The "little girl in the red coat" was played by a three year old, Oliwia Dabrowska, who pursued a career in acting. She now works in Poland aiding Ukrainian war refugees.
A little bit ironic when you consider Ukraine has a good portion of nazi Ideology😬😬😬😬 And if you don't believe me, all you have to do is do some research and No, i'm not a russian sympathizer.
Greetings from Germany and thank you for checking out this masterpiece. What happened at this time is the logical consequence of one group of humans deciding that another group of humans aren't human. It's as simple as that. And the first steps down that road have been taken many times in human history. Just never that far down. Never on such a scale, never so bureaucratically industrialized. But the seed is always there, in much more of us than we like to admit. It's up to every single one of us to make sure that seed never takes root again. Amon Göth isn't based on a real Nazi, he was a real Nazi. And to give you an impression of how he really was like: He - an SS-Officer - was charged by the Nazi government - during the holocaust!! - among other things for the "improper" treatment of imprisoned persons. Just let that sink in for a second! The most stunning piece of trivia about Göth isn't even about him though. He had an affair, the woman is featured in the movie, living with him in the villa. They had a daughter, born in November 1945. That daughter in turn had a child in 1970 - with a studend from Nigeria and gave the girl away for adoption right after birth. She grew up in Germany, only learning about her ancestry in her 30s. She is a writer and wrote a book about how she discovered her family history. Her name is Jennifer Teege. The fanatic Nazi Amon Göth has a (half) Black granddaughter. That fact alone is the biggest possible "F*CK YOU!!" to any Nazi, any racist, any white supremacist and all the other scum.
True. The seed is always there. It always starts with a bunch of lies about a group of people. Like "they're eating your cats and dogs." Makes me frightend.
@@fempton …or maybe when Jewish students aren’t allowed free and open movement on our institutions of higher “learning”. Having to live in fear from the great brain trusts of the USA.
My family and I lived in Jerusalem for a couple of years and got to visit Schindler’s grave twice. My Dad, my brother, and I went to Krakow, Poland in May 2006 and went to a few film locations of Schindler’s List. The remains of the factory, including that long staircase, and the hill where Schindler and his riding companion witnessed the liquidation of the ghetto. The music really breaks you; John Williams truly is a master. And Itzhak Perlman, a renowned violinist throughout the world, does that violin solo very well. There’s a documentary about Williams on Disney Plus; recommend watching it after the movie.
RE: Schindler's List as Art and Black and White; FYI, there's more than the obvious going on here with the choice to go with black and white. Film studies courses spend quite a lot of time analyzing the various shots in this film which use les obvious cinematographic techniques to heighten the experience. For example, shots which involve a railroad station and a lot of people lined up along them are probably using a long lens and zooming in. And, more obviously, there are times and places in this film where color asserts itself for symbolic and artistic purpose. This is probably Spielberg's finest and most elegant production in terms of the post-production presentation.
The real Helen Hirsch, said in an interview, that the "hand of 21" scene really happened. Also Oskar was captured fleeing west, by the French. When they read the letter, they let him go.
When I first watched this, in high school when they were showing it in all high schools when the mobile came out, I missed the girl too. Turns out, I’m colorblind and just can’t see it.
My favorite fact about Goeth is that he had a daughter out of wedlock from an affair and she had a daughter with a Nigerian man. Goeth's granddaughter is a half Nigerian author who wrote a book titled "My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me." So his heinous legacy died with him.
In 2012, it was estimated that over 8,500 Schindlerjuden were to be living in the United States, Israel, and other countries. It's not something you think about when a single person is saved, you also safe his next generation.
The thing is, this isn’t ancient history. It’s recent. Some of the people who were there are still alive. Don’t think that it can’t possibly happen again.
It can happen again, has happened again, and is happening again. Not on the same scale perhaps, not as rigorously perhaps, but in any case atrocious . Stalin, Idi Amin, East Timor, Khmer Rouge, Bosnia genocide, Rwandan genocide, Gaza, the list goes on and on.
You misunderstood about the hinge-maker. Goeth wanted to kill him not because he was slow… he was actually fast. Goeth was annoyed at how few hinges he made considering he was fast at making them.
@@jcarlovitch Considering how often he killed prisoners for no reason, I seriously doubt he only meant to torment him. It's way more likely he wanted to kill someone, and looked for any reason to do so. Lewartov was just lucky that day, that both guns malfunctioned. But considering the germans at the camp never saw combat, it's not strange they were slacking on gun maintenance. Plus the fact that far-from-frontlines camps would receive the not so good batches of guns / ammunitions / oil
@@daedalron They weren't loaded. Every time you pull the slide back it would extract the chambered round and you can clearly see that both guns did not do so. Also two guns of those types malfunctioning is statistically impossible. Furthermore, Goeth killed many prisoners by other means than firearms.
@@jcarlovitch You're talking about the depiction in the movie. I'm talking about the real event that took place in real life. I seriously doubt Göth, a notorious killer, only meant to torment Lewartov that day.
I once heard that during filming, a survivor named Mila Pfefferberg was introduced to Ralph Fiennes (Amon Göth). He was in full uniform at the time. She began shaking uncontrollably because he reminded her so much of the real Amon Göth.
The fact That I am fully Native American by birth and Jewish by adoption, I feel the message and the lessons of both the Holocaust and the Native American Genocides Hit harder than most.
Winner of 7 Oscars including Best Picture. One of the most powerful and most important movies ever made. When Steven Spielberg won his Oscar, he said that schools all over the world should see this film, and how it affects those around us
I remember back in the 90s, NBC aired this film several times on network TV. This was significant because the FCC permitted the network to air it uncut and unedited. No cuss words were edited out and it was aired in its entirety with no commercial breaks.
The cousin of my wife's grandfather (Mordecai Wulkan) was the jeweler that made the ring for Schindler. A member of the synagogue I grew up in was one of his secretaries. A couple of historical notes: Stern was a composite of about 3 people one of whom was Stern. The showers in Auschwitz would never be confused with the gas chambers they were open air. Schindlers Jews raised money for him when he was broke and invited him to family celebrations. Finally, the are the ones who paid for his body to be flown and buried in Jerusalem.
"Open air" and "gas chamber" are mutually exclusive terms. The original chamber in Auschwitz I was a basement, which proved unsuitable in size. The gas chambers used most extensively were attached to crematoria I at Auschwitz I, and later two more 'bunkers' were built adjacent to crematoria I & II at Auschwitz II. Both facilities were mostly above-ground structures, if that's what you meant. The exterior of these execution chambers were crudely disguised as a sanitary location for disinfecting and de-lousing of new 'inmates' so as to limit the victim's appetite for resistance - the giant chimneys (through which the all-too-recent victims' ashes were unceremoniously dispatched towards the heavens) located adjacent to the building likely belied the truth. Perhaps the most tragic reality of all is that neither the victims nor the perpetrators put much stock in such deception efforts. By the time the victims had arrived, all their hopes of salvation and potential for resistance had already been stripped away from them so totally that none harbored any serious illusions as to their impending fate, but instead may have simply allowed themselves some belief in the obvious lie as a perverse comfort, preferable to facing the impending doom.
I was 12 when when this movie came out and my Grand parents took me to see it opening weekend. They knew it was a good representation of how brutal this time in history, and how my generation must never repeat it. This single movie ignited a desire to know more and more about this time. To this day I watch this movie the same time of the year, between Christmas and New Years.
I like your commentary in general and you keep improving with each upload. This kind of serious material really is a challenge and you step up to the plate. Certain things got by you but I think are more likely understood by older generations who've known and seen many things about the holocaust. Great job keep it uup.
As a jew, I watched it a few times over the years. After having kids I cant anymore. Told my kids I would watch it once with them. Not to ask me again. I think every adult should see it at least once. Schindler is honored in Israel as a righteous gentile.
In 1997, when I was in HS I was in an orchestra and we got the opportunity to tour & perform in Europe. We had a tour company with us the entire time and part of that tour was getting to see the grounds of a concentration camp. It was a very solemn experience, one violist couldn't even go through with it because it was too emotional for her and she decided to stay on the bus. You could feel it in the air, it was palpable. Also, the girl I was dating at the time (someone in the first violin section) and her Jewish father (who was the lead chaperone/doctor for the tour) were also there, so it was an especially poignant moment.
A heartbreaking story for sure, I only wish I could feel what you felt while watching it, for my heart was broken a long time ago and I have no more tears to cry.
Glad you reacted to this. You owe it to yourself to now watch THE PIANIST (2002) and also THE ZONE OF INTEREST (2023) as well. THE ZONE OF INTEREST in particular is a must watch IMO, especially as it ties to the modern world in such a unique way.
So glad you enjoyed this film. By far one of the most tragic but also heartwarming movies of all time. I would highly recommend you watch The Pianist starring Adrian Brody very underrated WWII movies imo.
@@ColetteCherry Please be aware that Elem Klimov's "Come and See"" is a very demanding watch but it is certainly a film everyone should watch at least once.
I remember when it came out - there was coverage all over german and austrian TV, showing people coming out of the theatres... Most of them were crying, unable to give an interview or even a statement... I saw the movie first when I was 11 years old in 1995 and watched it numerous times since then, it´s always heartbreaking.
this was really good.. and you handled it with extra care. you didn't have to, but you did. And that is so kind. Thank you for providing this as one of your reviews and reactions. loved it
My grandfather was part of the Third Army under General Patton when Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated. He never talked about what he saw there with the rest of the family except to say,”I didn’t know people could do that to other people.”
my grand father was postman and was sent for work in germany , my grand mother was making dresses and had the chance to climb on an us tank at liberation of belgium
1:18:14 that guy is probably a Soviet Cavalryman... absolute legends in the battlefield, charging at German tanks with small arms and swords on horse back.There was one time a Cavalry Corp under Pavel Belov, which spent 5 months behind German lines, wreaking havoc..with no contact with the Soviet lines...almost 100000 German soldiers were tied up chasing them for 5 months. Absolute warriors
🏆 Your commentary throughout the film on the characters, personalities and cinematography are a wonderful tribute to the film and Oskar Schindler's story. Magnificent movie reaction video. Thank you.
A weird bit of Oskar Schindler's background--he raced motorcycles in the 1920s, where if you survive a crash, your bones are shattered, not just broken, and post injury infections, long before antibiotics, were highly likely to kill you as well. Schindler already had the basic guts to do what he did, he just needed the right motivation.
He also worked as a spy for the German Abwehr (intelligence agency), spying against Czechoslovakia before it was annexed and was arrested once for it. His Abwehr contacts were some of the first important connections he had.
I cried more than you and I've seen this several times. The one more part just gets me every time. This is one of cinema's most important films. Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
war films that centre on human suffering is emotionally draining. It's fitting that you're watching it around remembrance/veterans day (my birthday is 11-11). Bravo for putting yourself through it.
It was so nice to see you recognized and appreciated those fine and very important cinematographic bits holding great values. The shocking and cruel moments depicted in this movie can be so overwhelming, not so many people can still appreciate those little details you recognized ❤
21:50 Stern in the boxcar. In real life it wasn’t Sterne in the boxcar, but 16 of Schindler's workers. When they got them out, the remaining passengers breathed a sigh of relief and thanked Schindler for making more room in the boxcar. They were on their way to the extermination camp Sobibor. 27:20 Patients at the hospital. When they were chased out of their original homes and down to the ghetto the Germans threw live patients from the height of the 2nd and 3rd floors. What you don’t see in the movie, the Germans took the staff, 21, out on the street and shot them. 48:36 Hellen in the cellar. It’s all fiction. Amon never had any affection for Hellen or any other jew. Within the first week Hellen worked in the house, she walked from her own quarters to Amons house and on the way she saw a lot of wild flowers on the roadside and she picked so many that she could hardly carry them. At Amons house, his girlfriend was home and she helped Hellen arrange the flowers, put the i vases and what not. When Amon got home from work in the afternoon, he was very surprised and pleased with all the flowers and he thanked his girlfriend. His girlfriend told Amon that it was all Hellens idea and Amon replied: “Yeah!? Well, I still hate her.” 52:11 Everybody who's alive, come to the appel platz. That’s how it was in the beginning in all german concentration camps, there was a roll call morning , noon and night. Later as the camps grew they only had a roll call in the morning and at evening. The rule was, at morning roll call, the living would have to carry all those who had died during the night so that they could be counted too and the number from the previous evening count could match up. At the end of the movie, Schindler and his wife both changed clothing to a prisoner uniform in case they would be captured by the Russians. They instead got captured at an american checkpoint at the border between germany and Switzerland and with his two jewish helpers and the note, the americans gave him some more valid and official travel documents and helped him on his way.
It was said when they were filming or after filming, they showed the survivors pictures of Ralph Fiennes who was playing the role of Amon Goeth, some of them broke down or had severe reactions from seeing him. Something like that. But he was a real person.
The man was relieved of duty by the SS because he was going too far... That says everything... He was shooting prisoners on a daily basis. Had his cook executed because he was once served soup that was too hot...
Interesting fact: the SS officer asking "What is your name, mother?" is credited as Dr. Joseph Mengele. Mengele was known as the "Angel of Death," and even Slayer made a song of the same name, describing Mengele's sadistic experiments.
“You were making out during Schindler's list?” I remember when this movie was released. It was very moving. Its effect hasn’t diminished over the decades.
Hello Colette, How was your weekend? 🙋🏻♂️👋🏻 It's a very sad movie because of its story 😞 The movie is currently on MAX in some countries! Colette will you continue making reaction videos on your TH-cam channel? I miss you so much ❤️
I saw this in theaters when it first came out, and it haunted me for months. I wasn’t sure if I could watch it again. I have seen a couple of reactions to it recently, but they didn’t show as much brutality as you. Thanks for not holding back.
Believe it or not, nylon stockings were very valued on the black market during the war. Nylon was used extensively to make parachutes and other items of clothing needed for military use. Nylon stockings were so engrained to women's fashion that in American cities there were parlors where ladies could go and get their legs painted with a fishnet stocking pattern or just a seam going down the back of their legs.
It's insane to think Steven Spielberg was working on Jurassic Park and this at the same time. This is beyond belief of cruelty and more importantly, reality. I Implore you to see "The Fallen of World War 2." It isn't fancy, no amazing actors, no special effects. Just facts. And it's devastating to see the scale of evil of the Nazi's. Remember they weren't monsters, they were humans doing monstrous things. Never Forget
I read up on Amon Goeth about 10 years ago,... Spielberg did not depict nearly all that happened in the camp... endless whipping with a bull whip, hangings where the bodies were left to swing for days as a warning, , even set his dogs on some prisoners who were ripped apart... and other things. He felt that this gratuitous violence would not be believed by the audience and enough had been done to show the brutality of Goeth by then. Ralph Feinnes was deprived of an Oscar for his role which he found to be very difficult emotionally to play
Amon Goth said "thank you", because Schindler said it to the girl earlier in the scene. He didn't want to seem smaller than Schindler in front of the girl. You have to pay attention to the details and know a little about human nature.
As most Irish American, I heard many old tales from the old country from where grandparents come. Know it's not as bad what the Jewish holocaust, but the Brits did us the same with the famine, just not as organized. So I sympathize. Just don't understand the hate for Jewish folk. Ok, I did have a Jewish girlfriend that cheated on me and the other gal we didn't really work out, but no reason to hate a folk.
In medieval times Jewish weren't allowed to buy farmland or to practice any craft all around Europe. Christian religion had real power back then. There was not much left to do for living like trade and finance. You can see that influence of history until now. With trade and their advantage of using the widespread international community of Jews in diaspora some of them gained real power and extraordinary wealth. That produces envy and resentment as you can imagine. Rest is history.
The crazy thing is that this movie was filmed in Krakow and on the former site of the Plazcow concentration camp. They filmed it where it happened! The Ghetto masacre was filmed in Krakow, just in another neighborhood because the original Jewish quarter is now full of modern buildings.
Seen this movie so many times and still hits me and I cry every time at the end. The purge was such a waste of so many lives. One can only wonder, who may have been the next great poet? Who the next great composer? Who the next great inventor? Who could have been the greatest doctor or scientist who came up with cures to diseases we are still plagued by today? Sickening how many lives are just wasted and still are today in many countries.
Reminds me of something that I saw over 55 years ago. My mother's parents had immigrated from Canada and lived in a small trailer park with my aunt and uncle in the small town where I grew up. We met some of their neighbors, an older couple (it appeared to me at the time) who were quite friendly but rather reserved. They invited us over to their place for a late lunch one day. Everyone had a great time, but I noticed during the meal that the man and his wife both had numbers tattooed on their arms. They were both holocaust survivors.
This was the best Schindlers list reaction I have seen. Thank you for not censoring the language and the brutality. It makes watching along with you like I’m there with you ❤ Edit: On a very different topic, will you react to the LOTR the return of king!?
Yes I did react to LOTR 3! It’s posted on my patreon.com/colettecherry (the uncut and the youtube version) because I am having copyright issues on TH-cam so I took a break from trying to edit it
One fact the film does not cover is the reason Schindler was protected and had powerful friends and it was not just the bribes. He had been a spy for the Abwehr, the German armies intelligence agency and played a role in gathering the intelligence information that allows the Germans to quickly defeat the Polish army when they invaded. The abwehr interestingly contained many German soldiers who opposed the Nazi ideology including Admiral Wilhielm Canaris, the agencies head for much of the period. Canarisw initially tried to lodge official complaints receiving reports from Abwehr agents of the mass killings the SS Eintzatzgrupen where commiting in Poland and on the Eastern Front. Canaris also saved a number of Jews by giving them documentation that declared they where Abwehr agents. The actions of Canaris and other abwehr agents like Schindler lead to animosity from the SS and the head of the SS , Heinrich Himmler and Gesgapo head Reinhard Heydrich(two of the main architects of the Holocaust along with Heydrich aide Adolf Eichmann). Canaris was later arrested, tried and executed after the failed July 20 plot to kill Hitler by members of the German military, the story of this plot has also been made into a film Operation Valkyrie.
15:50 -- RE: "He's taking advantage of the Free Jewish Labor.";; A: Not quite. He's taking advantage of the much cheaper Jewish population and as Stern told him, he has to pay the Jewish wages directly to the SS. They're not Free, and they're not freely able to spend what they earn, which is why Schindler can find other ways to pay them.
Wait... This is over 3 hours?!? I have watched this movie SO many times and it always felt like a standard ~2 hour movie. It has never felt like a long movie to me!
It appeared that you did not notice the little girl in red in the burning bodies seen near the end of the film, I really enjoyed watching with you and your insights.
I love how you catch yourself realising you’re talking about how to manipulate people to the people you try to manipulate, but then you just run with it ‘cos you know most of them won’t figure it out or won’t care.
While making this movie, Spielberg wouldn't even communicate with the actors playing the Einsatzgruppen. These were actors of the German theater playing these parts. Spielberg would give them direction but he wouldn't make small talk with them as he couldn't get past the Schutzstaffel uniforms. That is until a beautiful thing happened very early in production. A Passover Seder was held at the hotel the cast and crew were staying. Spielberg had all the Jewish actors sitting around at a table, then all the German actors walked in wearing yarmulkes and participated in the rituals of the Passover Seder and Spielberg was moved to tears.
Members of the Einsatzgruppen were present in the book about Schindler, but not in the movie. They were SS Totenkopf or Death Head units that managed concentration camps.
Spielberg explained his choice in shooting in B&W was because when he was growing up and saw anything on the war it was only in B&W. So he only ever saw the war that way. It was the way he remembered it.
Great and insightful reactions as always. If you’re interested in staying on the subject, I highly suggest to watch “Conspiracy”, a movie with superb acting, amazing diologue and so much nuisance to every expression, as it takes place in one room for the majority of the film, while discussing the fate and most horrible execution of one of humanities worst periods.
The moment you see the girl doing that throat slit gesture you know the train is headed for Auschwitz because she was obviously used to seeing the trains.
The "little girl in the red coat" was played by a three year old, Oliwia Dabrowska, who pursued a career in acting. She now works in Poland aiding Ukrainian war refugees.
A little bit ironic when you consider Ukraine has a good portion of nazi Ideology😬😬😬😬 And if you don't believe me, all you have to do is do some research and No, i'm not a russian sympathizer.
"She now works in Poland aiding Ukrainian war refugees"
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@@RoverWaters She did work helping ukrainian war refugees at the start of the ukraine / russia 2022 war.
Not sure if she still does or not.
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The girl in round glasses is Anna Mucha, now a quite famous TV and theatre actress here in Poland.
Being from Poland, this movie is special to me. I really suggest watching "The Pianist" as well. Thank you for watching this one!
Yeah, The Pianist (2002) director was a 10yr old Jewish boy when the Nazis invaded Poland. He actually lived through this nightmare
@@grichard1585the courage to make that movie with all that in his brain from his childhood 😢
Greetings from Germany and thank you for checking out this masterpiece.
What happened at this time is the logical consequence of one group of humans deciding that another group of humans aren't human. It's as simple as that. And the first steps down that road have been taken many times in human history. Just never that far down. Never on such a scale, never so bureaucratically industrialized.
But the seed is always there, in much more of us than we like to admit. It's up to every single one of us to make sure that seed never takes root again.
Amon Göth isn't based on a real Nazi, he was a real Nazi. And to give you an impression of how he really was like: He - an SS-Officer - was charged by the Nazi government - during the holocaust!! - among other things for the "improper" treatment of imprisoned persons. Just let that sink in for a second!
The most stunning piece of trivia about Göth isn't even about him though. He had an affair, the woman is featured in the movie, living with him in the villa. They had a daughter, born in November 1945. That daughter in turn had a child in 1970 - with a studend from Nigeria and gave the girl away for adoption right after birth. She grew up in Germany, only learning about her ancestry in her 30s. She is a writer and wrote a book about how she discovered her family history. Her name is Jennifer Teege.
The fanatic Nazi Amon Göth has a (half) Black granddaughter. That fact alone is the biggest possible "F*CK YOU!!" to any Nazi, any racist, any white supremacist and all the other scum.
True. The seed is always there. It always starts with a bunch of lies about a group of people. Like "they're eating your cats and dogs."
Makes me frightend.
@@fempton …or maybe when Jewish students aren’t allowed free and open movement on our institutions of higher “learning”. Having to live in fear from the great brain trusts of the USA.
Collette a little known fact for you. The man laying the rose and seen from distance at the grave of Oskar schindler is none other than Liam neeson
I don't think that's a little known fact, it's pretty obvious that it's him.
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"litte known" my donkey. A whole lot of audiences took one look at the silhouette and could tell who it was just by looking at his nose.
Yes, and the final scenes the living survivors went to Shinldlers grave to drop stones with the people who portrayed them in the movie.
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My family and I lived in Jerusalem for a couple of years and got to visit Schindler’s grave twice.
My Dad, my brother, and I went to Krakow, Poland in May 2006 and went to a few film locations of Schindler’s List. The remains of the factory, including that long staircase, and the hill where Schindler and his riding companion witnessed the liquidation of the ghetto.
The music really breaks you; John Williams truly is a master. And Itzhak Perlman, a renowned violinist throughout the world, does that violin solo very well. There’s a documentary about Williams on Disney Plus; recommend watching it after the movie.
RE: Schindler's List as Art and Black and White; FYI, there's more than the obvious going on here with the choice to go with black and white. Film studies courses spend quite a lot of time analyzing the various shots in this film which use les obvious cinematographic techniques to heighten the experience. For example, shots which involve a railroad station and a lot of people lined up along them are probably using a long lens and zooming in. And, more obviously, there are times and places in this film where color asserts itself for symbolic and artistic purpose.
This is probably Spielberg's finest and most elegant production in terms of the post-production presentation.
The real Helen Hirsch, said in an interview, that the "hand of 21" scene really happened.
Also Oskar was captured fleeing west, by the French. When they read the letter, they let him go.
Ooh I didn't know THAT part. Off to find out what it said.....
*was captured with a bunch of diamonds that were taken from him.
You missed the girl in red on the cart when you said " Children, so many children"
When I first watched this, in high school when they were showing it in all high schools when the mobile came out, I missed the girl too. Turns out, I’m colorblind and just can’t see it.
My favorite fact about Goeth is that he had a daughter out of wedlock from an affair and she had a daughter with a Nigerian man. Goeth's granddaughter is a half Nigerian author who wrote a book titled "My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me." So his heinous legacy died with him.
If you believe in karma or poetic justice, that definitely qualifies.
In 2012, it was estimated that over 8,500 Schindlerjuden were to be living in the United States, Israel, and other countries. It's not something you think about when a single person is saved, you also safe his next generation.
The thing is, this isn’t ancient history. It’s recent. Some of the people who were there are still alive. Don’t think that it can’t possibly happen again.
@@kregmaffews So? It actually happened. If you're a Holocaust denier just go DIAF.
@@kregmaffews Surprised you noticed!
It can happen again, has happened again, and is happening again. Not on the same scale perhaps, not as rigorously perhaps, but in any case atrocious . Stalin, Idi Amin, East Timor, Khmer Rouge, Bosnia genocide, Rwandan genocide, Gaza, the list goes on and on.
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@@assrammington7961 Go away, Adolf. and you wonder why you're an incel.
You misunderstood about the hinge-maker. Goeth wanted to kill him not because he was slow… he was actually fast. Goeth was annoyed at how few hinges he made considering he was fast at making them.
No, goeth just wanted to kill someone. It wouldn't have mattered what the worker did.
Goeth didn't want to kill him he wanted to torment him. Both pistols were not loaded.
@@jcarlovitch Considering how often he killed prisoners for no reason, I seriously doubt he only meant to torment him. It's way more likely he wanted to kill someone, and looked for any reason to do so. Lewartov was just lucky that day, that both guns malfunctioned. But considering the germans at the camp never saw combat, it's not strange they were slacking on gun maintenance. Plus the fact that far-from-frontlines camps would receive the not so good batches of guns / ammunitions / oil
@@daedalron They weren't loaded. Every time you pull the slide back it would extract the chambered round and you can clearly see that both guns did not do so. Also two guns of those types malfunctioning is statistically impossible. Furthermore, Goeth killed many prisoners by other means than firearms.
@@jcarlovitch You're talking about the depiction in the movie. I'm talking about the real event that took place in real life. I seriously doubt Göth, a notorious killer, only meant to torment Lewartov that day.
I once heard that during filming, a survivor named Mila Pfefferberg was introduced to Ralph Fiennes (Amon Göth). He was in full uniform at the time. She began shaking uncontrollably because he reminded her so much of the real Amon Göth.
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@@kregmaffewswtf is wrong with u ?
The movie is based on a novel tho
@@Pedro-sq6gq Based on a true story. Oskar Schindler, Amon Göth, etc. were real people.
@@terminallumbago6465 No, Schindler's List is based on the 1982 novel Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally.
The fact That I am fully Native American by birth and Jewish by adoption, I feel the message and the lessons of both the Holocaust and the Native American Genocides Hit harder than most.
Winner of 7 Oscars including Best Picture.
One of the most powerful and most important movies ever made.
When Steven Spielberg won his Oscar, he said that schools all over the world should see this film, and how it affects those around us
When I was a kid, they showed this on regular network tv completely unedited and with no commercials.
I cannot believe that Ralph Fiennes lost best supporting actor to Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive
Im 21, and I was required to watch it twice in Highschool for history class. I’m so glad it’s incorporated into U.S education.
I remember back in the 90s, NBC aired this film several times on network TV. This was significant because the FCC permitted the network to air it uncut and unedited. No cuss words were edited out and it was aired in its entirety with no commercial breaks.
The cousin of my wife's grandfather (Mordecai Wulkan) was the jeweler that made the ring for Schindler.
A member of the synagogue I grew up in was one of his secretaries.
A couple of historical notes:
Stern was a composite of about 3 people one of whom was Stern.
The showers in Auschwitz would never be confused with the gas chambers they were open air.
Schindlers Jews raised money for him when he was broke and invited him to family celebrations.
Finally, the are the ones who paid for his body to be flown and buried in Jerusalem.
Thank you for that information, that is amazing to know.
"Open air" and "gas chamber" are mutually exclusive terms. The original chamber in Auschwitz I was a basement, which proved unsuitable in size. The gas chambers used most extensively were attached to crematoria I at Auschwitz I, and later two more 'bunkers' were built adjacent to crematoria I & II at Auschwitz II. Both facilities were mostly above-ground structures, if that's what you meant.
The exterior of these execution chambers were crudely disguised as a sanitary location for disinfecting and de-lousing of new 'inmates' so as to limit the victim's appetite for resistance - the giant chimneys (through which the all-too-recent victims' ashes were unceremoniously dispatched towards the heavens) located adjacent to the building likely belied the truth. Perhaps the most tragic reality of all is that neither the victims nor the perpetrators put much stock in such deception efforts. By the time the victims had arrived, all their hopes of salvation and potential for resistance had already been stripped away from them so totally that none harbored any serious illusions as to their impending fate, but instead may have simply allowed themselves some belief in the obvious lie as a perverse comfort, preferable to facing the impending doom.
Hi Colette, It's great to see you again and you look nice❤
Happy to watch your reaction to this movie !!
Your reactions are always enjoyable to watch.
I was 12 when when this movie came out and my Grand parents took me to see it opening weekend. They knew it was a good representation of how brutal this time in history, and how my generation must never repeat it. This single movie ignited a desire to know more and more about this time.
To this day I watch this movie the same time of the year, between Christmas and New Years.
Definitely not grabbing snacks for this one, but I have tissues here and let's go watching
I like your commentary in general and you keep improving with each upload. This kind of serious material really is a challenge and you step up to the plate. Certain things got by you but I think are more likely understood by older generations who've known and seen many things about the holocaust. Great job keep it uup.
The Pianist is another good one, i suggest you watch it too.
A Polanski classic
This was such a moving movie!! Good choice! BTW, I miss you on Twitch. You were a shining light for that place.
I love you Colette!!! Please keep up the hard work ❤❤❤
During the filming Robin Williams would fly in and do comedy to cheer people up. He did so for free as he realized how important this movie was.
And Adam Sandler's Red Hooded Sweatshirt song & Seinfeld helped too.
This is without any doubt Liam Neeson’s greatest performance. The fact that he refused any payment just shows his dedication for the role.
Been waiting for a long time
As a jew, I watched it a few times over the years. After having kids I cant anymore. Told my kids I would watch it once with them. Not to ask me again. I think every adult should see it at least once. Schindler is honored in Israel as a righteous gentile.
Great reaction!!!
You knew the story and had great dialogue of what happened 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Hi Colette hope you are having an great and awesome day ❤
Only few films thats gotten me to cry every single watch rewatch reaction watch💔 1 More person
In 1997, when I was in HS I was in an orchestra and we got the opportunity to tour & perform in Europe. We had a tour company with us the entire time and part of that tour was getting to see the grounds of a concentration camp. It was a very solemn experience, one violist couldn't even go through with it because it was too emotional for her and she decided to stay on the bus. You could feel it in the air, it was palpable. Also, the girl I was dating at the time (someone in the first violin section) and her Jewish father (who was the lead chaperone/doctor for the tour) were also there, so it was an especially poignant moment.
A heartbreaking story for sure, I only wish I could feel what you felt while watching it, for my heart was broken a long time ago and I have no more tears to cry.
Glad you reacted to this. You owe it to yourself to now watch THE PIANIST (2002) and also THE ZONE OF INTEREST (2023) as well. THE ZONE OF INTEREST in particular is a must watch IMO, especially as it ties to the modern world in such a unique way.
So glad you enjoyed this film. By far one of the most tragic but also heartwarming movies of all time. I would highly recommend you watch The Pianist starring Adrian Brody very underrated WWII movies imo.
Please follow up this with "Come and See", a Soviet movie about the German occupation of Belarus.
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@@ColetteCherry Please be aware that Elem Klimov's "Come and See"" is a very demanding watch but it is certainly a film everyone should watch at least once.
@@ColetteCherry This movie is Pure Propaganda Rubbish
@@PrinceofPain-wv1lo Same as most of Hollywood.
@DarthVader-ig6ci Soviet union did the holodomor...Under small hat control
I remember when it came out - there was coverage all over german and austrian TV, showing people coming out of the theatres... Most of them were crying, unable to give an interview or even a statement...
I saw the movie first when I was 11 years old in 1995 and watched it numerous times since then, it´s always heartbreaking.
this was really good.. and you handled it with extra care. you didn't have to, but you did. And that is so kind. Thank you for providing this as one of your reviews and reactions. loved it
A highly emotional, well made success story.
You are the best reactor on TH-cam and it's not only because you look like an angel, but because your emotions and film choice
My grandfather was part of the Third Army under General Patton when Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated. He never talked about what he saw there with the rest of the family except to say,”I didn’t know people could do that to other people.”
What? Keep people in interment camps during war? All the allies did this
@@ColmPadraig thats not the only thing tjat happend there
@@ColmPadraig GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR RECTUM!
@henningratjen4364 I know, the swimming pools, football field, drama clubs, etc. The allies didn't have that in their camps
my grand father was postman and was sent for work in germany , my grand mother was making dresses and had the chance to climb on an us tank at liberation of belgium
1:18:14 that guy is probably a Soviet Cavalryman... absolute legends in the battlefield, charging at German tanks with small arms and swords on horse back.There was one time a Cavalry Corp under Pavel Belov, which spent 5 months behind German lines, wreaking havoc..with no contact with the Soviet lines...almost 100000 German soldiers were tied up chasing them for 5 months. Absolute warriors
🏆 Your commentary throughout the film on the characters, personalities and cinematography are a wonderful tribute to the film and Oskar Schindler's story. Magnificent movie reaction video. Thank you.
I really appreciate that! This film was extremely powerful
A weird bit of Oskar Schindler's background--he raced motorcycles in the 1920s, where if you survive a crash, your bones are shattered, not just broken, and post injury infections, long before antibiotics, were highly likely to kill you as well. Schindler already had the basic guts to do what he did, he just needed the right motivation.
He also worked as a spy for the German Abwehr (intelligence agency), spying against Czechoslovakia before it was annexed and was arrested once for it.
His Abwehr contacts were some of the first important connections he had.
"What are they doing to children?" Oh, you sweet summer child...
Definitely recommend The Pianist as well. It’s also based on a true story, or at least the memoirs of a survivor.
I keep hearing that! Will check it out 🍿☺️
I cried more than you and I've seen this several times. The one more part just gets me every time. This is one of cinema's most important films. Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
Oh boy, here we go. There will be tears.
Thank you for reacting to this. BTW.. I love that shirt, where is it from?
war films that centre on human suffering is emotionally draining. It's fitting that you're watching it around remembrance/veterans day (my birthday is 11-11). Bravo for putting yourself through it.
Oh no, I just seen the cover to this video 😢.
Here we go
, good ta see ya, missed you.
Hi Colette I wish you have an amazing day ❤
It was so nice to see you recognized and appreciated those fine and very important cinematographic bits holding great values. The shocking and cruel moments depicted in this movie can be so overwhelming, not so many people can still appreciate those little details you recognized ❤
21:50 Stern in the boxcar. In real life it wasn’t Sterne in the boxcar, but 16 of Schindler's workers. When they got them out, the remaining passengers breathed a sigh of relief and thanked Schindler for making more room in the boxcar. They were on their way to the extermination camp Sobibor.
27:20 Patients at the hospital. When they were chased out of their original homes and down to the ghetto the Germans threw live patients from the height of the 2nd and 3rd floors. What you don’t see in the movie, the Germans took the staff, 21, out on the street and shot them.
48:36 Hellen in the cellar. It’s all fiction. Amon never had any affection for Hellen or any other jew. Within the first week Hellen worked in the house, she walked from her own quarters to Amons house and on the way she saw a lot of wild flowers on the roadside and she picked so many that she could hardly carry them.
At Amons house, his girlfriend was home and she helped Hellen arrange the flowers, put the i vases and what not. When Amon got home from work in the afternoon, he was very surprised and pleased with all the flowers and he thanked his girlfriend.
His girlfriend told Amon that it was all Hellens idea and Amon replied: “Yeah!? Well, I still hate her.”
52:11 Everybody who's alive, come to the appel platz. That’s how it was in the beginning in all german concentration camps, there was a roll call morning , noon and night. Later as the camps grew they only had a roll call in the morning and at evening. The rule was, at morning roll call, the living would have to carry all those who had died during the night so that they could be counted too and the number from the previous evening count could match up.
At the end of the movie, Schindler and his wife both changed clothing to a prisoner uniform in case they would be captured by the Russians. They instead got captured at an american checkpoint at the border between germany and Switzerland and with his two jewish helpers and the note, the americans gave him some more valid and official travel documents and helped him on his way.
I see that everyone watching has signed up for the group cry session today
It was said when they were filming or after filming, they showed the survivors pictures of Ralph Fiennes who was playing the role of Amon Goeth, some of them broke down or had severe reactions from seeing him. Something like that. But he was a real person.
The fact that they had to tone down Amon Göths evil acts says alot about him
The man was relieved of duty by the SS because he was going too far... That says everything...
He was shooting prisoners on a daily basis. Had his cook executed because he was once served soup that was too hot...
Interesting fact: the SS officer asking "What is your name, mother?" is credited as Dr. Joseph Mengele. Mengele was known as the "Angel of Death," and even Slayer made a song of the same name, describing Mengele's sadistic experiments.
The last one of nazis in the factory was eager to kill, but it was too a coward so he choose to leave
One of Steven Spielberg s best films! A sad movie , but a damn good one
“You were making out during Schindler's list?” I remember when this movie was released. It was very moving. Its effect hasn’t diminished over the decades.
Hello Colette, How was your weekend? 🙋🏻♂️👋🏻
It's a very sad movie because of its story 😞
The movie is currently on MAX in some countries!
Colette will you continue making reaction videos on your TH-cam channel? I miss you so much ❤️
Your hair looks really pretty Colette 🥰
How can anyone watch Schindler's List without shedding a tear but you nailed it
You clearly didn’t watch this reaction then
My tears are falling down and I lick them 😭?
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I don't think Goeth is practicing. I think he's realizing he can pardon himself.
I saw this in theaters when it first came out, and it haunted me for months. I wasn’t sure if I could watch it again. I have seen a couple of reactions to it recently, but they didn’t show as much brutality as you. Thanks for not holding back.
Believe it or not, nylon stockings were very valued on the black market during the war. Nylon was used extensively to make parachutes and other items of clothing needed for military use. Nylon stockings were so engrained to women's fashion that in American cities there were parlors where ladies could go and get their legs painted with a fishnet stocking pattern or just a seam going down the back of their legs.
It's insane to think Steven Spielberg was working on Jurassic Park and this at the same time. This is beyond belief of cruelty and more importantly, reality. I Implore you to see "The Fallen of World War 2." It isn't fancy, no amazing actors, no special effects. Just facts. And it's devastating to see the scale of evil of the Nazi's. Remember they weren't monsters, they were humans doing monstrous things. Never Forget
His people are brilliant at fiction and lies
I read up on Amon Goeth about 10 years ago,... Spielberg did not depict nearly all that happened in the camp... endless whipping with a bull whip, hangings where the bodies were left to swing for days as a warning, , even set his dogs on some prisoners who were ripped apart... and other things.
He felt that this gratuitous violence would not be believed by the audience and enough had been done to show the brutality of Goeth by then.
Ralph Feinnes was deprived of an Oscar for his role which he found to be very difficult emotionally to play
Fiennes got the BAFTA, but he was definitely robbed for the Oscars.
I saw this movie in 11th grade English class, and it was insane. That's all I can say about it. GREAT movie, but it hits really hard.
Macabre way they played the kindergarten song to get the kids believe they're going on a trip or excursion when they weren't
Amon Goth said "thank you", because Schindler said it to the girl earlier in the scene. He didn't want to seem smaller than Schindler in front of the girl. You have to pay attention to the details and know a little about human nature.
58:45 you missed the girl in red
I did miss it :( so sad
Unless you edited the reaction out, you missed the final appearance of the Red Coat girl, her body on a cart being dumped into the fire
I heard that Spielberg was the one placing the rose on Schindler's grave, and Neeson was standing in front of the grave at the end.
As most Irish American, I heard many old tales from the old country from where grandparents come. Know it's not as bad what the Jewish holocaust, but the Brits did us the same with the famine, just not as organized. So I sympathize. Just don't understand the hate for Jewish folk. Ok, I did have a Jewish girlfriend that cheated on me and the other gal we didn't really work out, but no reason to hate a folk.
In medieval times Jewish weren't allowed to buy farmland or to practice any craft all around Europe. Christian religion had real power back then. There was not much left to do for living like trade and finance. You can see that influence of history until now.
With trade and their advantage of using the widespread international community of Jews in diaspora some of them gained real power and extraordinary wealth.
That produces envy and resentment as you can imagine. Rest is history.
The crazy thing is that this movie was filmed in Krakow and on the former site of the Plazcow concentration camp. They filmed it where it happened! The Ghetto masacre was filmed in Krakow, just in another neighborhood because the original Jewish quarter is now full of modern buildings.
Seen this movie so many times and still hits me and I cry every time at the end. The purge was such a waste of so many lives. One can only wonder, who may have been the next great poet? Who the next great composer? Who the next great inventor? Who could have been the greatest doctor or scientist who came up with cures to diseases we are still plagued by today? Sickening how many lives are just wasted and still are today in many countries.
Oscar was a scam artist. He was a very devious man…and then saved so many lives, losing everything.
It is the greatest redemption story in history.
Such a touching story great cast 😅❤👊🏿
The man at the end, putting the flower on Schindlers grave, is Liam Neeson.
Oh I’m expecting to see you take breaks with this. It’s absolutely heartbreaking
Reminds me of something that I saw over 55 years ago. My mother's parents had immigrated from Canada and lived in a small trailer park with my aunt and uncle in the small town where I grew up. We met some of their neighbors, an older couple (it appeared to me at the time) who were quite friendly but rather reserved. They invited us over to their place for a late lunch one day. Everyone had a great time, but I noticed during the meal that the man and his wife both had numbers tattooed on their arms. They were both holocaust survivors.
This was the best Schindlers list reaction I have seen. Thank you for not censoring the language and the brutality. It makes watching along with you like I’m there with you ❤
Edit: On a very different topic, will you react to the LOTR the return of king!?
Yes I did react to LOTR 3! It’s posted on my patreon.com/colettecherry (the uncut and the youtube version) because I am having copyright issues on TH-cam so I took a break from trying to edit it
The fact that this movie has kept showing up all over the place recently.... It's...hopefully not an omen for the future.
Except for the Azov Brigade and the RVC being neo-Nazis within the Ukrainian military..
It is. But not for Jews.
One fact the film does not cover is the reason Schindler was protected and had powerful friends and it was not just the bribes.
He had been a spy for the Abwehr, the German armies intelligence agency and played a role in gathering the intelligence information that allows the Germans to quickly defeat the Polish army when they invaded.
The abwehr interestingly contained many German soldiers who opposed the Nazi ideology including Admiral Wilhielm Canaris, the agencies head for much of the period. Canarisw initially tried to lodge official complaints receiving reports from Abwehr agents of the mass killings the SS Eintzatzgrupen where commiting in Poland and on the Eastern Front. Canaris also saved a number of Jews by giving them documentation that declared they where Abwehr agents.
The actions of Canaris and other abwehr agents like Schindler lead to animosity from the SS and the head of the SS , Heinrich Himmler and Gesgapo head Reinhard Heydrich(two of the main architects of the Holocaust along with Heydrich aide Adolf Eichmann). Canaris was later arrested, tried and executed after the failed July 20 plot to kill Hitler by members of the German military, the story of this plot has also been made into a film Operation Valkyrie.
Oskar died in October 1974 and he's buried in Jerusalem
15:50 -- RE: "He's taking advantage of the Free Jewish Labor.";; A: Not quite. He's taking advantage of the much cheaper Jewish population and as Stern told him, he has to pay the Jewish wages directly to the SS. They're not Free, and they're not freely able to spend what they earn, which is why Schindler can find other ways to pay them.
Wait... This is over 3 hours?!? I have watched this movie SO many times and it always felt like a standard ~2 hour movie. It has never felt like a long movie to me!
Right? My recording was 3 hours 45 minutes because I was pausing so much to learn and react and talk haha
I call this one Spielberg’s BABY
It appeared that you did not notice the little girl in red in the burning bodies seen near the end of the film, I really enjoyed watching with you and your insights.
I love how you catch yourself realising you’re talking about how to manipulate people to the people you try to manipulate, but then you just run with it ‘cos you know most of them won’t figure it out or won’t care.
Bro you okay? You seem on edge ..
@@ColetteCherry
All good, sis. A long way from the edge, but thanks for checking.
While making this movie, Spielberg wouldn't even communicate with the actors playing the Einsatzgruppen. These were actors of the German theater playing these parts. Spielberg would give them direction but he wouldn't make small talk with them as he couldn't get past the Schutzstaffel uniforms. That is until a beautiful thing happened very early in production. A Passover Seder was held at the hotel the cast and crew were staying. Spielberg had all the Jewish actors sitting around at a table, then all the German actors walked in wearing yarmulkes and participated in the rituals of the Passover Seder and Spielberg was moved to tears.
Members of the Einsatzgruppen were present in the book about Schindler, but not in the movie. They were SS Totenkopf or Death Head units that managed concentration camps.
Spielberg explained his choice in shooting in B&W was because when he was growing up and saw anything on the war it was only in B&W. So he only ever saw the war that way. It was the way he remembered it.
I've seen 2,225 films. Only two I've never been able to watch twice: This, and The Passion of the Christ.
Great and insightful reactions as always. If you’re interested in staying on the subject, I highly suggest to watch “Conspiracy”, a movie with superb acting, amazing diologue and so much nuisance to every expression, as it takes place in one room for the majority of the film, while discussing the fate and most horrible execution of one of humanities worst periods.
I don't think 20,000 people would've been enough Schindler. In his mind, there probably always would've been the "one more person" he couldn't save.
The moment you see the girl doing that throat slit gesture you know the train is headed for Auschwitz because she was obviously used to seeing the trains.
Ralph Fiennes is the ultimate movie villain; this movie, Harry Potter, Red Dragon