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Schindler’s List Response #1

Directions: Answer each of the following questions with complete sentences. Use detail from the film to support your answers.

1. Describe Oscar Schindler. What are his weaknesses? What are his strengths?

2. Who put up the money for Schindler’s factory? How were these people to be compensated for their contribution?

3. Why did Schindler’s plant manager, Isaac Stern, get put on the list for deportation?

4. Why was the female engineer shot at Plaszow?

5. What was Amon Goethe’s goal with the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto? (Think about this statement, “By this evening, those six centuries are a rumor…”)

6. Give one example of a situation in Schindler’s List that resembles a situation in Night.

7. What is the significance of the little girl in the red jacket during the Krakow liquidation? Why do you feel color is used in this scene?

8. Consider the scene where Amon Goethe begins shooting camp prisoners from his balcony at Plaszow. What does this scene tell us about him?

9. During the Krakow liquidation, the doctor in the hospital chooses to poison the remaining patients. Why do you think he chose to do this?

10. When the Krakow ghetto was being liquidated, you saw a scene that involved Danka (a little Polish/Jewish girl), her mother, and a young boy acting as a Kapo and searching buildings for the Nazis. The boy chooses to spare Danka and her mother and, in fact, help them get into a “good” line. Danka’s mother tells him that he is not a little boy anymore and that she will be saying a prayer for him. What does she mean by this?