Guys, c'mon, in the beginning of the movie they told you the movie takes place in Nazi occupied Poland. Yes the Nazis were German, but they invaded Poland.
@@cliffwheeler7357 like a lot of people they may fear history because it was taught to them wrong. They seem like smart, compassionate people who I would enjoy conversing with - they just didn't know history that well.
I agree, he deserved it. But it doesn't surprise me, he didn't get it based on who he was portraying. Goeth was even more savage in real life than the way he was portrayed in the film. My guess is Spielberg had to draw the line so as not to turn the audience away.
Removing any sugar coating? Uhhhh.......not quite. The people, places & events portrayed here were MUCH worse. It was intentionally toned down in order to make it actually watchable. Amon Goeth, for example, was even more monstrous than portrayed here.
Yes. They took it easy. No reference to medical experimentation and vivisection. Nothing of the camp brothels, staffed by Jewish women. Officers' brothels with the prettiest. Enlisted brothels. Even prisoner brothels because there was a hierarchy among prisoners, according to their uses, and it was a reward for those who cooperated. And other brothels staffed with emasculated boys.
A lot of sugarcoating. If it wasn't the case, the average person's(men and women) weight in the movie would be 30kg(70lb) That would be horrendous for viewers.
@@BintyMcFrazzlesour education system, particularly history, is broken. They won't be up front and fully honest with us about anything, in our own history or world history. I'm my experience, high school education about the Holocaust pretty much lasted a day or two and left it at "Hitler blamed the Jews for all of Germany's problems and wanted to wipe them all out in concentration camps." I was never taught about the difference between labor camps and death camps, about the horrific medical experiments, and many people I know think that the 6 million Jews killed was the extent of the genocide (they don't realize there were 4 million other people killed for other reasons). But what do you expect from a country that won't even be up front and honest about our OWN history of slavery and indigenous genocide? It's sickening, honestly
Not necessarily. Im sure it happned - dont get me wrong. But golden teeth were valuables that a lot of people back then didnt want to get burried with if their families could use the gold. Ofc they would have taken them with them when they were evicted. I inherited a box of gold teeth from my ancestors myself, those are from my great great grand parents and relatives befor them. Im sure you would have found gold teeth in the valuables of many people back then.
They actually had to tone down Amon Goeth character as he was truly much more monstrous than dipicted in this. He even disgusted other nazis . Ralph Fiennes who played Goeth played him so well it caused panic attacks in some of the Schindler Jews on set so Ralph Fiennes took time to comfort them in between takes. His performance and mannerisms are so much like him when you watch footage of Goeth and Fiennes iike a mirror image of him its very freaky how well he played him. I dont know if anyone told you that this movie was made by speilberg as his final exan to graduate from film school after a 30 year hiatus ( as off making blockbuster movies) . His professor gave him an A minus for this masterpiece..
You guys should watch The Pianist (2002) directed by Roman Polanski. He was a Jewish boy when the Nazis invaded Poland, so he had first-hand experience of what it was like to live through this horror. So he incorporated what he did to survive into the film. It won several awards including a couple Oscars.
The term “ghetto” was first used in the 1500’s to designate the areas within Venice, Italy where Jewish families had to live. The word may be from various sources-Hebrew, Yiddish, Latin, Italian, or French.
Yes, Ghetto Nuevo and Ghetto Vecchio are two areas within the city-state of Venice, which is composed of 118 small islands. Bridges (there are about 400 bridges within Venice) connect to the rest of the city. Long ago, the bridges were only open during daylight. Many different Jewish ethnicities had homes and businesses within there - Italian, German, Spanish were a few. Today there are still important functioning schools, synagogues, museums and shops, and visitors can arrange for tours. @@GN-jn1ty
55:58 Stern's body language in just this one scene: the startle from the gunshot, his arms going limp as he saw the senseless killing offscreen, and then solemnly moving forward and keeping his eyes ahead as the body comes into frame. That's how you tell a story with no words
It's not actually a documentary; it's a fictionalized account of real events based on the stories of real people. It's set in Poland, not Germany. Thomas Keneally wrote the book, which was called "Schindler's Ark," based on stories heard from survivors, but he wrote it as a novel. The screenplay is closer to reality, but Spielberg actually had to tone down the atrocities of Amon Goeth and the Nazis, because he was afraid the movie would become completely unwatchable. Some of the real survivors worked as consultants on set; when the real Mila Pfefferberg saw Ralph Fiennes dressed as Goeth, she started shaking violently. Spielberg took no salary and no cut from the profits from this movie. Not an excuse, but a partial explanation for some of what the Nazis did, and why the German people put up with it - nearly 80% of the German population and 100% of the German military were addicted to crystal meth - it was put in soldiers' mess kits. Hitler himself was so addicted to drugs (several different ones) that he couldn't get out of bed in the morning unless and until his personal physician shot cocaine directly into his veins. They weren't all psychopaths or sociopaths, but they WERE all drug-addled and judgment impaired, as well as poisoned/brain-washed by ideology/propaganda. Euros didn't exist in 1943. A thaler was a Polish coin. Germany used Reichsmarks. When Schindler was talking with the black market guys in the church, he wasn't looking for product to barter. He was legitimately trying to buy a quality shirt. He wanted to look affluent, and while he had some cash, he didn't actually have a lot of money, which is why he needed the Jewish investors' money. They say, "Fair would be a percentage in the company," but they literally could not own companies. Their cash was worthless in their hands, because they could not legally use it. They might as well give it to Schindler, who could. Then he gave them the product made by the company he used their money to buy to pay them back, and they can use the products as something to barter with for things they actually need (at least for awhile; once the work camp was opened, they couldn't any more). When the Jews were entering the ghetto, they weren't walking without a destination - they had assigned living spaces that they had to move to, after being pushed out of their homes. Auschwitz was operating by that point in time, if you didn't get a Blauschien, you were sent to the death camp. Their definition of an "essential worker" is literally the opposite of the way the term was used in the US during the COVID pandemic. There, it was used to denote people who could work and therefore were not sent off to be killed. Here, it was used to denote people who were working in jobs that were so essential that they had to risk their health to keep the country going. Please do not confuse the two! The ghetto was an intermediary stop-gap while they built the Krakow work camp, the Krakow work camp was a stop-gap to get work out of the Jews until room could be made to move them to Auschwitz; even at Auschwitz, people worked until they couldn't - often literally until they dropped. Schindler tells Stern that he's a German, but he's actually from Czechoslovakia; the excuse Hitler gave for invading Czechoslovakia was that many "ethnic Germans" (like Schindler) lived there, but there's no such thing as an "ethnic German" = German isn't an ethnicity, just a nationality. Similarly, Jewish isn't a racial characteristic; Judaism is a religion. Cognac is pronounced "cone-yack". Goeth is pronounced "Gert." At the start, Schindler was just focused on being successful. Stern was the one trying to save people. Only later did Schindler come around to the view that what the Nazis were doing was wrong, regardless of whether or not it impacted him and his business. He is *very* self-entitled, as demonstrated in his conversation with his wife when she came to visit him. He fully intended to be a war profiteer. When the woman comes and asks Schindler to save her parents, he confronts Stern about the danger, but by then he already knows it's a horrible situation. She might be pretending to be German, or Polish, or just not Jewish, it's not clear. The train that Stern was in, you said they were being treated like animals, but it's actually worse. People were so packed into the cars they couldn't sit; if their legs gave out, they couldn't fall. The cars are literally called "cattle cars" but if the railroad was actually moving cattle, they'd only put 6 animals per car at most. The little girl in the red coat is in red because Schindler is focused on her and so are we - her coat turns grey after she hides because he can no longer see her, so it's back to black and white. Her jacket is red again at the end so you know that he sees her in the cart and recognizes her. I think you really overthought that one! LOL Goeth didn't so much realize that Schindler was manipulating him, as that he couldn't pardon himself. Unable to pardon himself, he decided not to pardon anyone else, either. He was very conflicted about Helen, yes. He wanted to, but couldn't, love her. He was a true psychopath. In the real Auschwitz, the women's hair would have been completely shaved to a bald scalp. In addition to being terrified of disease-carrying lice being able to infest the camp and get on the guards by association, the Nazis used the hair to make yarn for socks for their navy. They also would have been tattooed with their number on their forearm, it wouldn't have just been on their star pinned to their clothes. One thing they didn't show was that in Auschwitz by the time the Schindler women were sent there they were so far behind on burning corpses that the camp guards were stacking them around buildings as insulation against the cold. The camp started out with one crematorium oven for burning bodies to ash, but they added several gas chambers, and people were dying from illness and starvation as well, so they had to add six more ovens, but those were blown up in the last few months of the war, and may have already been blown up before the women arrived at the camp in reality. At any rate, right up until the end of the war, there were bodies almost everywhere, and there would have certainly been corpses stacked up around the buildings the women saw/were in. Corpses were also skinned and the fat was rendered into soap. The skin was used to make lamp shades; for a while during the war, it was considered extremely fashionable in Berlin to have a lamp with such a shade, better if you got one that had the tattooed number from the forearm. The rest is what got burned. You can see an historic picture of stacked bodies behind the oven in the Birkenau camp here: collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1070095 - it was the same in Auschwitz. Schindler and his wife were Catholic. That was a Catholic church that he found her in, not a synagogue. He didn't build a synagogue for the Jewish workers, he just allowed the rabbi to use his office on Friday evenings and Saturday mornings for services. Schindler saved more Jews from the death camps than literally anyone else. The movie says he saved 1100 people, but it was actually just over 1200. The number of descendants of the Schindler Jews now is somewhere above 8,500. (Sir Nicholas Winston is next, with 669 Jewish children that he was able to save by getting them out of Germany and German-occupied countries.) The movie notes that there were fewer than 4,000 Jewish people in Poland at the time of filming; it has now increased to somewhere between 10,000-20,000. Many people in Poland were raised as Christians because their grandparents or parents survived the war by passing as Christians or getting married to Christians (converting on their own wasn't enough) and didn't know or didn't account for themselves as Jewish or being descended from Jewish families, until the last few years. As more people find out, the Jewish community in Poland is welcoming them into their lives. Don't be ashamed of the tears. If you don't tear up at some point watching this movie, you're not human. You talked about the Japanese survivors of the nuclear bombs, but didn't mention the American citizens of Japanese descent who were put into internment camps here in the US during WWII. We were fighting against Germany and Italy at the same time, but didn't put German-Americans or Italian-Americans in camps. It was a clearly racist move.
I liked your answer a lot. One remark though, there is at least one man who saved more Jews than Schindler, and probably there are others as well. Not that it's a competition, but his story is not as well known since he doesn't have such a great movie in his honour. Yad Vashem recognized him as well as Righteous among nations. His name was Ángel Sanz Briz, he was a young spanish diplomat working in Budapest in 1944. Spain was a neutral country during WWII but Franco's regime was in good relation with Hitler's Germany. So a spanish passport could save you from death if you were a jew in Hungary. Sanz Briz found a loop hole in an old spanish law (which was actually expired, but Nazis didn't know that) to give spanish citizenship to descendants of sephardic Jews dating back to the expulsion of jews from Spain in 1492. He was given permission to give this citizenship to 200 people, but twisting his orders he made each document valid for a whole family. And then he started giving letters to each document: 1a, 1b, 1c...so that the number didn't reach 200. In total he saved 5200 hungarian jews out of whom only 200 were sepharadic jews. He also used his own money to lodge, protect and feed these people in houses he rented right beside the spanish embassy. Even when he had to flee the country to avoid being killed by the soviet troops he managed to protect these jew families with the hungarian people working at the embassy. He couldn't accept the Righteous among the Nations medal in 1966 because Franco didn't allowed him to, he continued being a diplomat. Eventually in 1989 at the israeli embassy in Spain his widow could at last receive the honors from Yad Vashem and receive the medal on behalf of his late husband.
@@asdzt123 Consul Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a portuguese who was a consul in France, did somethign similar. He went against the orders of his government, and issued visas to people fleeing nazi germany. In the end, he gave around 30.000 visas, including about 10.000 visas to jews.
Omg, as a historian, a lot of information you wrote is absolute bullshit. Especially the soap and lampshade thing AGAIN. as for this 'Schindler saved more Jews from the death camps than literally anyone else' Irena Sendler saved 2,500.
I had a very intimate relationship with my grandma. Then when I was about 12 years old, in Germany, I started to be educated on it. And at some point you start asking questions. (How can a person you love so much, is so dear to you was ok with something like that? Mental dissonance) So I asked my grandmother: How could this happen? How could you/ we the people let this happen? And she answered: it didn't happen overnight. It took years. We were busy with our lives. We heard rumours. Neighbors disappeared. Maybe it was also the way, we were brought up. You din't contradict superiors. Maybe I just didn't have the strength/courage. Because, when you live in a dictatorial country you subconsciously know, what will happen to you as well, when you step out of line. They tell you. They show it to you by arresting a neighbor. This will also happen to you. Which at some point perked the question to me: "What would you have done?" I used to be quite quick to answer it, but as I get older, with having kids, responsibilities, still learning about those 12 years of horror, I'm honest to say, I don’t know. I try not to judge too fast or do it careful. Watching this movie, I always feel deeply ashamed. I mean how can you not be ashamed? History here is being taught quite differently. The focus on historical events (more than 2000 years) has a more down to earth/ realistic sense. Heroic pictures are not part of it.
As an American, I'm ashamed that the US government turned away a ship full of 900 Jewish refugees during that time. They were sent back to Europe where most of not all were captured by the Germans.😢
This is the lesson. And why we all need to remember so that we stay aware as we live our lives today. It happens little by little. A small freedom taken away in the name of safety until you are herded away
The Schindler Juden at the end always gets to me. Generations were murdered, but Oskar Schindler saved MANY generations. This darkest period of humankind must always be remembered. Zei gezunt.
When Schindler was arguing about his factory being a "haven" it wasn't about reputation. To harbor a Jew was punished by death and often your family's lives as well.
My husband said liams acting wasnt believable in that part. He still cried though. 🙄 makes no sense. Hes the ONLY ONE who had ever said that about liams acting in this movie. I lost some respect for him after that.
Actually, what the person was, removing from the side of the door was a mazuzah , a little container that holds a rolled up, scroll with a verse from the Torah
It is interesting to have such a detailed review of thoughts from the movie. I like the discussion. Further thoughts in the future sounds like a cool idea. Made it to the end. Thank you for your efforts.
Germany didn’t begin using the Euro until 2002. During the 1940’s, the basic amount was the Reichsmark and after the war was named the Deutsche Mark. A taler was a name for an ancient Germanic silver coin.
Yeah, that was funny. Ancient history to the young is 15-20 years back. I was waiting for them the say "Why didn't he just text the train station to have them reroute the train back to Schindler's location."
I am not surprised about their ignorance, it's the fault of the US school system. The average US american got absolutely no clue about history, geography or anything what's happening outside their bubble. It's frustrating!
This is going all the way to Hebrew people commanded by God to mark their doors so he could Passover their houses... In Jewish religion the Mezuza is a symble of God's protection of our homes.
Don’t forget: this IS real History and Goeth was actually so much worse that you couldn’t play it like that. Spielberg said: no one would have believed that and thought he would dramatize it for the film
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.
I’ve seen dozens of Schindler’s List reactions and this girl absolutely obliterated the record for “longest time until first cry.” I don’t know whether to be impressed or concerned.
@@LemonJuice516 If someone is “concerned about other people” they need to “seek therapy”? I hate to break it to you, but if you are NOT concerned about other people, you are a sociopath.
about 35:00 - they're liquidating the ghettos, moving them out to concentration camps. A ghetto was a place where Jews were restricted to live. It came to mean a place where people of one cultural group were forced to live. It's not about how much money you had; it was about race and ethnicity.
When I lived in New York, our neighbors were survivors. They would speak to my wife and I about the horrors they experienced. They did say that this movie came close to the reality. It is extremely difficult to watch. But it is incumbent upon us to say never again and to always remember. We are tasked with preventing another holocaust. Julie/Jessica
Agree im 62, i learnt about this age 12, in the uk where I am from my dad let me watch it on a tv award winning documentary on ITV called World at War 1973. These days they just don't seem to know till they see these films.
@@gemini802from UK too. Aged 36. Obv we covered holocaust in school and knew it was horrendous but not really in all that much detail or understanding. Though I always felt a little more understanding than my peers as I'm Spanish 'gitano' (literally gypsy, but part Roma) and so was hyper aware of being a foreigner that the country could just randomly turn against. But as an adult I really dove into teaching myself more about it. WW2 documentaries and the real world footage of the liberation of the camps. That's a real eye opener that everyone should watch! It's horrible. It's really hard to watch. But they actually lived through it and I feel like you owe it to them to put yourself through that to properly understand
You asked about the dance in the nightclub scene where first we meet Schindler. The dance is the tango. The musical piece is called Por una cabeza. Interestingly, it's the same piece used in the famous Al Pacino tango scene in "Scent of a Woman" -- a movie which happened to come out the same year as "Schindler's List"
Schindler was a businessman a bombastic personality. German Jews lived in Germany lived and worked and had businesses with racism mixed in. Then the storm of horror took over. Schindler began to be affected by what he was seeing and he wanted to do something about it.
Naja. Nicht jeder kann so wie ihr mit allem Wissen der Welt geboren sein. Solche Aussagen wie eure erinnern mich doch sehr an die "Herrenrasse". Weiß alles, kann alles, muss nichts lernen, arrogant wie Hund.
@@geneticjen9312 People like you are seriously need to stfu sometimes. I’m just being real. If you’re in a first world country and don’t know about these kinds of things that are very basic and well known, you need to be called out. Stop making excuses and saying “it’s ok” “she’s fine” foh with that bs
"The girl was portrayed by Oliwia Dąbrowska, three years old at the time of filming. Spielberg asked Dąbrowska not to watch the film until she was eighteen, but she watched it when she was eleven, and says she was "horrified".[60] Upon seeing the film again as an adult, she was proud of the role she played." - got this from the wiki. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler%27s_List
The little girl in the red coat is Polish and she is in her 30s today. In 2022 she was volunteering at the Poland-Ukraine border to help Ukrainian war refugees.
I appreciate your reactions. There is an older film which was released in 1961. It is also in black and white and it is a fictionalized story based on the book by Abby Mann called "Judgment at Nuremberg". If you can ever locate it, it is worth a watch. It is primarily a court drama about the Nuremberg trials involving Nazi judges during the Third Reich. The big question of the movie was who was responsible for the Holocaust. There is also a back story in the film about an American judge from Maine who is tasked to be the lead judge during the trial who tries to understand how an intelligent cultured people like the Germans could be seduced into such a dark place to allow such things to happen. Great acting all around and great monologues as well. It does show some real and difficult scenes from the camps in one part of the film although you tend to see the aftermath of the violence rather than the immediate acts as in "Schindler's List". For many Americans, it was the first time a large number actually saw footage of what really happened in the camps and the fact that the film was released in 1961, only 12 years after the Nuremberg trials, means it was still fresh in many minds.
Believe it or not Liam Neeson was a relatively unknown actor at the time of this across the Atlantic as he worked mainly in irish tv, movies and films.
All the way from Israel, I send my gratitude to you both for taking the time to watch and learn a little more about our history. 🇮🇱❤️✌️ Danka was my pediatrician as a child , I am 39 years old, after Schindler died. she changed her last name to Schindler. To me she will always be Dr. Schindler.
@@dggydddy59 unfortunately, I knew many many survivors. My husband’s grandmother was an Auschwitz survivor, our downstairs neighbor was one of the “mengale children”…many survivors fled to Israel after the war, one of our core values is - never forget, never again. We travel to Europe as high school students, it’s a memorial trip, we visit the camps and memorial ceremonies in each one. We can’t, we won’t forget. Never again.
Schindler was an imperfect business man with a good heart. Amon Goeth was a sadist who enjoyed torturing and human suffering. Schindler did what he could in an impossible situation. Amon Goeth was pure evil.
Him letting them celebrate the shabbath was not giving them back their faith (dont think they ever lost it even during those gruesome times) it was humanizing them again as they were not treated even as human beings.
Hey Gabriella and Caleb, I often put myself back in my mind as a child. When we face cruelity and lack of compassion, someone is often there to protect us. -------- I remember hoping someone would protect me if my parents were not around. And an adult would always step up.------- In many parts of Shindler's List we see the fear of facing the hate of your persecutor, without a shield to protect you. This is unthinkable and frightening to the bone.------- What a cruel world this can be.
Excellent reaction, you're exactly right, this is the type of movie that one has to feel - no words can fully convey adequately feelings into words.. But to answer one question at 1:09:05 it's not a synagogue, its a Catholic church (that's how they used to look back in the day), as Schindler walks up to the pew and just before whispering to his wife, we can hear the priest softly chanting in Latin the "Our Father" (Pater Noster).. They were Catholics, both he and his wife (he did the sign of the cross when he asked to do 3 minutes of silence after announcing the end of the war to the workers and notice the cross on his grave stone).. One more interesting thing to notice, earlier in the film when we saw all the guys talking about business inside a house of worship -- it was at a Catholic church too, this is where Jews would go, sit in the back and conduct business in peace -- notice before going to the church, (right infront of a store) one of them (the actor who plays Leopold Pfefferberg), quietly takes off his arm band with the star of david..and in the next scene when we see him again, he's in the church with the others (who aren't wearing the star of david either) doing business in the back (you can also hear the priest chanting softly in the background in Latin here too). Excellent raw reaction from the both of you to such a heavy and heartbreaking movie..
@@cliffwheeler7357then why did you watch it other than to leave hateful comments about the couple who is trying to learn? I can’t help but think that is the only reason you watched
Thank you for bearing witness and for your thoughtful reaction. A note on the grave site at the end - it’s Jewish tradition to place a rock on the tombstone to indicate you were there. More permanent and humble than flowers. Another interesting movie about this era is Life is Beautiful. Amazing story about what a parent will do to protect their child.
the real Goeth was even more psycho than shown in the movie. it's worth looking him up. in 1944 for example, he was thrown out by the nazis because he was going to far even by their standards
Sir Ben Kinsley who played Ishtak Stern played Mahatma Gandhi directed by Richard Attenborough nearly 10 years before this one. Gandhi movie went on to win 8 Oscars including Best Actor (Ben Kingsley), Best Picture and Best Director.
What he removed from the door frame was a mezzuzah. You will see that on the door frames of most Jewish homes, work places and so on. It is a tiny ark. Inside of it is a very small scroll that contains the 5 books of Moses.
The scene in the church with Schindler's wife: that was her, probably Catholic, church. He went to talk to her there when he got back to his home town. She definitely wasn't Jewish. Synagogues are very much like churches - - they can range from tiny to enormous, from humble to outrageous, and may be built in any number of architectural styles from times dating back to the oldest surviving synagogues. Most will have a main room for services, with pews and an altar much like churches. Many will have some form of organ or piano as well. Synagogues have an ark behind the altar. It holds the Torah, which is basically the old testament. It's handwritten on a giant scroll inside an ark which can also be simple or fancy. Many synagogues will also have offices and some classrooms for Hebrew studies and so on. I lived in a very Protestant town as a kid. We joined the only temple there. It was actually a little old Presbyterian church that a congregation had outgrown. The synagogue rented, and eventually purchased it from them.
The businessmen were still thinking about money because at that point their homes, businesses and bank accounts had been stolen from them. They had nothing, and were living in a shtetl (Yiddish word for ghetto) with thousands of other people who had nothing. I guess they felt that they needed money, perhaps to help feed and clothe their friends, family and neighbors. But Schindler was correct, the money at that time for them would have been useless.
The train cars are 40 & 8 cars. Comfortably fitting 40 men or 8 horses. In reality they were often filled with 100-150 people. So full that the dead stayed standing until the car was emptied.
Good, solid reaction overall, to a masterpiece. Too bad you skipped the "this list is absolute good" scene, odd editing choice, since it's one of the most iconic moments of the film.
While this movie always gets to me the one scene of the little boy who hopped in the toilets into the sh*t and is told to get out and then he looks up to the toilet hole in utter fear and shock always gets me the most.
The scene that gets me is the women who were sent to Auschwitz and were put in the showers, they think they are going to be gassed, the lights go out, everyone screams, then the lights come back on and they show the elderly woman shaking in terror, that one gets me all the time.
@@craigwhip That scene wasn't acted, Spielberg told in an interview that once the water started to come down the actresses started to scream in horror since the entire atmosphere put them in that state of unease.
I still think Liam Neeson deserved the best actor Oscar for his performance in this film in 1994. Tom Hanks was good in Philidelphia, but an Oscar winning performance it was not.
I have been in 3 Concentration Camps on School Field Trips. Never have places spread such a gloomy, depressive, sad and hopeless mood for me. Believe me, this movie is not sugarcoating at all. In reality, it's toned down. This is tame. They completely dehumanized the Jews and treated them in unbelievable, gruesome and disgusting ways no one ever wants to encounter.
"I could have got one more Person and i didnt" Schindler believed that all he was doing was giving people a reprieve from death, not a pardon. He believed that every one of his workers would eventually be killed and all he was doing was delaying the inevitable. And in that, he was "buying" them time to live. It was only when the war ended that the prospect of actually saving them became real in his mind, and thats when he realized that all the people had been granting a reprieve to tould now live long lives in peace. And with that, he realized that all the people who could have saved had been just a little more stubborn and had just a little more hope. Schindler was a good man faced with extremely difficult decisions everyday. Even he knew that if he tried to outright save everyone, the nazis would shut him down and theyd all be thrown into the camps. But he felt sorrow because every time he slumped and gave just a little , another person died, and he felt the weight of that kind of reality all at once at that scene. The feeling that so many people were alive because he had been strong, and so many people who had died because he wasnt strong enaugh to save them too.
20:16 He's not removing the door-hinge - It's called a "Mezuza", every Jewish house has them on the side of the doors.. It's a cylinder with a sacred prayer written on a scroll inside it. Thanks for your reaction!
In your comments after the movie, I hope you weren’t comparing the atomic bombs dropped on Japan to the Holocaust. They couldn’t be more dissimilar. We dropped those bombs to END the war, and as soon as they finally surrendered, we stopped dropping bombs. The Holocaust would have kept on going until the Germans ran out of Jews and others to kill.
We did, but it is important to remember those innocent people who were ultimately sacrificed to end the war. It is not a virtuous thing. Certainly not the holocaust, but we cannot paint it as something good
@@Luthwen1301 Topic goes over her head? She's listening, she's engaging, she's commenting, she's reacting. She's clearly taken it in and understood the film. What topic doesn't she get?
@@geneticjen9312she thought Schindler's wife was Jewish... that's enough to assume she either wasn't paying attention or just has really bad listening and critical thinking skills. And that's all I'm going to say about this. Watching their daft reaction really made me angry at how utterly uninformed people can be. She thought they had the Euro during WW2 ffs!
@@Luthwen1301I think you and some other commenters are incredibly harsh on this couple in your judgment. Not everyone has the privilege or ability to learn history at the level you are expecting of them. It also comes across as elitist. They are clearly interested in learning and making themselves vulnerable to you and everyone watching this and are willing to accept feedback. I think it’s disturbing that you are like this. This is coming from the daughter of a published WW2 historian, teacher, and someone of Jewish heritage.
@@hannahbeanies8855 and I think it's disturbing to not only know absolutely nothing about the Holocaust but then also refuse to listen and pay attention during the movie on such an important topic. And this is coming from a German Jew, so don't talk to me about being elitist. They decided to post this on the internet, so they have to take the criticism that comes with doing so.
What you said in the beginning about people first time seeing what happened may be true for the USA, but here in Europe almost everyone got this taught in school, from the 50's on, with very graphical photos and stuff. There are older movies about this topic that are not less shocking, but most of them were not shown in theatres in the US or were highly sesored. Because at the time there were BS policies in place what movies should be shown. For example had the good guys always to win at the end, no blood or dead bodies shown and stuff like that, which is on a topic like this, nearly impossible.
I remember watching a movie, a more "recent" one at school, our Italian teacher asked us if things like this could happen again, we answered "of course no".. the we watched a movie were a teacher make his students understand that it could happen easily and it shocked us... the Italian name was "la onda" I couldn't remember the English title but, things like this are happening, everywhere.. there is people from different countries, with different beliefs and skin color... it's happening in a modern version...
"it's just the poor part of town" or "oh look, this family is Jewish"... No shit, Sherlock. That was the point of the Ghetto, to have all the Jews in one place. It was literally explained in writing on the screen earlier in the movie...
@@hannahbeanies8855 They shouldn't upload video, or ppl will watch it and after 2 minutes realize that they are sooo damn ignorants. We got the right to write a comment and that's what they deserve. Of course u have been payed or something to take their side, or u r the owner of the channel with another account, otherwise it can't be explained.
It did. I was 11 and saw it with my dad and my grandma. We all cried the whole way through and left in silence. I remember dad holding my grandma the whole time because she was just sobbing. We're Jewish and I met survivors with tattoos on their wrists in our congregation when I was little as well. I've only seen it that one time and I never forgot it.
15:23 Thaler is a silver coin that was worth 3 Reichsmarks. The Reichsmark, in turn, is the currency in Germany between 1924 and 1948. Reichsmark is also a so-called gold core currency. The €URO was first introduced in January 2002.
The dance at the beginning was of course a tango. "Taler" used to be a currency, and the name "Dollar" is derived from it. You need to understand that Schindler had to hide what he was actually doing, the Nazis would have killed him otherwise, and he would have saved nobody. He wasn't the only one to hire workers from this camp, there was also Julius Madritsch who can be seen in one scene.
ah, american education. even when it's taught, nobody is taught to care enough to remember it. highschool students don't even take our own history seriously, I had to shush at least one kid in my class each year while we watched the videos about 9/11.
You definitely tried to look beyond the lines & dialogue, but you took it too far & over-complicated it that you missed the point & real meaning of why certain things were being said & done.
During the Second World War, in the fight against Nazi Germany, more than 20 million citizens of the USSR died. These are the greatest losses in the entire history of mankind. And it was the soldiers of the USSR who were the first to hoist the Victory Banner over the Reichstag.
Regardless of what the Teachers Union, College Academia , Social Media Platforms, or anyone else thinks about it.... we should be teaching every student in the world the truth concerning of all that took place before, during, and after the entire WW I and WW II eras and the aftermath involving all of those participants involved. Those whom do not study and learn from the annuals of History are doomed to repeat it. We should endeavor to make the world a better place through the education, protection, and investment of our nations future....our young people. It is, for sure, an investment in the future of our nation.
The guy that has to leave his house isn't taking out a hinge from his door: that's a mezuzah, a metal box that includes a piece of the Torah and is inserted into the frame of the door to seek God's recognition and protection. It's an important religious item for traditional Jewish people, one that marks their houses as the house of a believer.
This movie is so powerful , it truly is. But your commentary and raw emotional really got me. Maybe i mentioned before, but this channel deserve so many more subs.
Well, they had some "commentary" like Schindler could be a city in Germany or the Nazis may have Euro as money. They are also clearly confused with the geography and history. For a while they didn't know that the film was set in Poland. They didn't understand the context as well, like when Schindler said "They are mine" (they thought speaking humanely about Jews to Göth - a hardcore Nazi - would be clever). They tried their best in their reaction and but their lack of knowledge is very obvious.
In the book it was told that Amon Goeth had a trial and tried to bring Schindler as a witness, believing he will bail him out. And Schindler came, witnessing as much as he could about Amon's atrocities, ensuring he will be executed.
I'm an Atheist ---- but related very deeply to this movie . The problem is that especially younger people don't always know that there even was this holocaust . So we are condemned to commit the sins of the past through lack of passing on this knowledge sufficiently . And the events of today show us progressing towards the same mistakes !
An incredibly sad movie, but it only scratches the surface. Movies and TV shows that targeted the World War II generation during the 50s and 60s, as well as the hunt for Nazis, the capture and execution of Eichmann, and even the occasional Japanese soldier found still hiding in jungles prompted many conversations where survivors and veterans finally started to share their experiences during the war with their Boomer kids. Spielberg did well to show horror up to the limit of most people, but the complete truth would have left very few people watching to the end.
Incredibly important film that needs to be seen by all, especialy the generations to come, now more importantly, thank- you guys for sharing this film, it needs to be not forgotten.
We, The Destroyers", Samuel writes, "We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers for ever. Nothing that you will do will meet our needs and demands. We will for ever destroy because we need a world of our own, a God-world, which it is not in your nature to build. . . . The wretched fate which scattered us through your midst has thrust this unwelcome role upon us." Maurice Samuel - You Gentiles 1927
I’m an American who was not personally affected by this event, but I certainly do not think you are like this. In fact, I admire the way Germany teaches these events, in which they take responsibility and do not water it down to make themselves look better. I wish my own education system would be a bit more that way. There is blood on every nations hands. Not that it is an excuse, but it is a fact
Northern Germany used a Taler or Thaler (meaning "valley money") as a unit of money from 1690 to 1873 when they switched to the gold Deutschmark. [The "Euro" you mentioned is a very recent invention, created by the E.U. which was an outgrowth of the European Common Market. That's all post-WWII.] There were earlier kinds of Thalers, going back to the days of the Holy Roman Empire. Also, the "Dollar" (a term used in the U.S., Canada, Australia etc.) is a corruption of the term "Thaler." So, "Thaler" could very well show up in old German drinking songs.
And my Grandpa still said "here's a Taler for you" when handing us money in the 90s. Colloquially the term was still used, especially by older generations
37:10 Ghetto is an Italian word. early 17th century: perhaps from Italian getto ‘foundry’ (because the first ghetto was established in 1516 on the site of a foundry in Venice), or from Italian borghetto, diminutive of borgo ‘borough’.
38:25 "She's not coming? Damn" She didn't come with him, and he kissed her as he was afraid they would never meet again. But in the end, Mila Pfefferberg also survived the ghetto, and they were reunited in Schindler's factory. They both survived the war, and were seen in the ending scene where they place stones on Schindler's grave (Leopold Poldek Pfefferberg and Mila Pfefferberg)
My Father saw this on TV back in the day on PBS TV for the full four hours. He wasn't ready for it. He saw Escape From Sobibor, Holocaust but this was beyond amazing for him.
This had 12 oscar nominations. It won 7 for best picture, best director for Steven Spielberg, best adapted screenplay, original music, cinematography, editing, and production design, and it was also up for best actor for Liam Neeson, best supporting actor for Ralph Fiennes, makeup, costume design, and sound mixing.
this movie messed me up quite bad. I can’t even watch any more war films because of how badly this movie affected me. Such an amazing film nonetheless and one of the greatest movies of all time
@@mugiwara7347 I tried watching the pianist a week after finishing this movie. I was so emotionally affected by Schindlers List I couldn’t even gather the courage to finish it, but I’m sure that the pianist is an absolutely heartbreaking movie to watch.
My uncle was involved in liberating a concentration camp in germany. He would never talk about it other than to say the troops gave the nazi soldiers in the camps a taste of what they dished out. Because they were shocked by the condition of the people ahd what was done, including the mountains of bodies, including kids. The soldiers took it out on the nazis. What he saw there haunted hin for life, along with ehst he saw on omaha beach. I felt he felt he should have died with his buddies. Bc he spent the rest if his life drinking himself to death.
My great-uncle (my mums uncle) was a soilder and was part of the troop that liberated Bergen-Belsen. My great uncle Jimmy contracted TB, which was rife at Belsen, and died soon after. He was just 25.
I wish I knew which concentration camp he libeated but he never said other than it was in Germany. He saw another as well but I think it had already been liberated by the 'commies' as he put it with colorful language. He was not a fan of Russia. again he never said names so not sure which one. There were so many...
Guys, c'mon, in the beginning of the movie they told you the movie takes place in Nazi occupied Poland. Yes the Nazis were German, but they invaded Poland.
@@cliffwheeler7357 like a lot of people they may fear history because it was taught to them wrong. They seem like smart, compassionate people who I would enjoy conversing with - they just didn't know history that well.
Chill bro, god damn be a better person!
It's still unbelievable that Ralph Fiennes didn't win an Oscar for his portrayal of Amon Goeth. He was nominated but didn't win.
I hated him. Capital H! Took me awhile to separate him from this role, he did a great job of being casually evil.
I agree, he deserved it. But it doesn't surprise me, he didn't get it based on who he was portraying.
Goeth was even more savage in real life than the way he was portrayed in the film. My guess is
Spielberg had to draw the line so as not to turn the audience away.
I agrée his performance was terrifyingly brilliant. Although I imagine there were multiple Jews on the board of the Academy at the time.
Wow, you picked a great place to blame that on a Jewish conspiracy.
Yes, he was fantastic as Amon Goeth. He should have got an Oscar for this...
Removing any sugar coating? Uhhhh.......not quite. The people, places & events portrayed here were MUCH worse. It was intentionally toned down in order to make it actually watchable. Amon Goeth, for example, was even more monstrous than portrayed here.
I don't think americans realize how depraved these times were
Just the "medical" experiments would make this movie unwatchable
Yes. They took it easy. No reference to medical experimentation and vivisection. Nothing of the camp brothels, staffed by Jewish women. Officers' brothels with the prettiest. Enlisted brothels. Even prisoner brothels because there was a hierarchy among prisoners, according to their uses, and it was a reward for those who cooperated. And other brothels staffed with emasculated boys.
A lot of sugarcoating.
If it wasn't the case, the average person's(men and women) weight in the movie would be 30kg(70lb)
That would be horrendous for viewers.
@@BintyMcFrazzlesour education system, particularly history, is broken. They won't be up front and fully honest with us about anything, in our own history or world history. I'm my experience, high school education about the Holocaust pretty much lasted a day or two and left it at "Hitler blamed the Jews for all of Germany's problems and wanted to wipe them all out in concentration camps." I was never taught about the difference between labor camps and death camps, about the horrific medical experiments, and many people I know think that the 6 million Jews killed was the extent of the genocide (they don't realize there were 4 million other people killed for other reasons). But what do you expect from a country that won't even be up front and honest about our OWN history of slavery and indigenous genocide? It's sickening, honestly
@@BintyMcFrazzles It didn't happen in America, so it doesn't concern them (sadly).
The teeth weren’t taken after they died. They teeth were ripped from the live PEOPLE boarding those trains!!
Not necessarily. Im sure it happned - dont get me wrong. But golden teeth were valuables that a lot of people back then didnt want to get burried with if their families could use the gold. Ofc they would have taken them with them when they were evicted. I inherited a box of gold teeth from my ancestors myself, those are from my great great grand parents and relatives befor them. Im sure you would have found gold teeth in the valuables of many people back then.
Not always. Many were taken post mortem, or were removed by the person themselves, or were inherited as they are valuable. Do not make assumptions.
@@hannahbeanies8855 wow
Reading comp is hard for you
He beat her due to his attraction to her. He hated himself for his attraction and took it out on her.
Mrs. Schindler wasn't Jewish. She wanted to be addressed by her name as apposed to "Miss" as not to be mistaken for a mistress instead of his wife.
Mais elle est allemand comme Mm Schindler... non non ...😊
A MOVIE THAT SHOULD NOT EVER BE FORGOTTON, IN THIS LIFETIME, OR ANY FUTURE LIFETIME!
They actually had to tone down Amon Goeth character as he was truly much more monstrous than dipicted in this. He even disgusted other nazis . Ralph Fiennes who played Goeth played him so well it caused panic attacks in some of the Schindler Jews on set so Ralph Fiennes took time to comfort them in between takes. His performance and mannerisms are so much like him when you watch footage of Goeth and Fiennes iike a mirror image of him its very freaky how well he played him.
I dont know if anyone told you that this movie was made by speilberg as his final exan to graduate from film school after a 30 year hiatus ( as off making blockbuster movies) . His professor gave him an A minus for this masterpiece..
Goeth was kicked out of the SS because they were disturbed by him. For you to be to crazy for the SS shows how psychotic he was.
You guys should watch The Pianist (2002) directed by Roman Polanski. He was a Jewish boy when the Nazis invaded Poland, so he had first-hand experience of what it was like to live through this horror.
So he incorporated what he did to survive into the film.
It won several awards including a couple Oscars.
Masterpiece.
@@FrancoisDresslerIndeed.
lol like no ones ever heard of the film and cant look it up
He was also a rapist
He is also certified pedo. how nice you can be absolved if you a part of hollywood.
The term “ghetto” was first used in the 1500’s to designate the areas within Venice, Italy where Jewish families had to live. The word may be from various sources-Hebrew, Yiddish, Latin, Italian, or French.
I have read that Ghetto was name of an island an Italian city-state exiled its Jews to - can't remember which one.
Yes, Ghetto Nuevo and Ghetto Vecchio are two areas within the city-state of Venice, which is composed of 118 small islands. Bridges (there are about 400 bridges within Venice) connect to the rest of the city. Long ago, the bridges were only open during daylight. Many different Jewish ethnicities had homes and businesses within there - Italian, German, Spanish were a few. Today there are still important functioning schools, synagogues, museums and shops, and visitors can arrange for tours. @@GN-jn1ty
55:58 Stern's body language in just this one scene: the startle from the gunshot, his arms going limp as he saw the senseless killing offscreen, and then solemnly moving forward and keeping his eyes ahead as the body comes into frame. That's how you tell a story with no words
Ben Kingsley's performance throughout the film is quietly understated, but outstanding.
I always loved Ben Kingsley's acting in that scene. His body language was perfect.
It's not actually a documentary; it's a fictionalized account of real events based on the stories of real people. It's set in Poland, not Germany. Thomas Keneally wrote the book, which was called "Schindler's Ark," based on stories heard from survivors, but he wrote it as a novel. The screenplay is closer to reality, but Spielberg actually had to tone down the atrocities of Amon Goeth and the Nazis, because he was afraid the movie would become completely unwatchable. Some of the real survivors worked as consultants on set; when the real Mila Pfefferberg saw Ralph Fiennes dressed as Goeth, she started shaking violently. Spielberg took no salary and no cut from the profits from this movie.
Not an excuse, but a partial explanation for some of what the Nazis did, and why the German people put up with it - nearly 80% of the German population and 100% of the German military were addicted to crystal meth - it was put in soldiers' mess kits. Hitler himself was so addicted to drugs (several different ones) that he couldn't get out of bed in the morning unless and until his personal physician shot cocaine directly into his veins. They weren't all psychopaths or sociopaths, but they WERE all drug-addled and judgment impaired, as well as poisoned/brain-washed by ideology/propaganda.
Euros didn't exist in 1943. A thaler was a Polish coin. Germany used Reichsmarks.
When Schindler was talking with the black market guys in the church, he wasn't looking for product to barter. He was legitimately trying to buy a quality shirt. He wanted to look affluent, and while he had some cash, he didn't actually have a lot of money, which is why he needed the Jewish investors' money. They say, "Fair would be a percentage in the company," but they literally could not own companies. Their cash was worthless in their hands, because they could not legally use it. They might as well give it to Schindler, who could. Then he gave them the product made by the company he used their money to buy to pay them back, and they can use the products as something to barter with for things they actually need (at least for awhile; once the work camp was opened, they couldn't any more).
When the Jews were entering the ghetto, they weren't walking without a destination - they had assigned living spaces that they had to move to, after being pushed out of their homes. Auschwitz was operating by that point in time, if you didn't get a Blauschien, you were sent to the death camp.
Their definition of an "essential worker" is literally the opposite of the way the term was used in the US during the COVID pandemic. There, it was used to denote people who could work and therefore were not sent off to be killed. Here, it was used to denote people who were working in jobs that were so essential that they had to risk their health to keep the country going. Please do not confuse the two!
The ghetto was an intermediary stop-gap while they built the Krakow work camp, the Krakow work camp was a stop-gap to get work out of the Jews until room could be made to move them to Auschwitz; even at Auschwitz, people worked until they couldn't - often literally until they dropped.
Schindler tells Stern that he's a German, but he's actually from Czechoslovakia; the excuse Hitler gave for invading Czechoslovakia was that many "ethnic Germans" (like Schindler) lived there, but there's no such thing as an "ethnic German" = German isn't an ethnicity, just a nationality. Similarly, Jewish isn't a racial characteristic; Judaism is a religion.
Cognac is pronounced "cone-yack". Goeth is pronounced "Gert."
At the start, Schindler was just focused on being successful. Stern was the one trying to save people. Only later did Schindler come around to the view that what the Nazis were doing was wrong, regardless of whether or not it impacted him and his business. He is *very* self-entitled, as demonstrated in his conversation with his wife when she came to visit him. He fully intended to be a war profiteer. When the woman comes and asks Schindler to save her parents, he confronts Stern about the danger, but by then he already knows it's a horrible situation. She might be pretending to be German, or Polish, or just not Jewish, it's not clear.
The train that Stern was in, you said they were being treated like animals, but it's actually worse. People were so packed into the cars they couldn't sit; if their legs gave out, they couldn't fall. The cars are literally called "cattle cars" but if the railroad was actually moving cattle, they'd only put 6 animals per car at most.
The little girl in the red coat is in red because Schindler is focused on her and so are we - her coat turns grey after she hides because he can no longer see her, so it's back to black and white. Her jacket is red again at the end so you know that he sees her in the cart and recognizes her. I think you really overthought that one! LOL
Goeth didn't so much realize that Schindler was manipulating him, as that he couldn't pardon himself. Unable to pardon himself, he decided not to pardon anyone else, either. He was very conflicted about Helen, yes. He wanted to, but couldn't, love her. He was a true psychopath.
In the real Auschwitz, the women's hair would have been completely shaved to a bald scalp. In addition to being terrified of disease-carrying lice being able to infest the camp and get on the guards by association, the Nazis used the hair to make yarn for socks for their navy. They also would have been tattooed with their number on their forearm, it wouldn't have just been on their star pinned to their clothes. One thing they didn't show was that in Auschwitz by the time the Schindler women were sent there they were so far behind on burning corpses that the camp guards were stacking them around buildings as insulation against the cold. The camp started out with one crematorium oven for burning bodies to ash, but they added several gas chambers, and people were dying from illness and starvation as well, so they had to add six more ovens, but those were blown up in the last few months of the war, and may have already been blown up before the women arrived at the camp in reality. At any rate, right up until the end of the war, there were bodies almost everywhere, and there would have certainly been corpses stacked up around the buildings the women saw/were in. Corpses were also skinned and the fat was rendered into soap. The skin was used to make lamp shades; for a while during the war, it was considered extremely fashionable in Berlin to have a lamp with such a shade, better if you got one that had the tattooed number from the forearm. The rest is what got burned. You can see an historic picture of stacked bodies behind the oven in the Birkenau camp here: collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1070095 - it was the same in Auschwitz.
Schindler and his wife were Catholic. That was a Catholic church that he found her in, not a synagogue.
He didn't build a synagogue for the Jewish workers, he just allowed the rabbi to use his office on Friday evenings and Saturday mornings for services.
Schindler saved more Jews from the death camps than literally anyone else. The movie says he saved 1100 people, but it was actually just over 1200. The number of descendants of the Schindler Jews now is somewhere above 8,500. (Sir Nicholas Winston is next, with 669 Jewish children that he was able to save by getting them out of Germany and German-occupied countries.) The movie notes that there were fewer than 4,000 Jewish people in Poland at the time of filming; it has now increased to somewhere between 10,000-20,000. Many people in Poland were raised as Christians because their grandparents or parents survived the war by passing as Christians or getting married to Christians (converting on their own wasn't enough) and didn't know or didn't account for themselves as Jewish or being descended from Jewish families, until the last few years. As more people find out, the Jewish community in Poland is welcoming them into their lives.
Don't be ashamed of the tears. If you don't tear up at some point watching this movie, you're not human.
You talked about the Japanese survivors of the nuclear bombs, but didn't mention the American citizens of Japanese descent who were put into internment camps here in the US during WWII. We were fighting against Germany and Italy at the same time, but didn't put German-Americans or Italian-Americans in camps. It was a clearly racist move.
I liked your answer a lot.
One remark though, there is at least one man who saved more Jews than Schindler, and probably there are others as well. Not that it's a competition, but his story is not as well known since he doesn't have such a great movie in his honour.
Yad Vashem recognized him as well as Righteous among nations.
His name was Ángel Sanz Briz, he was a young spanish diplomat working in Budapest in 1944.
Spain was a neutral country during WWII but Franco's regime was in good relation with Hitler's Germany. So a spanish passport could save you from death if you were a jew in Hungary.
Sanz Briz found a loop hole in an old spanish law (which was actually expired, but Nazis didn't know that) to give spanish citizenship to descendants of sephardic Jews dating back to the expulsion of jews from Spain in 1492.
He was given permission to give this citizenship to 200 people, but twisting his orders he made each document valid for a whole family. And then he started giving letters to each document: 1a, 1b, 1c...so that the number didn't reach 200.
In total he saved 5200 hungarian jews out of whom only 200 were sepharadic jews. He also used his own money to lodge, protect and feed these people in houses he rented right beside the spanish embassy.
Even when he had to flee the country to avoid being killed by the soviet troops he managed to protect these jew families with the hungarian people working at the embassy.
He couldn't accept the Righteous among the Nations medal in 1966 because Franco didn't allowed him to, he continued being a diplomat. Eventually in 1989 at the israeli embassy in Spain his widow could at last receive the honors from Yad Vashem and receive the medal on behalf of his late husband.
@@asdzt123 Consul Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a portuguese who was a consul in France, did somethign similar. He went against the orders of his government, and issued visas to people fleeing nazi germany.
In the end, he gave around 30.000 visas, including about 10.000 visas to jews.
Omg, as a historian, a lot of information you wrote is absolute bullshit.
Especially the soap and lampshade thing AGAIN.
as for this 'Schindler saved more Jews from the death camps than literally anyone else' Irena Sendler saved 2,500.
And to think some people deby the holocaust
I had a very intimate relationship with my grandma. Then when I was about 12 years old, in Germany, I started to be educated on it. And at some point you start asking questions. (How can a person you love so much, is so dear to you was ok with something like that? Mental dissonance) So I asked my grandmother: How could this happen? How could you/ we the people let this happen?
And she answered: it didn't happen overnight. It took years.
We were busy with our lives. We heard rumours. Neighbors disappeared. Maybe it was also the way, we were brought up. You din't contradict superiors. Maybe I just didn't have the strength/courage. Because, when you live in a dictatorial country you subconsciously know, what will happen to you as well, when you step out of line. They tell you. They show it to you by arresting a neighbor. This will also happen to you.
Which at some point perked the question to me: "What would you have done?"
I used to be quite quick to answer it, but as I get older, with having kids, responsibilities, still learning about those 12 years of horror, I'm honest to say, I don’t know. I try not to judge too fast or do it careful.
Watching this movie, I always feel deeply ashamed. I mean how can you not be ashamed?
History here is being taught quite differently. The focus on historical events (more than 2000 years) has a more down to earth/ realistic sense. Heroic pictures are not part of it.
As an American, I'm ashamed that the US government turned away a ship full of 900 Jewish refugees during that time. They were sent back to Europe where most of not all were captured by the Germans.😢
You should listen to painfontainment by dan carlin it will answers many of your question. Its profound.
This is the lesson. And why we all need to remember so that we stay aware as we live our lives today. It happens little by little. A small freedom taken away in the name of safety until you are herded away
The Schindler Juden at the end always gets to me. Generations were murdered, but Oskar Schindler saved MANY generations. This darkest period of humankind must always be remembered. Zei gezunt.
When Schindler was arguing about his factory being a "haven" it wasn't about reputation. To harbor a Jew was punished by death and often your family's lives as well.
If there are no tears in your eyes at the Schindler leaving scene then you are not a human being... This scene breaks everyone...
for me it's the scene where Schindler kisses the girl who as working for Amon Goth (I think her name is Helen)
@@d_pratik1bravo
My husband said liams acting wasnt believable in that part. He still cried though. 🙄 makes no sense. Hes the ONLY ONE who had ever said that about liams acting in this movie. I lost some respect for him after that.
Yes, a Pole is from Poland.
Actually, what the person was, removing from the side of the door was a mazuzah , a little container that holds a rolled up, scroll with a verse from the Torah
The Grandaughter of Amon Göth is black. Her name is Jennifer teege and she wrote the book 'Amon, my grandfather would have shoot me'
It is interesting to have such a detailed review of thoughts from the movie. I like the discussion. Further thoughts in the future sounds like a cool idea. Made it to the end. Thank you for your efforts.
Germany didn’t begin using the Euro until 2002. During the 1940’s, the basic amount was the Reichsmark and after the war was named the Deutsche Mark. A taler was a name for an ancient Germanic silver coin.
Yeah, that was funny. Ancient history to the young is 15-20 years back. I was waiting for them the say "Why didn't he just text the train station to have them reroute the train back to Schindler's location."
@@rollotomassi6232 i dont know why they were so worried about going to Aushwitz anyway, its just a museum. Theyre not THAT boring.
@@cliffwheeler7357It's sad. Devastating, really. And we can all see the results of this overwhelming ignorance.
I am not surprised about their ignorance, it's the fault of the US school system. The average US american got absolutely no clue about history, geography or anything what's happening outside their bubble. It's frustrating!
The "euro" as a currency was launched in 1999. Germany's currency from 1924-1948 was the Reichsmark.
Germany has been using the Euro since 2002. Before that it was Deutsche Mark (DM) since 1948.
That wasn’t a door chain. It was a mezuzah. It holds a prayer inside.
This is going all the way to Hebrew people commanded by God to mark their doors so he could Passover their houses... In Jewish religion the Mezuza is a symble of God's protection of our homes.
Don’t forget: this IS real History and Goeth was actually so much worse that you couldn’t play it like that. Spielberg said: no one would have believed that and thought he would dramatize it for the film
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.
Probably the only movie ive cried through multiple times. The ring scene at the end always gets me
Soft as hell 😂😂
@@nah3826 what's wrong with being soft?
@@nah3826it’s called compassion and empathy.
@@nah3826If that scene doesn’t get you, you’re not human.
@@maximilianotorro527 right
I’ve seen dozens of Schindler’s List reactions and this girl absolutely obliterated the record for “longest time until first cry.”
I don’t know whether to be impressed or concerned.
could be shock, I cried the first time (and many other times) I saw this movie but my dad didn't and neither did my sister.
I noticed her wipe an eye at 1:10:49... perhaps it was dirt or an eyelash? 🤷♂
I thought much the same!
i dont cry during any movie. . doesnt meant i dont feel emotion. . .its just that the "crying part" never happens
@@LemonJuice516 If someone is “concerned about other people” they need to “seek therapy”? I hate to break it to you, but if you are NOT concerned about other people, you are a sociopath.
about 35:00 - they're liquidating the ghettos, moving them out to concentration camps. A ghetto was a place where Jews were restricted to live. It came to mean a place where people of one cultural group were forced to live. It's not about how much money you had; it was about race and ethnicity.
When I lived in New York, our neighbors were survivors. They would speak to my wife and I about the horrors they experienced. They did say that this movie came close to the reality. It is extremely difficult to watch. But it is incumbent upon us to say never again and to always remember. We are tasked with preventing another holocaust. Julie/Jessica
The word Ghetto was used long before a term for impoverished parts of a city in the U.S.
The ignorance of these two is why its important that this is seen.
Agree im 62, i learnt about this age 12, in the uk where I am from my dad let me watch it on a tv award winning documentary on ITV called World at War 1973. These days they just don't seem to know till they see these films.
@@gemini802from UK too. Aged 36. Obv we covered holocaust in school and knew it was horrendous but not really in all that much detail or understanding. Though I always felt a little more understanding than my peers as I'm Spanish 'gitano' (literally gypsy, but part Roma) and so was hyper aware of being a foreigner that the country could just randomly turn against.
But as an adult I really dove into teaching myself more about it. WW2 documentaries and the real world footage of the liberation of the camps. That's a real eye opener that everyone should watch! It's horrible. It's really hard to watch. But they actually lived through it and I feel like you owe it to them to put yourself through that to properly understand
@@jgreen2015 ive known about it since I was 12, im 62 now, dont lecture me.
@@gemini802 the fuck are you on about?!
@@gemini802 He was not lecturing you.
You asked about the dance in the nightclub scene where first we meet Schindler. The dance is the tango. The musical piece is called Por una cabeza. Interestingly, it's the same piece used in the famous Al Pacino tango scene in "Scent of a Woman" -- a movie which happened to come out the same year as "Schindler's List"
I was born in Kraków. Schindler's factory still stands and is now a museum.
Schindler was a businessman a bombastic personality. German Jews lived in Germany lived and worked and had businesses with racism mixed in. Then the storm of horror took over. Schindler began to be affected by what he was seeing and he wanted to do something about it.
Ugh.
Honestly, the ignorance on the part of the woman made me cringe and throw things.
But I guess that is actually who needs to be reached.
Yes awful to watch her. I knew about this aged 12 in the uk in 1973 through tv documentary. Im now 62.
She was fine. And the man didn't know a lot of basic history from this time. What's your problem?
I agree. She isn't very bright.
Naja. Nicht jeder kann so wie ihr mit allem Wissen der Welt geboren sein. Solche Aussagen wie eure erinnern mich doch sehr an die "Herrenrasse". Weiß alles, kann alles, muss nichts lernen, arrogant wie Hund.
@@geneticjen9312 People like you are seriously need to stfu sometimes. I’m just being real. If you’re in a first world country and don’t know about these kinds of things that are very basic and well known, you need to be called out. Stop making excuses and saying “it’s ok” “she’s fine” foh with that bs
"The girl was portrayed by Oliwia Dąbrowska, three years old at the time of filming. Spielberg asked Dąbrowska not to watch the film until she was eighteen, but she watched it when she was eleven, and says she was "horrified".[60] Upon seeing the film again as an adult, she was proud of the role she played." - got this from the wiki. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler%27s_List
The little girl in the red coat is Polish and she is in her 30s today. In 2022 she was volunteering at the Poland-Ukraine border to help Ukrainian war refugees.
LIFE is the happy ending to this movie. These people SURVIVED.
I appreciate your reactions. There is an older film which was released in 1961. It is also in black and white and it is a fictionalized story based on the book by Abby Mann called "Judgment at Nuremberg". If you can ever locate it, it is worth a watch. It is primarily a court drama about the Nuremberg trials involving Nazi judges during the Third Reich. The big question of the movie was who was responsible for the Holocaust. There is also a back story in the film about an American judge from Maine who is tasked to be the lead judge during the trial who tries to understand how an intelligent cultured people like the Germans could be seduced into such a dark place to allow such things to happen. Great acting all around and great monologues as well. It does show some real and difficult scenes from the camps in one part of the film although you tend to see the aftermath of the violence rather than the immediate acts as in "Schindler's List". For many Americans, it was the first time a large number actually saw footage of what really happened in the camps and the fact that the film was released in 1961, only 12 years after the Nuremberg trials, means it was still fresh in many minds.
Believe it or not Liam Neeson was a relatively unknown actor at the time of this across the Atlantic as he worked mainly in irish tv, movies and films.
All the way from Israel, I send my gratitude to you both for taking the time to watch and learn a little more about our history. 🇮🇱❤️✌️
Danka was my pediatrician as a child , I am 39 years old, after Schindler died. she changed her last name to Schindler. To me she will always be Dr. Schindler.
Wow! That is really incredible to know someone who endured the events of those horrible times.
@@dggydddy59 unfortunately, I knew many many survivors. My husband’s grandmother was an Auschwitz survivor, our downstairs neighbor was one of the “mengale children”…many survivors fled to Israel after the war, one of our core values is - never forget, never again.
We travel to Europe as high school students, it’s a memorial trip, we visit the camps and memorial ceremonies in each one.
We can’t, we won’t forget.
Never again.
@mayevor8588 Oh no, Mengele children, I can't imagine such evil! How awful. Indeed, the world must never forget.
if u want to cry again like this, watch "the pianist" its from the same time
...and a true story !
Schindler was an imperfect business man with a good heart. Amon Goeth was a sadist who enjoyed torturing and human suffering. Schindler did what he could in an impossible situation. Amon Goeth was pure evil.
A film that had to be made and had to be seen. This movie is a warning.
Him letting them celebrate the shabbath was not giving them back their faith (dont think they ever lost it even during those gruesome times) it was humanizing them again as they were not treated even as human beings.
At this stage - I’m not sure there’s any way of making the missus smart enough to take these movies in (in terms of context, history, life, etc) ☹️
Hey Gabriella and Caleb, I often put myself back in my mind as a child. When we face cruelity and lack of compassion, someone is often there to protect us. -------- I remember hoping someone would protect me if my parents were not around. And an adult would always step up.------- In many parts of Shindler's List we see the fear of facing the hate of your persecutor, without a shield to protect you. This is unthinkable and frightening to the bone.------- What a cruel world this can be.
Excellent reaction, you're exactly right, this is the type of movie that one has to feel - no words can fully convey adequately feelings into words.. But to answer one question at 1:09:05 it's not a synagogue, its a Catholic church (that's how they used to look back in the day), as Schindler walks up to the pew and just before whispering to his wife, we can hear the priest softly chanting in Latin the "Our Father" (Pater Noster).. They were Catholics, both he and his wife (he did the sign of the cross when he asked to do 3 minutes of silence after announcing the end of the war to the workers and notice the cross on his grave stone).. One more interesting thing to notice, earlier in the film when we saw all the guys talking about business inside a house of worship -- it was at a Catholic church too, this is where Jews would go, sit in the back and conduct business in peace -- notice before going to the church, (right infront of a store) one of them (the actor who plays Leopold Pfefferberg), quietly takes off his arm band with the star of david..and in the next scene when we see him again, he's in the church with the others (who aren't wearing the star of david either) doing business in the back (you can also hear the priest chanting softly in the background in Latin here too). Excellent raw reaction from the both of you to such a heavy and heartbreaking movie..
@@cliffwheeler7357then why did you watch it other than to leave hateful comments about the couple who is trying to learn? I can’t help but think that is the only reason you watched
Thank you for bearing witness and for your thoughtful reaction.
A note on the grave site at the end - it’s Jewish tradition to place a rock on the tombstone to indicate you were there. More permanent and humble than flowers.
Another interesting movie about this era is Life is Beautiful. Amazing story about what a parent will do to protect their child.
the real Goeth was even more psycho than shown in the movie. it's worth looking him up. in 1944 for example, he was thrown out by the nazis because he was going to far even by their standards
Sir Ben Kinsley who played Ishtak Stern played Mahatma Gandhi directed by Richard Attenborough nearly 10 years before this one. Gandhi movie went on to win 8 Oscars including Best Actor (Ben Kingsley), Best Picture and Best Director.
What he removed from the door frame was a mezzuzah. You will see that on the door frames of most Jewish homes, work places and so on. It is a tiny ark. Inside of it is a very small scroll that contains the 5 books of Moses.
The scene in the church with Schindler's wife: that was her, probably Catholic, church. He went to talk to her there when he got back to his home town. She definitely wasn't Jewish. Synagogues are very much like churches - - they can range from tiny to enormous, from humble to outrageous, and may be built in any number of architectural styles from times dating back to the oldest surviving synagogues. Most will have a main room for services, with pews and an altar much like churches. Many will have some form of organ or piano as well. Synagogues have an ark behind the altar. It holds the Torah, which is basically the old testament. It's handwritten on a giant scroll inside an ark which can also be simple or fancy. Many synagogues will also have offices and some classrooms for Hebrew studies and so on. I lived in a very Protestant town as a kid. We joined the only temple there. It was actually a little old Presbyterian church that a congregation had outgrown. The synagogue rented, and eventually purchased it from them.
The businessmen were still thinking about money because at that point their homes, businesses and bank accounts had been stolen from them. They had nothing, and were living in a shtetl (Yiddish word for ghetto) with thousands of other people who had nothing. I guess they felt that they needed money, perhaps to help feed and clothe their friends, family and neighbors. But Schindler was correct, the money at that time for them would have been useless.
Beautiful reaction and interesting commentary.
The train cars are 40 & 8 cars. Comfortably fitting 40 men or 8 horses. In reality they were often filled with 100-150 people. So full that the dead stayed standing until the car was emptied.
Good, solid reaction overall, to a masterpiece. Too bad you skipped the "this list is absolute good" scene, odd editing choice, since it's one of the most iconic moments of the film.
I AGREE!!!
These are two good kids, they just don't really understand the Holocaust.
"The Boy In The Striped Pajamas" is another powerful film about the Holocaust.
While this movie always gets to me the one scene of the little boy who hopped in the toilets into the sh*t and is told to get out and then he looks up to the toilet hole in utter fear and shock always gets me the most.
The scene that gets me is the women who were sent to Auschwitz and were put in the showers, they think they are going to be gassed, the lights go out, everyone screams, then the lights come back on and they show the elderly woman shaking in terror, that one gets me all the time.
me too utterly heartbreaking
@@craigwhip That scene wasn't acted, Spielberg told in an interview that once the water started to come down the actresses started to scream in horror since the entire atmosphere put them in that state of unease.
Amazing how much you missed and or got wrong
You also had some good observations
I don’t think Liam neeson has any rules now for the quality of films he takes on…
Truth
taken 12 back to Baghdad!
I still think Liam Neeson deserved the best actor Oscar for his performance in this film in 1994. Tom Hanks was good in Philidelphia, but an Oscar winning performance it was not.
After his wife died things changed.
He used work to get over the death of his wife
I have been in 3 Concentration Camps on School Field Trips. Never have places spread such a gloomy, depressive, sad and hopeless mood for me.
Believe me, this movie is not sugarcoating at all. In reality, it's toned down. This is tame.
They completely dehumanized the Jews and treated them in unbelievable, gruesome and disgusting ways no one ever wants to encounter.
Sugarcoating kinda means toning something down from what actually happened.
Everyone can visit every Concentration Camp that still exist. My wife and me visiting all of them 😔
"I could have got one more Person and i didnt"
Schindler believed that all he was doing was giving people a reprieve from death, not a pardon. He believed that every one of his workers would eventually be killed and all he was doing was delaying the inevitable. And in that, he was "buying" them time to live. It was only when the war ended that the prospect of actually saving them became real in his mind, and thats when he realized that all the people had been granting a reprieve to tould now live long lives in peace. And with that, he realized that all the people who could have saved had been just a little more stubborn and had just a little more hope.
Schindler was a good man faced with extremely difficult decisions everyday. Even he knew that if he tried to outright save everyone, the nazis would shut him down and theyd all be thrown into the camps. But he felt sorrow because every time he slumped and gave just a little , another person died, and he felt the weight of that kind of reality all at once at that scene. The feeling that so many people were alive because he had been strong, and so many people who had died because he wasnt strong enaugh to save them too.
20:16 He's not removing the door-hinge - It's called a "Mezuza", every Jewish house has them on the side of the doors.. It's a cylinder with a sacred prayer written on a scroll inside it. Thanks for your reaction!
I remember seeing this in the theatre when it was released. Deeply impactful. I then read the book, which I highly recommend.
מי שהציל נפש אחת כאילו הציל עולם ומלואו
The man who saved a single soul as if he saved the world entire
In your comments after the movie, I hope you weren’t comparing the atomic bombs dropped on Japan to the Holocaust. They couldn’t be more dissimilar. We dropped those bombs to END the war, and as soon as they finally surrendered, we stopped dropping bombs. The Holocaust would have kept on going until the Germans ran out of Jews and others to kill.
We did, but it is important to remember those innocent people who were ultimately sacrificed to end the war. It is not a virtuous thing. Certainly not the holocaust, but we cannot paint it as something good
Seriously, what is she writing down throughout the movie? Notes? She’s missing so much of the details of the movie by not watching the screen!
This irked me as well. The whole topic seems to go right over her head
@@Luthwen1301 Topic goes over her head? She's listening, she's engaging, she's commenting, she's reacting. She's clearly taken it in and understood the film. What topic doesn't she get?
@@geneticjen9312she thought Schindler's wife was Jewish... that's enough to assume she either wasn't paying attention or just has really bad listening and critical thinking skills. And that's all I'm going to say about this. Watching their daft reaction really made me angry at how utterly uninformed people can be. She thought they had the Euro during WW2 ffs!
@@Luthwen1301I think you and some other commenters are incredibly harsh on this couple in your judgment. Not everyone has the privilege or ability to learn history at the level you are expecting of them. It also comes across as elitist. They are clearly interested in learning and making themselves vulnerable to you and everyone watching this and are willing to accept feedback. I think it’s disturbing that you are like this.
This is coming from the daughter of a published WW2 historian, teacher, and someone of Jewish heritage.
@@hannahbeanies8855 and I think it's disturbing to not only know absolutely nothing about the Holocaust but then also refuse to listen and pay attention during the movie on such an important topic. And this is coming from a German Jew, so don't talk to me about being elitist. They decided to post this on the internet, so they have to take the criticism that comes with doing so.
What you said in the beginning about people first time seeing what happened may be true for the USA, but here in Europe almost everyone got this taught in school, from the 50's on, with very graphical photos and stuff. There are older movies about this topic that are not less shocking, but most of them were not shown in theatres in the US or were highly sesored. Because at the time there were BS policies in place what movies should be shown. For example had the good guys always to win at the end, no blood or dead bodies shown and stuff like that, which is on a topic like this, nearly impossible.
I remember watching a movie, a more "recent" one at school, our Italian teacher asked us if things like this could happen again, we answered "of course no".. the we watched a movie were a teacher make his students understand that it could happen easily and it shocked us... the Italian name was "la onda" I couldn't remember the English title but, things like this are happening, everywhere.. there is people from different countries, with different beliefs and skin color... it's happening in a modern version...
I’m gonna suffer through this whole thing, because I can’t believe how ignorant these two are.
poor you... (smh)
Awwwe, only if we can all be so perfect as you!
Even more annoying that they talk a lot.
@@VeridicusMaximus I got 29 thumbs up. You got 1.
Who wins?
@@ryanaromero I got 29 thumbs up. You got 2.
Who wins?
I really wanted to watch this reaction but you guys need to pick up some history books…
Score comment it's 💯 and 100% i agree.
"Liquidation of the ghetto meaning they're going to liquidate it"
"it's just the poor part of town" or "oh look, this family is Jewish"... No shit, Sherlock. That was the point of the Ghetto, to have all the Jews in one place. It was literally explained in writing on the screen earlier in the movie...
What is wrong with you people? If you don’t like them, don’t watch them. Very hateful for no reason.
@@hannahbeanies8855 They shouldn't upload video, or ppl will watch it and after 2 minutes realize that they are sooo damn ignorants. We got the right to write a comment and that's what they deserve. Of course u have been payed or something to take their side, or u r the owner of the channel with another account, otherwise it can't be explained.
Jeez. No, it’s not his perspective. That’s what Spielberg did on purpose and he’s not on his high horse. He was just horseback riding that day.
Thank you for watching this film. If we don’t learn about history and it’s facts we repeat ourselves.
Try to imagine walking out of the movie theatre back in 93, everyone slowly walking back to their cars, nobody talking, you knew it hit.
It did. I was 11 and saw it with my dad and my grandma. We all cried the whole way through and left in silence. I remember dad holding my grandma the whole time because she was just sobbing. We're Jewish and I met survivors with tattoos on their wrists in our congregation when I was little as well. I've only seen it that one time and I never forgot it.
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Thaler is a silver coin that was worth 3 Reichsmarks.
The Reichsmark, in turn, is the currency in Germany between 1924 and 1948.
Reichsmark is also a so-called gold core currency.
The €URO was first introduced in January 2002.
The dance at the beginning is the Tango.
yes and the song is 'Por Una Cabeza' by Carlos Gardel - it has been used in many films including 'True Lies' and 'Scent of a Woman'
The dance at the beginning was of course a tango. "Taler" used to be a currency, and the name "Dollar" is derived from it. You need to understand that Schindler had to hide what he was actually doing, the Nazis would have killed him otherwise, and he would have saved nobody. He wasn't the only one to hire workers from this camp, there was also Julius Madritsch who can be seen in one scene.
I feel like a teeny bit of historical knowledge is important here. It's a tad disturbing how little you know.
ah, american education. even when it's taught, nobody is taught to care enough to remember it. highschool students don't even take our own history seriously, I had to shush at least one kid in my class each year while we watched the videos about 9/11.
@@AliceBunny05not true at all. People do care, even teenagers.
You definitely tried to look beyond the lines & dialogue, but you took it too far & over-complicated it that you missed the point & real meaning of why certain things were being said & done.
Ignorants. That's what they are.
During the Second World War, in the fight against Nazi Germany, more than 20 million citizens of the USSR died. These are the greatest losses in the entire history of mankind. And it was the soldiers of the USSR who were the first to hoist the Victory Banner over the Reichstag.
Regardless of what the Teachers Union, College Academia , Social Media Platforms, or anyone else thinks about it.... we should be teaching every student in the world the truth concerning of all that took place before, during, and after the entire WW I and WW II eras and the aftermath involving all of those participants involved. Those whom do not study and learn from the annuals of History are doomed to repeat it. We should endeavor to make the world a better place through the education, protection, and investment of our nations future....our young people. It is, for sure, an investment in the future of our nation.
The guy that has to leave his house isn't taking out a hinge from his door: that's a mezuzah, a metal box that includes a piece of the Torah and is inserted into the frame of the door to seek God's recognition and protection. It's an important religious item for traditional Jewish people, one that marks their houses as the house of a believer.
This movie is so powerful , it truly is. But your commentary and raw emotional really got me. Maybe i mentioned before, but this channel deserve so many more subs.
Well, they had some "commentary" like Schindler could be a city in Germany or the Nazis may have Euro as money. They are also clearly confused with the geography and history. For a while they didn't know that the film was set in Poland. They didn't understand the context as well, like when Schindler said "They are mine" (they thought speaking humanely about Jews to Göth - a hardcore Nazi - would be clever). They tried their best in their reaction and but their lack of knowledge is very obvious.
In the book it was told that Amon Goeth had a trial and tried to bring Schindler as a witness, believing he will bail him out. And Schindler came, witnessing as much as he could about Amon's atrocities, ensuring he will be executed.
I'm an Atheist ---- but related very deeply to this movie . The problem is that especially younger people don't always know that there even was this holocaust . So we are condemned to commit the sins of the past through lack of passing on this knowledge sufficiently . And the events of today show us progressing towards the same mistakes !
An incredibly sad movie, but it only scratches the surface. Movies and TV shows that targeted the World War II generation during the 50s and 60s, as well as the hunt for Nazis, the capture and execution of Eichmann, and even the occasional Japanese soldier found still hiding in jungles prompted many conversations where survivors and veterans finally started to share their experiences during the war with their Boomer kids.
Spielberg did well to show horror up to the limit of most people, but the complete truth would have left very few people watching to the end.
I’ll never get the images from the Nuremberg Trials out of my head. It was hard to stomach.
At this time the currency was (1924 to 1948) Reichmarks after 1948 it became DeutscheMark then in 2002 it became the Euro
Incredibly important film that needs to be seen by all, especialy the generations to come, now more importantly, thank- you guys for sharing this film, it needs to be not forgotten.
That's a hero for you. No matter how much they do, they never feel that they've done enough.
im a german, but i hope you dont think we are like this anymore, bc a lot of u guys think this
We, The Destroyers", Samuel writes, "We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers for ever. Nothing that you will do will meet our needs and demands. We will for ever destroy because we need a world of our own, a God-world, which it is not in your nature to build. . . . The wretched fate which scattered us through your midst has thrust this unwelcome role upon us."
Maurice Samuel - You Gentiles 1927
I’m an American who was not personally affected by this event, but I certainly do not think you are like this. In fact, I admire the way Germany teaches these events, in which they take responsibility and do not water it down to make themselves look better. I wish my own education system would be a bit more that way.
There is blood on every nations hands.
Not that it is an excuse, but it is a fact
Northern Germany used a Taler or Thaler (meaning "valley money") as a unit of money from 1690 to 1873 when they switched to the gold Deutschmark. [The "Euro" you mentioned is a very recent invention, created by the E.U. which was an outgrowth of the European Common Market. That's all post-WWII.]
There were earlier kinds of Thalers, going back to the days of the Holy Roman Empire. Also, the "Dollar" (a term used in the U.S., Canada, Australia etc.) is a corruption of the term "Thaler."
So, "Thaler" could very well show up in old German drinking songs.
And my Grandpa still said "here's a Taler for you" when handing us money in the 90s. Colloquially the term was still used, especially by older generations
37:10 Ghetto is an Italian word. early 17th century: perhaps from Italian getto ‘foundry’ (because the first ghetto was established in 1516 on the site of a foundry in Venice), or from Italian borghetto, diminutive of borgo ‘borough’.
38:25 "She's not coming? Damn"
She didn't come with him, and he kissed her as he was afraid they would never meet again. But in the end, Mila Pfefferberg also survived the ghetto, and they were reunited in Schindler's factory. They both survived the war, and were seen in the ending scene where they place stones on Schindler's grave (Leopold Poldek Pfefferberg and Mila Pfefferberg)
The music that the band is playing at the beginning of the movie is an argentinean tango, it's called "Por una cabeza".
Took you guys so long to realise schindler was a good man and what he was trying to do
My Father saw this on TV back in the day on PBS TV for the full four hours. He wasn't ready for it. He saw Escape From Sobibor, Holocaust but this was beyond amazing for him.
55:03 behold the pale horse he who sat upon him was death and hell followed with him, that's the symbolism of that scene
This had 12 oscar nominations. It won 7 for best picture, best director for Steven Spielberg, best adapted screenplay, original music, cinematography, editing, and production design, and it was also up for best actor for Liam Neeson, best supporting actor for Ralph Fiennes, makeup, costume design, and sound mixing.
is this one of my new favorite reacting channels.. I believe so, we appreciate the professionalism and long talks after. love
this movie messed me up quite bad. I can’t even watch any more war films because of how badly this movie affected me. Such an amazing film nonetheless and one of the greatest movies of all time
The pianist broke me even more
@@mugiwara7347 I tried watching the pianist a week after finishing this movie. I was so emotionally affected by Schindlers List I couldn’t even gather the courage to finish it, but I’m sure that the pianist is an absolutely heartbreaking movie to watch.
@@Xxjxcob you should finish it. The ending was great.
My uncle was involved in liberating a concentration camp in germany. He would never talk about it other than to say the troops gave the nazi soldiers in the camps a taste of what they dished out. Because they were shocked by the condition of the people ahd what was done, including the mountains of bodies, including kids. The soldiers took it out on the nazis. What he saw there haunted hin for life, along with ehst he saw on omaha beach. I felt he felt he should have died with his buddies. Bc he spent the rest if his life drinking himself to death.
My great-uncle (my mums uncle) was a soilder and was part of the troop that liberated Bergen-Belsen. My great uncle Jimmy contracted TB, which was rife at Belsen, and died soon after. He was just 25.
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@@BintyMcFrazzles so sad.
(Bergen Belsen was where Anne Frank died, of typhus, 2 weeks before it was liberated.)
I wish I knew which concentration camp he libeated but he never said other than it was in Germany. He saw another as well but I think it had already been liberated by the 'commies' as he put it with colorful language. He was not a fan of Russia. again he never said names so not sure which one. There were so many...