1. Why did the Nazi's kill the Jews?
2. How come no one stopped the killing of the Jews?
3. Could this happen today? When can other countries intervene?
4. What did the little girl in red mean in the movie, "Schindler's List?"
5. What did the other colors mean?
6. What can I do to prevent this kind of thing happening?
2. How come no one stopped the killing of the Jews?
3. Could this happen today? When can other countries intervene?
4. What did the little girl in red mean in the movie, "Schindler's List?"
5. What did the other colors mean?
6. What can I do to prevent this kind of thing happening?
"Shooting for Schindler's List began on March 1, 1993 in Kraków (Cracow), Poland, and continued for seventy-one days.[3] The crew shot at the real life locations, though the Płaszów camp had to be reconstructed in a pit adjacent to the original site, due to post-war changes to the original camp. The crew was forbidden to enter Auschwitz, so they shot at a replica outside the camp.[9] The Polish locals welcomed the filmmakers. There were some antisemitic incidents; anti-Semitic symbols scrawled on local billboards near shooting locations.[4] An elderly woman mistook Fiennes for a Nazi and told him "the Germans were charming people. They didn't kill anybody who didn't deserve it",[10] while Kingsley nearly entered a brawl with an elderly German-speaking businessman who insulted Israeli actor Michael Schneider.[11] Nonetheless, Spielberg stated that at Passover, "all the German actors showed up. They put on yarmulkes and opened up Haggadas, and the Israeli actors moved right next to them and began explaining it to them. And this family of actors sat around and race and culture were just left behind." (Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler's_List
Read about Schindler's List in Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler's_List.
Read about Schindler's List in Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler's_List.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9devh_spielberg-discusses-making-schindle_shortfilms
Read about the people who survived because of Schindler's help.
Schindler's Legacy. http://www.oskarschindler.dk/legacy/content1.html.
Leon Leyson was just a skinny kid when he was chosen to work for Oskar Schindler, though he was so little that he couldn't reach the handles on the machine. He used to stand on an upside-down box. Schindler developed a fondness for him, nicknaming him little Leyson and showing him many kindnesses.
Leyson later recalled: "Occasionally, when he was by himself, he would come and talk to me. He ordered that I get extra rations of food .." David M. Crowe tells in his great book Oskar Schindler how Schindler on one occasion gave little Leyson "a hunk of bread", which Leyson later described as "the most exciting thing" he had been given in a long time. The boy hid the bread and later shared it with his father and brother.
When Leyson's vision began to blur from the factory work, he was excused from the night shift. Schindler's most important act was putting little Leyson on the final list. His two eldest brothers did not survive the war, but he, his parents and brother and sister were saved by Schindler.
For almost five decades, Leon Leyson never said much about the horrors of Holocaust or the salvation of becoming one of Schindler's Jews.
But the film Schindler's List changed everything. Overnight everyone was interested in the subject - people were eager to hear from someone who had actually been there with Oskar Schindler. Leon Leyson found himself talking about and sharing a part of his life that was locked inside him for so long.
Many students have heard Leon Leyson tell the story of his sixteen-year-old brother, Tsalig, who refused Schindler's railway station offer of safety and chose instead to accompany his girlfriend to a death camp because he did not want her to be alone.
In Elinor J. Brecher's great book Schindler's Legacy Leyson tells how the Nazis took Tsalig and sent him with a transport to the death camp Belzec, though he might have been saved: "It seems that Oskar Schindler was at the station, looking to pull someone off the train. He had seen Tsalig at Emalia with Moshe - he had the memory of an elephant - and offered to take him off. But Tsalig didn't want to leave his girlfriend."
They were both murdered by the Nazis.
More than 60 years later, Leyson still cannot tell his brother's story without tears in his eyes.
Leon Leyson met Oskar Schindler once after the war, in 1972, when a group of survivors invited Schindler to Los Angeles. Leon was among those who welcomed him at the airport. He wasn't sure Schindler would recognize him, but no reminder proved necessary.
"I know who you are," said Oskar Schindler. "You are little Leyson ...!"