Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Oscar Schindler
A fascinating part of the holocaust were the various methods that the Jews used of finding loopholes and ways to avoid being killed. One of these being Oscar Schindler in which he established a factory in which he saved 1200 Jews by having them work for him. Shortly after the war began, Schindler joined the Nazi party as an ambitious businessman. After Schindler bought several previously owned jewish factories, he began employing jews which would lead him to save them from the dangers that they faced in the ghettos. During the liquidation of the jewish ghettos, Schindler let his workers stay overnight and therefore able to avoid facing death like most others. Furthermore he was able to bring several hundred jews from brutal concentration camps to come to his factories so that they could live a better life, one that didn't include torture. Ultimately, what this shows us is that even in such harsh and brutal times there will always be opportunities to stand up and fight for what one thinks is right. It is incredible that through the work of one man, thousands of of others had their lives saved. Later in 1962 Schindler was also given the award of "Righteous Among The Nations" for his actions. Many label him as truly heroic as he constantly was risking his life to save the lives of many more others; something most would claim to do, but if put in such a situation would most likely not do so due to putting such great personal risk on themselves.
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Yeah I agree, I think if you look at the holocuast it shows how dark and cruel humans can be, but it also shows how good people can be. So many people put their lifes on the line to help jews so with every great evil, comes a even greater good.
ReplyDeleteI found this interesting as well. When we were reading, "The End of the World" the story came up of a prisoner, who was a boxer, standing in line. One of the SS guards came up and asked if he was a boxer, the prisoner said yes, hopped on the guards horse, and he was saved. At Auschwitz, the difference between life and death could be a question or even an action.
ReplyDeleteI found this interesting as well. When we were reading, "The End of the World" the story came up of a prisoner, who was a boxer, standing in line. One of the SS guards came up and asked if he was a boxer, the prisoner said yes, hopped on the guards horse, and he was saved. At Auschwitz, the difference between life and death could be a question or even an action.
ReplyDeleteIt is very interesting, the little things that can save your life during the holocaust. I am glad we got to watch this film because even though the Holocaust is an extremely horrible event in history, it also is definitely one of the most interesting. We have only been studying in depth of the holocaust and the Nazi Regime for about 3 weeks now, and there is still so much more to learn.
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