredibly hard to watch, but it was even harder to make for Steven Spielberg, being his most personal film. The production days were so hard for him to get through that he'd call Robin Williams to tell jokes just to bring his mood up.
The author of the source novel just happened to be passing through L.A. airport with time to kill, so he just happened to go into a luggage shop, which just happened to be run by one of the Schindler Jews, who just happened to tell him the story. Otherwise, the movie might never have happened.
It's very interesting that eastern Europeans are always more emotinal watching this. I imagine it must be because they feel a connection given some of their countries were taken over and part of this. Obviously everyone is emotional of course.
Twelve years ago, a Holocaust survivor came to our workplace to give a discussion about her experiences in those terrible death camps. She wept throughout the entire talk and spoke movingly about how she would sing nursery songs to her little sister, in the most barbaric conditions imaginable. After eight decades, she was still haunted by the experience. Her sister didn't survive, but she gave many inspirational talks about the evils of fascism and racism. "Schindler's List" should be mandatory viewing in all places of education.
My mom went to visit Auschwitz and she told me that you can feel the sorrow once you walked in. She couldn't go on with the tour after she saw the room filled with children's shoes.
One piece of trivia: when Steven Spielberg was finally getting his BA in film from Cal State University 34 years after dropping out, he submitted this film for his advanced filmmaking class. He passed.
The most masterfully put together movie I've seen. The very fact that we don't even meet the main villain until 45 minutes in is just one testament to the confidence with which Spielberg took his time to tell the story his way (and had the status by then to get things his way). So, by the time bad things start happening, they're so much more impactful because we've kind of been lulled into letting our guard down by the slow buildup, and also because we 'know' the people it's happening to. A lesser movie would have felt the need to bash the audience over the head with shocking scenes of violence, right up front, to much less effect. And the way that he weaves in and out of the opposite extremes without ever losing the shock value of the worst parts is incredibly difficult to do in this age of jaded, over-saturated, over-sophisticated viewers.
In reality was it harder and more terrible. The part about Amon Göth was lighter, because nobody would have believe the things that he actually did. So he caught a woman, she has eaten a potato and she was thrown in boiling water.
I'm from Germany and we are supposed to watch this movie in 9 grade in history class every child now Oskar Schindler. It's a must for everyone school in Germany to show this movie.
Movies like this I like to describe as "beautifully ugly." The film is masterfully crafted with a beautiful story of the protagonists forming incredible bonds. However the films story is drowning in the ugliness of the subject matter. It's a great cinematic example of "a diamond in the ruff."
I remember seeing it when it was released and hundred of people in the theater crying. Yes we must keep history alive because there are so many that deny it happened.
I saw this with a buddy when we were 22. We both stood outside in the Winnipeg winter afterwards and couldn't speak. It was a matinee, so the crowd was mostly retired folks. It was obvious we had been crying a bit. Some kindly elderly people walked past us, stopped, and patted us on the shoulders. That made us cry more. What an experience.
53:30 that part fuckin kills me. The whole "I could have got more, and I didn't " how sacred a single human life really is. Though he saved the lives of so many he still feels immense guilt that he didn't get one more person. Destroys me every time lol
In the Torah was his absolution. "He who saves one life saves the whole world". He did enough. If he had been different, he would have failed. 1100 people was plenty. The Torah absolved him of failing to do more.
The ending scene where he is losing it when faced with how many more people he could’ve saved. Wow it’s just so heart wrenching. He played that so well you just can’t help but feel it though the screen
My father served in the US 3rd army (Cannoneer 687th FAB) from 43-45...Normandy,battle of the Bulge' When the Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated in the spring of 45 one of his last duties was helping "clean up" the place.....He brought back pictures he took there...The brutality of the German people was underplayed in this picture....And I restate German people because this did not happen in a vacuum...Those that said they "didn't know" lied.......
Facts. My grandfather was in the German army. He claimed he had no idea, he was just an ordinary unimportant soldier. My father, about 6 years old, played in the attic one day and found a dusty box full of medals. High decorated my grandfather was... so much for “didn't know anything“ We never had a good relationship with him... for obvious reasons
@@siggilinde5623 And as a US citizen, It is sad to see the effort that is put in trying to divide us into "us and them" in order to do the same thing here.....And when it happens here the death toll will make WW2 look like child's play......Just saying...
The part that made me ugly cry was the girl in the red coat as the song my grandad sang it to me and the end when you match the actors to real people. It’s easy to watch a movie in today and think oh well it’s only acting . They go home each night safe in their beds but when they match them to real survivors it became very very real to me .
Ralph Fiennes plays Amon Goethe in this film. He would of course, go on to play Voldemort in the Harry Potter films. Voldemort's pretty scary as a fictional character. But Amon Goethe was a real person....and one of the worst human rights violators in history, extremely loyal to Hitlers ideals, and one of the worst human beings to ever exist.
@@a.g.demada5263 Correct, Jennifer Teege. Her mother is Göth's illegitimate daughter and her father was from Nigeria. She grew up in a children's home for seven years before being adopted. She later studied in Israel. She unexpectadly learned of her ancestry when she read the biography of Monika Göth and realized she is her mother. To fight the following depression she wrote the book "My Grandfather would have shot me" about her story. She also made contact to her mother who btw after watching Schindler's List contacted some survicors and befriended them.
@Ashid Mikeks Go and visit Auschwitz. Birkenau's Death Gate, shown in this movie still stands, and so does the camp itself. Parts of the land around the camp and inside it are still marked by human ash three quarters of a century later - over a million people were cremated there, and most of their ashes that went up the chimneys of the Kremas fell back close to them. The ruins of the four large Kremas have been left as they were. The two "bunkers", which served as prototype gas chambers and stayed in use throughout Birkenau's tenure as a death camp. And pile after pile of personal belongings that were sorted but never shipped away for lack of capacity, and kept in the "Kanada" warehouses. The Shoah was real. It was the worst example of organized mass murder in history. Its stigmata are still visible, mostly in Poland, where most of the death camps were built by the Nazis. And the worst part is, the five and a half million Jews murdered throughout the war by the Nazis are barely a quarter of the number of the civilians the Nazis killed in six years' worth of various extermination campaigns. Europe's Jews, however, hold the unfortunate distinction of being the population whose extermination the Nazis prioritized the most and organized "the best".
Even as Schindler did this, know the story of Raoul Wallenberg, who saved approximately 10,000 Jews in Hungary. Raoul was a Swedish official who was arrested by the Soviets and was never seen again.
Fact: The extras in the Nazi costumes felt so dirty that they took multiple showers and told their agents that they will NEVER put on another Nazi uniform costume.
This is one of those movies that is really, really difficult to watch. It's a masterpiece. Everything about it is perfection...including how downright awful it can make you feel without even showing just how bad some of the acts of cruelty truly were. It's hauntingly beautiful in a way because the movie was filmed so well, but the nature of what we see is disgusting. It's definitely one of those movies where it's hard to watch it more than once, but everyone should see it at least once because it's the type of film that stays with you.
Vicky , the graves behind belong to christian people, the jewish ones have a star of David. Oscar was catholic, that´s why he was buried there and the only flower was placed by Liam Neeson who played him.
That's Oskar Schindler's grave. The people leaving stones are the real Schindler Jews along with their actor counterpart (you can see the real person that the actor was playing). The person leaving the flower is Liam. Oskar remained a free man after the war.
I read a story from somebody's grandfather who served in a US regiment that liberated a concentration camp. It was a user in the youtube comments who had posted it (keep in mind, the US forces who found said camps had no idea what went on in the camps and most suffered PTSD after witnessing the brutality that happened there) : After witnessing what the germans had been doing to the prisoners in the camps, the american soldiers were so angry they started enacting their own vengeance by shooting any german soldier / officer they found against orders. When a corporal asked said grandfather why the soldiers were also shooting prisoners he told them "They're not prisoners, they're german officers in prison clothing. You can tell by their healthy faces and bodies." The US higher-ups didn't court-martial anyone for this act of vengeance. There's another movie about the the Nuremberg trial (the sentencing of officials responsible for the genocide) , starring Alan Rickmam, where for about 1-2 minutes they show actual footage of the concentration camps - dead bodies in massive piles, mass graves and germans bulldozing bodies into them. This nightmarish period of history is being lost to time now that the last vets are passing away and the new generations can't even fathom such brutality.
Those who forget do so willfully. Younger storytellers are being taught to continue to tell these stories. world War II wasn't on TH-cam, but there were miles of film and pictures that documented almost all of the atrocities. The Reich was meticulous and diligent about documentation, so even their burn orders couldn't erase what they'd done.
In the 1990's, Steven Spielberg produced and directed three movies that each juxtapose the horrific villainy of some humans against the soaring heroism of others. Though their subjects and stories are unrelated, I believe they should view as a set; "Schindler's List", "Saving Private Ryan", and "Amistad". It was only the successes of the first two that allowed him to believe that the third movie was possible.
The girl in the red coat is one of the saddest and most gut wrenching moments in the history of film, and most people miss the significance of it. The one bit of colour in the whole film is that red coat, as Oskar sees her walking down the street alone, seeming to be looking for her parents, the sad thing about this is missed by most people who watch the film, because later when Oskar is talking to the German officer in front of the burning fields and you see carts full of bodies being pushed towards the fires, one of the carts has got that little girl with the red coat lying dead on top.
(A story from the Bible) watch the movie " One Night with the King ". Born of slaves, a young Jewish woman named Hadassah becomes part of the harem of powerful King Xerxes (the god king from 300). Simultaneously, a close adviser to the king hatches a plan to exterminate the Jews. Hadassah, now called Queen Esther (Her story found in the Bible), must find the courage to step forward and save her people from annihilation. Great movie about the one of the first times the Jewish people survived.
My grandfather was a doctor in a Displaced Person Camp - where they went after being liberated and nursed back to health. So until his death we had people come to visit with their own children & grandchildren who had been in the camps. I grew up hearing the stories. As well as the hell and & PTSD of rebuilding lives after. Thanks for watching.
You asked "Why don't they have guns, to shoot back?" Because a few years earlier laws were made that restricted what Jews were allowed to own and allowed to do, and even barred them from living in certain areas/locations. One of the first laws said that Jews could not own guns, so virtually *all* Jews handed over any guns they had to the Authorities. After that, they could not effectively fight back. Your reactions are a testament to your good hearts. Yes, this was hard to watch, but it should not be watched just once; it is important that the horrors never be forgotten, so you should watch it every so often. For me, I make sure to watch it *at least* once each year. Oskar Schindler was a saint; he had his faults, he had failings, he wasn't perfect (nobody is - not you or me or anybody); but in the end he knew the Righteous Path, and chose it. He was willing to give up anything - his wealth, his comforts, even his life I believe. We all need to follow his example, and walk in the same Path. Lia & Vicki - in every country of the West there is at least one Holocaust Memorial Museum (I think they have a special name, but I can't remember it), I think there are 2 or 3 in the U.S. You should visit any of them if you get the chance; there is more to learn in them. And there you will find a book you can sign your name in, basically promising to *Never Forget!* Part of Never Forgetting is to *Never Look Away!* There are places in the world - even today! - where these kind of horrors happen! Example: in China the Chinese Communist Party has what they call 'Re-education Camps', but they are Concentration Camps, for Uyghurs. In them the Uyghurs are tortured, and sterilized, and raped, and forced to work, and often killed; several of the Camps have over 10,000 people in them! *Never Forget! Never Look Away!*
A sad fact: Some survivors watched the movie and they've been asked what they thought of it afterwards: They said it wasn't brutal enough. Amon Goeth was more evil, the guards, the stuff they were doing to them... The things that are shown are toned down and still this movie is such a gut punch.
It is sad. Speilberg toned down Goeth because he thought audiences wouldn't believe it was real. That he just made it all up for drama. But it was real. He did teach his dogs to chase and kill them. I don't know what's sadder, the fact he omitted it, or the fact he's right--no one would have thought it was real.
@@lolitabubbles26 I think it’s difficult for people to comprehend true evil like that. Why do you think some major US commanders were skeptical right up until the point where they visited the main camps? Even with their own soldiers reporting atrocities, while they may have believed it to be true deep down, can you mentally accept that it happened? Horrible stuff. This allows for people to be educated without being traumatised.
@@lolitabubbles26 There's a TV interview with Rolf Mengele and he admits that his father had 20 truckloads of Jewish children burned alive. Yet still he didn't give Mengele up to justice.
Yes I done some research about this evil bastard and he was beyond cruel
@@lewisner well it was his father after all.
57:32 1993 is when the movie was made. Almost 50 years later. They didn't catch him, but he lived the rest of his life either nearly destitute or attempting several failed business ventures. His marriage also fell apart. He stayed in contact with many of the Jewish prisoners that he had protected, including Stern. Schindler died in 1974 at only 66 years old and was buried on Mount Zion in Jerusalem in honor of his efforts during the war. He was the only member of the Nazi Party ever given this honor.
It came out in 93.
@@cshubs I stand corrected. Not sure how I messed that up. Thanks.
Wow. Thank you for that info. Going to Zion is a bucket list for me. I'll definitely visit his grave when I get there.
No offense but schindler was not buried on Mount Zion, that is a misconception by many people.
Quote: One man, however, whose grave is always asked about, does not lie here: The Jew rescuer Oskar Schindler was buried in the neighboring Catholic cemetery.
In a statement from the German Embassy in Tel Aviv to the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany dated February 14, 1989, the Anglican-German Zion Cemetery is accorded great importance.
Source: Jerusalem. Community Newsletter - Foundation Journal Sept. - Nov. 2008
@@dumontxt9813 You mean the Mount Zion Franciscan Cemetery? he was still buried on the mountain known as Mount Zion, even if it's not the main cemetery.
Oskar was not playing bad at the beginning. He was a greedy, womanizing, opportunist. Over the course of the war he became a changed man.
He was actually a little more deeply involved than the movie lets on.
He was a spy and informant for the Nazis, using his front as a travelling 'businessman' as cover.
In fact, he was a minor spymaster, with 25 or so working under him to gather information helpful to the Nazis.
Still, it's not for me to judge.
Thank heavens he did!
@@GK-yi4xv Just why do you think he was shown such leniency? That he was able to stay under the radar? He played a game with the nazis; give, so he could get. Do you think they would have let him have all those Jews had he been a nobody to them? He was a master at playing the game with the nazis and only because of what he did for the jews did he wind up a pauper. Think it through.
Schincler was a bad guy in real life. This movie portrays him like a hero who made no mistakes.
@@juliaj7939 That's no true. He made several mistakes in the movie including using women. He later regretted it.
The people at the end were the real survivors, accompanied by the actors who played their young selves.
They didn't catch him, he survived and lived an unsuccessful life, but his act of saving people are near unparalleled.
An unremarkable man who did a remarkable deed.
A great Man.
Puro, sounds about right. this is right, too. th-cam.com/video/vyAh9OENJPU/w-d-xo.html
They did arrest him and charge him, but he was released after only a few years thanks to the intercession and testimonies of some of the people he saved.
And the man who puts the flower on the grave and stands before the grave is Liam Neeson
@@robertpunu7624 I was NOT expecting a link about flat earth lmfao
take a hike with this shit
@@Spikeelsucko is it still shit if it's true?
The biggest crime of this masterpiece is that Liam Neeson didn't win an Oscar for his performance .. 😞
Should have been Co-Oscars in 1994 Tom Hanks' portrayal in Philadelphia was just as gripping. Liam Neeson would have won easily in any other year
A strong performance by Neeson.
But, imo, the only actor I just can't see being replaced by anyone else without a significant loss is Ben Kingsley as Stern.
Masterful. And he didn't even get a nomination!
You guys should watch *The Last King of Scotland* with Forrest Whittaker as Edi Amine
Ralp Fiennes not getting the oscar was a crime against humanity
and Ralph Fiennes
This film should be screened in all schools, everywhere.
Grade 10 history was my first time seeing this and god damn ill never forget it. I agree with you cuz to be honest i probably wouldnt have watched it otherwise
Only HS or college: schools asked Spielberg for edited versions; he refused
No it shouldnt.Stop milking it.
@@kenbean75 You're right. Ignorance is obviously the prudent path.
The same as the killing fields with the comunist revolution.
It always starts with smiles and "so excited" with the homies...
then the movie happens
Yes,it's called a 'reality check".
@@richardscanlan3167 No it isn't
@@maulzor yes.... it is.
@@maulzor TROLL
@@richardscanlan3167 No.... It isn't
57:05 Happily, the Nazis didn't kill Oskar Schindler; he died in 1974 aged 66, and was buried at Mount Zion in Jerusalem, in the grave we see at the end of the movie.
why would the nazis kill schindler after the war anyways? he was mainly afraid of the czechoslovakians trying to kill him for being a traitor earlier, when he was still a spy for the nazis while at the same time being a czechoslovakian citizen.
He asked the two german officers at the trainstation their names and threatened them.
"...thank you, I can guarantee you, you both will be in Southern Russia before the end of the month, good day."
(Basically saying; I have more powerful Friends and I will make sure you both get send to the Eastern Front for not helping me).
Immediately after they start shouting and looking with him, as the Eastern Front was Hell on Earth and basically a deathsentence.
I was born and raised in Poland and when I was 12 as a part of a 2 week camp we took a trip to Stutthof ( one of the death camps now a museum) I remember seeing what for a 12 year old me looked like a mountain of old shoes that our teacher told us belonged to the victims. In the next moment I noticed a little schoe that could only belong to a child not older than 2-3 years old. I remeber bursting in tears. After the trip we where so schoked that our group of 10 girls slept in the 2 bed bedroom huging eachother for the next 3 days ... Now Im 28 but this place is still vivid in my mind... I think everyone schould see this place or any other death camp at least once. Its a place that shifts your whole perception of a world. If more people would see what hate, prejudices and lust for power can destroy we would do anything and everything for that scenario not to repeat itself.
It's very touching. Me, I'm french and when I was 15 years old with my classmates and teacher, I met a survivor of the Holocaust who was deported to Bergen-Belsen
I disagree. I definitely feel an experience like that is NOT in everyone's best interest.... but certainly some meaningful exposure to it, at an educational level, is called for.
For some it may be the right thing, while for others it cn b far more traumatic than instructive.
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I recently did a search for how many Schindler Jews there are now since this movie was made 30 years ago... the estimate is around 12,000. 12,000 people who exist because of one man. It's remarkable.
I've come across a couple reactors here on TH-cam who never learned about the Holocaust in school. They were in their 20s and we're asking if that really happened. That is _terrifying_ to me.
This is why teaching history is important; otherwise we repeat the same thing over and over agin.
You learn this at school ? Disgusting.
@@murtadhaalkenani3876 It's called history, you doorknob. Really important history, too.
idk about you. but i was taught about the holocaust when i was in 3rd or 4th grade. the fact that this wasnt taught to someone is very scary. i feel like most 23 year olds dont care about history like i do. makes me sad
@Murtadha Alkenani - Let me guess, you’re a Holocaust denier? You don’t think children should be taught about man’s capacity for brutality and apathy for suffering?
Perhaps it disturbs you because in confronting the Holocaust, you may just have to confront the role Turkey played in the genocide of the Armenians, or… perhaps acknowledge the Serbian genocide of the Balkan Muslims, or even now - The Chinese genocide of the Uyhgurs. Humanity sucks, and people like you, don’t make us better.
You’d have to be a cold-hearted bastard to not be moved by Liam’s final scene at the car
Trust me...there are unfortunately enough people in the world who won't even shed a tear or be emotionally moved by any of this due to their upbringing, lack of soul or political reasons...welcome to humanity 😒
"I could have saved one more person and I didn't'' is one of the most moving, emotional lines in the history of film making in my book.
I heard not long after the movie was released that this particular scene didn't actually happen, but it is taken from remarks that Schindler was heard to have made later on.
Still a good scene, though, that stands alongside Tom Hanks' "EARN this" line in Saving Private Ryan. Spielberg crystallizes in short, simple scenes what the audience is meant to take away from the experience of seeing these movies.
@@citizenbobx there were definitely some creative liberties taken. For example, the number at his camp was closer to 1700 as he had combined with other manufacturers to get the Jews out. The scene where he is asking the other manufacturer to join him but the other guy is reluctant is closer to truth except Schindler did get the help
@@xenomorphlover dude, I never cry in movies. I've never cried to any movie in my life including this one. That doesn't mean that I don't have feelings. I am conscious of what horror this part of history was
There is a documentary on the making of the movie "Schindler's List" where certain scenes are discussed in details. There are other documentaries out there with very descriptive and extremely disturbing images on video of the mistreatment of the Jews throughout the Holocaust. This movie, as terrible as it seemed, is truly only a glimpse of the true tragedies befallen amongst the Jewish people. Thanks and blessings to Steven Spielberg for creating this masterpiece. I've enjoyed your reaction to this film. 💙
Theres an amazing documentary series called Shoah.
@@quiett6191 I just watched "Night and Fog" which has very disturbing footage in it but is an excellent documentary. I need to watch Shoah next.
Exactly. I have watched so many documentaries. I think if a movie was made that covered everything, it would be so long and beneficial, you'd have to schedule vacation time throughout the year just to be able to watch it all. So many countries impacted. A true perverse massacre.
Spielberg went on record saying there were many things he could simply never show on film, or it would have haunted him forever. For example, the Nazis would use babies for target practice. Yes, babies. They would take it from a mother's arms, throw it into the air, and shoot at it. He specifically said it was things like this he could never show, even if it was with a toy doll. This film captures some of the horror, but only the survivors will know the true horror of the Holocaust
"They are taking them to another place?"
I sometimes forget that the iconic silhouette of the Auschwitz Gate house is not common knowledge. I would have recognized it even without a title card.
Same but not everyone have seen the gates of Auschwitz. They know the name and what happened there I am sure but not the look of the camp itself.
Same. But if I remember correctly, there is a big subtitle "Auschwitz" when the train arrives in the camp. So I was a bit confused why they're not know what place this is^^
@@Riddler0603 Yes, there seem to be some subtitles missing in this version.
Including the ones at the end that make it clear who the people visiting his grave are.
I'm amazed and saddened it's not common knowledge.
I visited Auschwitz in September this year. I knew about the Gate, I'd seen it so many times in pictures and documentaries. To me it's always been one of the most recognizable symbols of the holocaust. But nothing prepared me for the heaviness that came over me once I was standing in front of the real thing.
The scariest and most heartbreaking scene for me was when their clearing out the Ghetto, an SS officer plays the piano and two other soldiers briefly discuss whether he was playing Bach or Mozart.
It just shows you these weren’t demons or monsters. They were men, educated men, men with families, men who knew what love is, men who knew what peace is, men who believed in God. And that is what makes them so terrifying, for they decided to inflict this horror upon the world. They chose to kill rather than spare. They chose evil and hatred, rather than stand for what is right.
Its been called the Banality of Evil, a phrase coined by Political Theorist Hannah Arendt during the Trial of Adolf Eichmann.
It is idea that evil acts are not necessarily perpetrated by evil people. Instead, they can simply be the result of bureaucrats dutifully obeying orders.
It's down to indoctrination of an entire nation, Jews were demonized and dehumanised in Germany long before any killing started, unfortunately it still goes on today all over the world
Are you surprised though? This is hardly the first, or even worst, genocide that our species has committed in it's time on this planet.
@@StinkyGreenBud but it's the only industrial one with such a systematic dimension and done by one of the most advanced and civilized country in the world at that time
@@StinkyGreenBud Not surprising, just heartbreaking. No one is born to go about committing genocide.
I have seen actual footage of when American soldiers liberated these concentration camps and some of the most hardended soldiers who were used to seeing death had either shocked looks on their faces or were crying when they saw first hand of what happened to these people. Many American soldiers were so enraged they beat and shot the German guards on site and in some cases allowed the prisoners who was still strong enough to attack and beat the German guards. Very brutal and sad situation. Let's try to make sure nothing like this happens again.
Yup. The minute a politician or even a normal person starts using phrases to dehumanize a class of people it's a warning sign.
@O. B. Hell, we had the start of them in America on the southern border. We probably have them still, they just haven't been in the news lately.
It’s already happening again, pay attention….
@@douglascampbell9809 you mean like they do with the unvaccinated ppl?
Australia already putting ppl in camps, everywhere people without certificate are discriminated, attacked and arrested for not wearing a mask, even though they have an exception.
@O. B. He isn't wrong. Do you really think its about peoples health and safety? If you think so than you're a fool and you should stay asleep
The little girl with the Red Dress gets me every single time .
The Girl in Red based on a real Girl named Roma Ligocka born 13. November 1938 in Krakau. Nickname little strawberry. And she survived.
You're not alone. This 54 yo veteran cries every time.
@@stefanf7847 Are you sure her claims are true? I read that she was a little girl who, with her mother and maybe a sibling, were separated from her father. He was able to watch them be led away by the germans for a long distance because he had recently purchased the red coat for her and the red stood out. His story was authenticated and so to honour him and his family Spielberg put her in the movie. In the movie she is shown dead, because she and the rest of the family were exterminated. I highly doubt that Spielberg would break from the authenticity of this movie to kill her off, if she did indeed survive.
@@hilaryc3203 that's cleared that up for me..I also wondered what the girl in the red coat meant..
The song you can hear in that seen is called Oifen Pripetchik. It is an old Yiddish song written for children, encouraging them to learn alphabet. Some years before this movie came out, during a concert, I sang this song to a group of 6-7 year old children. My daughter was in that group. There are a lot of seens in this movie that I cry through, but that one, with that song in the background is most devastating.
The reality of what happened was far worse than the film was able to depict.
Have you.been there?
@@SupremeCommanderBaiser He didn't have to be to state the truth of it.
@@SupremeCommanderBaiser no but others were there and talked about it. Some of the survivors from the movie, watched it and they said, it was good, but not brutal enough…
i highly recommend the movie come and see
57:00 “Are these people real?” Yes, these are the actual real life Schindler's survivors.
My favorite part in movies inspired by a real story, is the moment when we learn what happened to the real characters
Schindler’s List is not an easy movie to watch, but it is a movie that has to be watched.
True.
I would say the same thing about The book The Blood Meridian, people should know how worthless life is when people are ideologically possessed.
One of the best parts is at the end when the actors walk to actual survivors out to put the rocks on Oscars grave. The blonde was the actress that played Oscars wife who wheeled out out his actual wife to put the rock on his grave. Classic movie- one of the best.
In the final scene of the cemetery, the people who left a stone were the ones who really saved Schindler accompanied by the actors by whom they were played in the movie ... I recommend that you see another one set at the same time, it's called "La vita e Bella "directed, interpreted and I think also written by Roberto Benigni ... also another very nice one for them to react to is" I am Sam ", interpreted by Sean Penn and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Also the pianist is a masterpiece
I was seeing your happy and smiling faces at the beginning, and I knew you'd both be mentally exhausted by the end. I'm so glad you watched this film. It's actually just a small sample of the actual horror that took place. Now I'm exhausted watching you two ladies reacting to this film. It's impossible not to shed tears. Vicky and Leah, your thoughts and reactions are shared by millions.
I agree, because this is NOT an easy film to watch by any standards, but they gutted it out and stuck with it to the end. I admire Viki and Leah for their courage and tenacity.
At 27:27 you can see Stern walking over gravestones - the Nazis stole them from the local jewish graveyard to pave the ways....
I´ve watched this movie a hundred times since it came out and it still makes my eyes watering like I´ve chopped a bag of onions.
Greetings from Austria
I am sad to say I have walked on those gravestones and felt the marks left by people trying to claw their way out of the gas chamber.
History must not be repeated, at any cost.
I lost family at Auschwitz and this movie crushes me every time. I’m so glad you took the time to watch this because our memories will help ensure this never happens again. Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. Respect
I'm so sorry for your lose its beyond humane what happened
Let's make sure this never happens again
So sorry for you from the bottom of my heart,
I hope they are at peace
You stay safe and god be with you my friend
We watched this my senior year of high school in Oklahoma, USA. I still get choked up throughout the movie. My grandfather and his brother served in WWII for the Allies liberating camps.
@L M ok America is fascist?
@L M yep, the new fascism is the left. They are doing similar things that the Nazis did
@@joem5332 no, it isn’t. Don’t let leftist brainwashing and propaganda fool you
Mine liberated Buchenwald. My grandfather jumped into France and was wounded. He fought at the Battle of the Bulge and was wounded a second time. But those wounds were nothing compared to what he experienced at Buchenwald. Seeing the absolute worst things men can inflict on other men tore his soul out. My grandpa may have had air in his lungs and blood flow through his veins, but that war killed his soul
The real survivors appear with the actors who played them. Sometimes just the actor or actress .Issac Stern was played by Ben Kingsley and shows up with his widow. And Liam Neeson honors Schindler at the end.
Oh, it's him with the two roses at the end ? I didn't recognize him.
@@a.g.demada5263 Oskar was the only catholic, that´s why he was the only one who placed a flower. I mean the fictional character to the real person.
@@Taboada30 yes, I understood what you mean.
I haven't a religion but if you say that, I believe you
you should watch "the Pianist" (2002) too, it's also very powerful
Edit: glad you did it :)
and maybe "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" (2008)
Masterpiece.
Are you in it? jk
My husband and I watched “The pianist” recently along with “boy in the striped pajamas” and “the zookeepers wife” and we were in tears by the end of the night.
Life is Beautiful too
I live in Berlin and just a few weeks ago I found out, that I live 5 minutes away from one of Schindlers former Factories. I rode my bike past it for almost a decade without noticing. It failed after the war, and was laid still for years. It was reopened and still runs under his name to this day. But they are not producing the same things they did back then.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Isnt it a museum now?
@@paulanthonyhoeflich8988 the one in Krakow,which can be also seen in the movie is indeed a museum
This movie breaks my heart. Watching you react to it broke my heart again.
This story is so important, not just for remembering the past but to prevent this from ever happening again in the future.
No type of media depicting the Holocaust is as impactful as the actual footage and photos you can see in museums such as Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. But as far as feature films go, you have to give Spielberg tons of respect for choosing to make such a harrowing yet beautiful film that was personally important to him. The only real gripe people have is the fact that it’s in English rather than subtitled, but other than that it’s a masterpiece
here on TH-cam is a 10-part docuseries from CourtTV on the Nuremberg trial. The series features part of the 2.5 hours of footage taken by Army photographers while liberating the camps.
I think this movie does the best it realistically can…. I know in Band of Brothers they have cancer patients playing inmates, because they have a degree of that look. But to look like the people in the real footage, the actors would have to starve themselves nearly to the point of death.
And I remember hearing that they had to tone down the Ammon Goeth character, bc that soulless entity resembling a man was SO evil, SO sociopathic, SO sadistic that most people would think “this CANNOT be true.., this MUST be an exaggeration
It is really hard to watch this movie the whole 3 hours and to know that this movie based on a true story in one of the worst time in history make it even harder. This movie is a masterpiece, everyone should see this, especially people who think they can put down other people because of their beliefs
Xi should be stuffed with this movie
It was based on "Schindler's Ark" -- the fictional novel that won the Booker Award for "Best Fiction."
Spielberg neglected to mention that.
@@lorichet WW2 was not a fiction and that Oskar Schindler saved life from over 1000 Jewish people is true. Not every spoken word in that movie is exactly the historical copy, that explains itselfs and is not necessary. But the context is right and makes these to a true story based movie either
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I see my reply vanished. Let's see if this is deleted.
Nobody denies Schindler was a real person. Nobody denies Amon Goth existed. The story is pure fiction.
Detailed examples will only get my post deleted again. "Truth fears no investigation" -- says it all.
@@lorichet Well, i readed your opinion, but what is your point?
When I saw Lia and Viki watching "Schindler's List", it was my first thought. It's too hard.
I like that they are as emotional as I am but I can't the them cry ....
There's no shame in crying at the movie. I cry tons of tears every time
All parents should watch this film with their children when they are old enough to understand and answer all their questions.
Something like that must never happen again!
Shame? No. One should be proud of themselves at crying at this movie. It shows they are human. It shows they have a soul. Seeing others cry during this movie restores my faith in humanity.
My father used to watch this kind of movies. I remember when I was a child and he cover my eyes during some painful scenes. Now, after this film, I can show my respect for Jewish people. Maybe Spielberg wanted to give us his vision of the Second World War with this movie, the next one (Saving Private Ryan) and his two TV series (Band of Brothers and The Pacific). I hope you can react to them.
@@centuryrox that's what I said
@@Tristan_Anderwelt Yeah you're right. I read your first paragraph then just skimmed over the rest! Bad habit of mine!
@@centuryroxNo problem
I first saw this film in an AG history class in high school. At the end of the film the teacher turned on the lights and ask the class, "what do you think?" I started crying uncontrollably and said, "I kept hearing my name!" My last name is Horowitz. I fucking love this film.
Oscar was known for having lots of children and women when he was questioned why th he told them in order to make bullets bc they have small hands. Also they made many of the weapons not work so whenever a someone was being shot they would have a chance of geting away. God bless all the people affected in the holocausts. NEVER FORGET!
Well done Lia and Viki. Your humanity shines throughout this reaction. ❤
The Schindler Jews who were setting stones on his grave were accompanied by the actors who portrayed them. For a long time, I've always thought it was Steven Spielberg who directed the movie that placed the rose, but it was Liam Neeson who played Oskar Schindler.
An actress who was the “girl in the red coat” in “Schindler’s List” has turned real life heroine by coordinating help for fleeing Ukrainian refugees.
Oliwia Dabrowska appeared in Steven Spielberg‘s 1993 classic aged just three - her red coat providing the only flash of color in the black-and-white Oscar winner.
Her character, a little Jewish girl, was the catalyst that saved the lives of more than 1,200 Jews destined for Nazi concentration camps in 1943.
And now Oliwia, 32, from Krakow, Poland, has taken inspiration from Oskar Schindler and is helping those fleeing war-torn Ukraine.
Somewhere at the end the candles flame had color though
In Germany this film is shown in almost every class. Mostly in the ninth grade. For us, such a film is part of our history class. No cold numbers or hollow facts, but the feelings. Feelings like yours.
To understand the past, see the horror and feel the responsibility that we have. So this inhumanity would never be repeated.
Greetings from 🇩🇪
Ironically it already started again, you just don’t Seen to notice it. You Are probably even part of it.
I think it’s a great idea to show that film continually for youngsters ( not only for them, everyone should see it 🤔) it’s a big reminder for the human beings of today….. May such a terrible things never ever happened again 🙏🏻😔
@@MegaSnehvide It happened again in Rwanda.
Imagine saving over 1000 lives and being wrought with unending guilt for the rest of your life wishing you saved more.
Your emotional reaction has brought me to tears. 54 years old and crying like a little kid.
We think we are civilized. When a country like Germany with an educated population with a cultured history can let itself be led by lunacy to become an instrument of unimaginable cruelty and butchery only shows it can happen anywhere. We are not far from the jungle as a race.
To take it literally: as far as we know, we've started cultivating crops and domesticating animals about 10 000 years ago (simplifying). If you assume a new generation coming every 25 years, then it's just about 400 generations. Mere 20 generations since end of the Middle Ages. This number shrinks even more when you realize that quite a few people will live to meet 6 generations of their own lineage.
Yes, this was a rough movie to watch. Feeling all the emotions is hard but I’m glad you were able to get through it. As the old saying goes “never forget”.
There are some things that should never be forgotten or ever be forgiven. Slavery is one and the Holocaust is another. Pure evil.
C'mon dude you can't say bad things about slavery any more, you certainly cannot teach children that it is bad in more and more U.S. states...
This was a story of hope, and an important story to be told. There is a massive amount of horrific stories, books that will turn your hair white off true atrocities committed. "The musicians of Auschwitz ", "Elle" and many more written by survivors. It's more prevalent than ever before today.
if you ever wonder why there's so many holocaust movies, books, television shows and never ending references to it in your everyday life you might understand what's really happening.
A couple of interesting facts of ww2 - all the SS uniforms were designed by Hugo boss, Hitler is credited with designing the VW beetle, because he stole it from a jew and had him killed.
24:09 Hitler banned guns before he sent them to the death camps
Like all fascist governments do when they want you weak and defenceless.
@@BroadHobbyProjects "To conquer a nation first disarm it's citizens." - Hitler
Oskar lived in poverty, and his marriage fell apart after the war. However in a twist of fate, his workers that he saved, financially supported him for the rest of his life. It wasn't much, but it's all they had to thank the man that saved their lives.
Thank for your awesome live stream yesterday. Great fun 👍😊 now I'll watch your reaction vid.
And this movie is VERY important, we must never forget the history. And Schindler was a true hero, nearly forgot before this movie
Cheers
My grandfather did not talk much about his experiences in World War II. But one of the few times that he did was toward the end of his life when he spoke of how, as part of the American Third Army, he helped to liberate the slave laborers at the Buchenwald concentration camp. My grandfather usually never cried, but he did when he talked about all of the sick, malnourished survivors of the camp who met him and the other liberating American troops with tearful gratitude.
How many of us ,that have actually watched this historical portrayal of Schindlers List ; know that these two young women will never be the same after witnessing these horrifying events. Its sad, but so very needed in order for this to NEVER happen again.
I met a french survivor of the Holocaust with my classmates when I was 15 years old.
The french singer Jean-Jacques Goldman speaks about the camps in his song " Comme toi " (Like you in english)
There is another masterpiece move call 'Come And See'. Its about what the Nazis did in Belarus. The people who made the film were actually there but miraculously survived. They depicted the movie as it actually was. It's shocking.
The wives of many of the officers collected skulls of dead Jews. Often having them embronzed and passed around as Christmas and party exchange gifts. This is the level of depravity we are dealing with.
Roosevelt was given a letter-opener made from the skeleton of a Japanese soldier (though he returned it). And Life Magazine at the time published a photo of a young American woman showing off the skull of a Japanese soldier sent by her boyfriend as a 'trophy'.
Once we decide that 'the Other' is our worst enemy, there's no limit to how far down we seem to be able to go.
@@GK-yi4xv So true. Hate begets hate.
@@GK-yi4xv The Japanese committed incredibly heinous acts in Manchuria. Opening the skulls of captivates while still alive and pouring quicksilver into them. To watch their expressions as they died.
Reminds me of Jeffrey Dahmer and other brutal serial killers. We look at them like deranged maniacs, meanwhile proper little housewives were going full on Predator.
@@GK-yi4xv i mean, for a short time the Japanese WERE our (the US, China, Russia, India/Hindustan and Australia particularly) worst enemy, and the Imperial Japanese military committed some of the most unimaginable atrocities possible including ignoring laws of war even the Nazis and Russia (sometimes) respected and establishing Unit 731- they dehumanized themselves. Reacting to an opponent like that with 'humanity' is, ultimately, a weakness that the IJA and IJN openly exploited to the detriment of their own people- they made it impossible to react to them with compassion. This is NOT to justify objectively wrong actions like internment, but rather a realistic perspective- trying to 'play nice' just got more people killed. Thankfully, the war ended and humanity was able to return to the table.
This movie is not only incredibly hard to watch, but it was even harder to make for Steven Spielberg, being his most personal film. The production days were so hard for him to get through that he'd call Robin Williams to tell jokes just to bring his mood up.
The author of the source novel just happened to be passing through L.A. airport with time to kill, so he just happened to go into a luggage shop, which just happened to be run by one of the Schindler Jews, who just happened to tell him the story.
Otherwise, the movie might never have happened.
Big hug for you guys. Thanks for your tears.
It's very interesting that eastern Europeans are always more emotinal watching this. I imagine it must be because they feel a connection given some of their countries were taken over and part of this. Obviously everyone is emotional of course.
In the US we see this as happening "over there". Europeans see it as happening "here".
Twelve years ago, a Holocaust survivor came to our workplace to give a discussion about her experiences in those terrible death camps.
She wept throughout the entire talk and spoke movingly about how she would sing nursery songs to her little sister, in the most barbaric conditions imaginable.
After eight decades, she was still haunted by the experience. Her sister didn't survive, but she gave many inspirational talks about the evils of fascism and racism.
"Schindler's List" should be mandatory viewing in all places of education.
It's not cuz it goes against the socialist ideas being taught in school
@@josemadera3138 you realize the Nazis hated socialists right? Sent loads of leftists and communists to the camps?
I met a survivor of the Holocaust with my classmates when I was 15 years old
@@fraelikkriil830 lol, funny. Nazis, NSDAP was far left. thay were socialists.
@@HussiteWarrior that’s only plausible to people whose knowledge begins and ends with their name.
My mom went to visit Auschwitz and she told me that you can feel the sorrow once you walked in. She couldn't go on with the tour after she saw the room filled with children's shoes.
Incredible Movie! Great and heartfelt reaction you two! The line "The List Is Life." - chills everytime, . . .
One piece of trivia: when Steven Spielberg was finally getting his BA in film from Cal State University 34 years after dropping out, he submitted this film for his advanced filmmaking class. He passed.
Spielberg pulls no punches in this...gloves are off. The balance of humanity and brutality is remarkable.
The most masterfully put together movie I've seen.
The very fact that we don't even meet the main villain until 45 minutes in is just one testament to the confidence with which Spielberg took his time to tell the story his way (and had the status by then to get things his way).
So, by the time bad things start happening, they're so much more impactful because we've kind of been lulled into letting our guard down by the slow buildup, and also because we 'know' the people it's happening to.
A lesser movie would have felt the need to bash the audience over the head with shocking scenes of violence, right up front, to much less effect.
And the way that he weaves in and out of the opposite extremes without ever losing the shock value of the worst parts is incredibly difficult to do in this age of jaded, over-saturated, over-sophisticated viewers.
In reality was it harder and more terrible. The part about Amon Göth was lighter, because nobody would have believe the things that he actually did. So he caught a woman, she has eaten a potato and she was thrown in boiling water.
The scene with the kids waving goodbye to their parents always destroys me
“Don’t tell me that they are gonna Kill them”. Did you study history, right?
I'm from Germany and we are supposed to watch this movie in 9 grade in history class every child now Oskar Schindler. It's a must for everyone school in Germany to show this movie.
it's common, but not mandatory.
Movies like this I like to describe as "beautifully ugly." The film is masterfully crafted with a beautiful story of the protagonists forming incredible bonds. However the films story is drowning in the ugliness of the subject matter. It's a great cinematic example of "a diamond in the ruff."
“It’s based on a book” a little more than that hun
I remember seeing it when it was released and hundred of people in the theater crying. Yes we must keep history alive because there are so many that deny it happened.
I saw this with a buddy when we were 22. We both stood outside in the Winnipeg winter afterwards and couldn't speak. It was a matinee, so the crowd was mostly retired folks. It was obvious we had been crying a bit. Some kindly elderly people walked past us, stopped, and patted us on the shoulders. That made us cry more. What an experience.
53:30 that part fuckin kills me.
The whole "I could have got more, and I didn't " how sacred a single human life really is. Though he saved the lives of so many he still feels immense guilt that he didn't get one more person.
Destroys me every time lol
In the Torah was his absolution. "He who saves one life saves the whole world". He did enough. If he had been different, he would have failed. 1100 people was plenty. The Torah absolved him of failing to do more.
Why is your version of the film missing all the ending text that explains what happened to the jews and schindler? Is this pirated?
The ending scene where he is losing it when faced with how many more people he could’ve saved. Wow it’s just so heart wrenching. He played that so well you just can’t help but feel it though the screen
My father served in the US 3rd army (Cannoneer 687th FAB) from 43-45...Normandy,battle of the Bulge' When the Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated in the spring of 45 one of his last duties was helping "clean up" the place.....He brought back pictures he took there...The brutality of the German people was underplayed in this picture....And I restate German people because this did not happen in a vacuum...Those that said they "didn't know" lied.......
Facts. My grandfather was in the German army. He claimed he had no idea, he was just an ordinary unimportant soldier.
My father, about 6 years old, played in the attic one day and found a dusty box full of medals. High decorated my grandfather was... so much for “didn't know anything“
We never had a good relationship with him... for obvious reasons
@@siggilinde5623 And as a US citizen, It is sad to see the effort that is put in trying to divide us into "us and them" in order to do the same thing here.....And when it happens here the death toll will make WW2 look like child's play......Just saying...
Poor Viki. She would cry at a purple lampshade. She's adorable.
The part that made me ugly cry was the girl in the red coat as the song my grandad sang it to me and the end when you match the actors to real people. It’s easy to watch a movie in today and think oh well it’s only acting . They go home each night safe in their beds but when they match them to real survivors it became very very real to me .
6 million murdered Never forget
The great British actor Ralph Fiennes who played Amon should have won an Oscar for his portrayal of the evil commandant.
Ralph Fiennes plays Amon Goethe in this film. He would of course, go on to play Voldemort in the Harry Potter films. Voldemort's pretty scary as a fictional character.
But Amon Goethe was a real person....and one of the worst human rights violators in history, extremely loyal to Hitlers ideals, and one of the worst human beings to ever exist.
Göth. Not Goethe...
I read somewhere he has a grandaughter who's interacial (she said he will killed her if he knew her)
@@a.g.demada5263 Correct, Jennifer Teege. Her mother is Göth's illegitimate daughter and her father was from Nigeria. She grew up in a children's home for seven years before being adopted. She later studied in Israel. She unexpectadly learned of her ancestry when she read the biography of Monika Göth and realized she is her mother. To fight the following depression she wrote the book "My Grandfather would have shot me" about her story. She also made contact to her mother who btw after watching Schindler's List contacted some survicors and befriended them.
@@mathiaswetekam1253 yes, I have forgotten her name.
I think she had been shocked to learn she's the grandaughter of a monster like him
@@SupremeCommanderBaiser Goeth/Goethe is just the english spelling since our alphabet doesn't have ö so to the equivalent is oe
The guy at 58:06 who places a rose on Oscar Schindlers stone, is Liam Neeson himself.
Young people need to see this movie!
@Ashid Mikeks Go and visit Auschwitz. Birkenau's Death Gate, shown in this movie still stands, and so does the camp itself. Parts of the land around the camp and inside it are still marked by human ash three quarters of a century later - over a million people were cremated there, and most of their ashes that went up the chimneys of the Kremas fell back close to them. The ruins of the four large Kremas have been left as they were. The two "bunkers", which served as prototype gas chambers and stayed in use throughout Birkenau's tenure as a death camp. And pile after pile of personal belongings that were sorted but never shipped away for lack of capacity, and kept in the "Kanada" warehouses.
The Shoah was real. It was the worst example of organized mass murder in history. Its stigmata are still visible, mostly in Poland, where most of the death camps were built by the Nazis. And the worst part is, the five and a half million Jews murdered throughout the war by the Nazis are barely a quarter of the number of the civilians the Nazis killed in six years' worth of various extermination campaigns. Europe's Jews, however, hold the unfortunate distinction of being the population whose extermination the Nazis prioritized the most and organized "the best".
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The film is full of nudity and gore.
@@Zachrinox which is what happened in real life so it’s necessary
Even as Schindler did this, know the story of Raoul Wallenberg, who saved approximately 10,000 Jews in Hungary. Raoul was a Swedish official who was arrested by the Soviets and was never seen again.
viki's so sweet and empathetic. really gets to her when people get hurt or bullied
yea her and ellie are both very empathetic
Fact: The extras in the Nazi costumes felt so dirty that they took multiple showers and told their agents that they will NEVER put on another Nazi uniform costume.
This is one of those movies that is really, really difficult to watch. It's a masterpiece. Everything about it is perfection...including how downright awful it can make you feel without even showing just how bad some of the acts of cruelty truly were. It's hauntingly beautiful in a way because the movie was filmed so well, but the nature of what we see is disgusting. It's definitely one of those movies where it's hard to watch it more than once, but everyone should see it at least once because it's the type of film that stays with you.
Vicky , the graves behind belong to christian people, the jewish ones have a star of David. Oscar was catholic, that´s why he was buried there and the only flower was placed by Liam Neeson who played him.
The end was the actual survivors with the actors who played them in the film
That's Oskar Schindler's grave. The people leaving stones are the real Schindler Jews along with their actor counterpart (you can see the real person that the actor was playing). The person leaving the flower is Liam. Oskar remained a free man after the war.
I find it hard to believe that your generation know so little about what happened in this recent part of our history.
Did you girls even realize that at the end there was the old woman at Oscars grave she was the real Helene Hirsch?
I read a story from somebody's grandfather who served in a US regiment that liberated a concentration camp. It was a user in the youtube comments who had posted it (keep in mind, the US forces who found said camps had no idea what went on in the camps and most suffered PTSD after witnessing the brutality that happened there) :
After witnessing what the germans had been doing to the prisoners in the camps, the american soldiers were so angry they started enacting their own vengeance by shooting any german soldier / officer they found against orders.
When a corporal asked said grandfather why the soldiers were also shooting prisoners he told them "They're not prisoners, they're german officers in prison clothing. You can tell by their healthy faces and bodies."
The US higher-ups didn't court-martial anyone for this act of vengeance.
There's another movie about the the Nuremberg trial (the sentencing of officials responsible for the genocide) , starring Alan Rickmam, where for about 1-2 minutes they show actual footage of the concentration camps - dead bodies in massive piles, mass graves and germans bulldozing bodies into them.
This nightmarish period of history is being lost to time now that the last vets are passing away and the new generations can't even fathom such brutality.
Those who forget do so willfully. Younger storytellers are being taught to continue to tell these stories. world War II wasn't on TH-cam, but there were miles of film and pictures that documented almost all of the atrocities. The Reich was meticulous and diligent about documentation, so even their burn orders couldn't erase what they'd done.
In the 1990's, Steven Spielberg produced and directed three movies that each juxtapose the horrific villainy of some humans against the soaring heroism of others. Though their subjects and stories are unrelated, I believe they should view as a set; "Schindler's List", "Saving Private Ryan", and "Amistad". It was only the successes of the first two that allowed him to believe that the third movie was possible.
The girl in the red coat is one of the saddest and most gut wrenching moments in the history of film, and most people miss the significance of it.
The one bit of colour in the whole film is that red coat, as Oskar sees her walking down the street alone, seeming to be looking for her parents, the sad thing about this is missed by most people who watch the film, because later when Oskar is talking to the German officer in front of the burning fields and you see carts full of bodies being pushed towards the fires, one of the carts has got that little girl with the red coat lying dead on top.
I think Schindler really realize what happens when he see her dead
@@a.g.demada5263 I agree. You can even see how profoundly affected he is by her death.
@@scottdecker9115 yes exactly
There was also a bit of color when the candles were lit near the end of the movie.
For me, the most powerful moment in this ASTONISHINGLY powerful film is when the real people he saved went to his grave.
I definitely agree it’s one of the most important movies of the century.
not sure if its been said but at the very end when you see a shadow of a man appear over Oskar's grave and places 2 roses, thats Liam.
You couldn't keep kids off their phones long enough to watch it and teachers don't enforce it
And at the end, Liam himself put 2 roses on the grave.
(A story from the Bible) watch the movie " One Night with the King ". Born of slaves, a young Jewish woman named Hadassah becomes part of the harem of powerful King Xerxes (the god king from 300). Simultaneously, a close adviser to the king hatches a plan to exterminate the Jews. Hadassah, now called Queen Esther (Her story found in the Bible), must find the courage to step forward and save her people from annihilation. Great movie about the one of the first times the Jewish people survived.
My grandfather was in the US Army in WWII that help liberate a camp near Belgium, he had a hard time telling us about what he saw in the camp.
My grandfather was on the other side 😏
My grandfather was a doctor in a Displaced Person Camp - where they went after being liberated and nursed back to health. So until his death we had people come to visit with their own children & grandchildren who had been in the camps. I grew up hearing the stories.
As well as the hell and & PTSD of rebuilding lives after.
Thanks for watching.
i hate you girls, i've seen this movie countless times, but you guys had me crying more than i've had in a long time... you were great, thank you
I think you mean I love you girls not "hate"
@@gemini802 no, i meant hate with the subtext of love. Hate crying. They brought that out in me.
You asked "Why don't they have guns, to shoot back?" Because a few years earlier laws were made that restricted what Jews were allowed to own and allowed to do, and even barred them from living in certain areas/locations. One of the first laws said that Jews could not own guns, so virtually *all* Jews handed over any guns they had to the Authorities. After that, they could not effectively fight back.
Your reactions are a testament to your good hearts. Yes, this was hard to watch, but it should not be watched just once; it is important that the horrors never be forgotten, so you should watch it every so often. For me, I make sure to watch it *at least* once each year.
Oskar Schindler was a saint; he had his faults, he had failings, he wasn't perfect (nobody is - not you or me or anybody); but in the end he knew the Righteous Path, and chose it. He was willing to give up anything - his wealth, his comforts, even his life I believe. We all need to follow his example, and walk in the same Path.
Lia & Vicki - in every country of the West there is at least one Holocaust Memorial Museum (I think they have a special name, but I can't remember it), I think there are 2 or 3 in the U.S. You should visit any of them if you get the chance; there is more to learn in them. And there you will find a book you can sign your name in, basically promising to *Never Forget!*
Part of Never Forgetting is to *Never Look Away!* There are places in the world - even today! - where these kind of horrors happen!
Example: in China the Chinese Communist Party has what they call 'Re-education Camps', but they are Concentration Camps, for Uyghurs. In them the Uyghurs are tortured, and sterilized, and raped, and forced to work, and often killed; several of the Camps have over 10,000 people in them!
*Never Forget! Never Look Away!*