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School Ties

Schindler's List is one of the most powerful movies of all time. It tells the powerful true story of the German businessman Oskar Schindler who comes to Nazi- captured Poland looking for economic blooming and leaves as a savior of more than 1,100 Jews. Many of our grandparents told us of the stories and we learned about it in school year after year, but to see it put to life was a totally touching experience. Some of us couldn't even bare to look at those gruesome scenes.
The movie starts out in a Jewish family's home. The Jews are reciting in prayer for the Sabbath day around a table full of lit candles. When the Jews are gone from the house the candles slowly burn out.
The German ...

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working groups by the Judenrat (twenty-four elected Jews responsible for the order). Oskar Schindler visits the ghetto. He is a German businessman, who wishes to see Itzhak Stern; a Jew is good at accounting and used to own a pot-making factory. Jews are no longer allowed to own businesses, so Oskar makes a deal with Itzhak, and plans to take over the factory after trading money and appointing him his factory manager.
It is now March 20, 1941 - the deadline for entering the ghetto. Edict 44/91 forms a Jewish area. All Jews are now forced to pack their things and move out of their homes by German soldiers. When the Jews arrive to the ghetto, they receive "housing assignments" and are forced to be in tight living quarters.

The next morning, the people are gathered outside and information on their education and working experiences are reported. Some of the Jews that can't be used for work are loaded into trucks and sent off to horrible camps. Some of the Jews that are able ...

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entire luggage is stolen and gone through by German soldiers. By mistake, Itzhak Stern is placed on a train because he forgot his working card. Oskar hears of this mistake and rushes down to the station and desperately retrieves him from the train by threatening the officials.

Untersturmfuhrer Amon Goeth is the German officer that is in charge of the construction of the Plaszow labor camp. The Jewish people build the camp, along with Goeth's house located inside the camp. Goeth is very cruel - he occasionally takes his rifle out and just shoots Jews for fun. He is very angry about the success of the Jewish people, and says that all they have done in the past will soon be forgotten. ...

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Added: 1/20/2006 09:22:22 AM
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