Film Lesson: Schindler's List

The movie "Schindler's List" shows how badly the Jewish people were treated, the killings for being Jewish and the journey to the camps where the majority of Jews faced their death. The Jews were treated like they weren't even people. They were treated like useless objects that needed to be thrown out in the garbage. This was very gruesome and cruel. God did not create people so that they can kill their own species. He created them so that they could live happily together, but it seems like the Germans did not go by that. To gather up the Jews, the Germans would always give the Jews very little space between them. When they were gathering up Jews to ship them off to the death camps, they packed the Jews like sardines on the trains. Also, it was very hot and the Germans sprayed them the train cars with a hose. The Jews were so dehydrated. They were acting like fishes out of water when the water was sprayed on them.

In this movie, the scene that was most powerful was the children. It killed me inside to see them being separated from their parents and not knowing what was going to happen to them. The Germans lured them into getting on the truck so that they can be killed. The children were waving to their parents happily as they were going away on the truck. I don't think that they would be smiling if they knew what was really going on.

One scene that would stick with me is when the Jews had to eat their own jewelry to keep it safe. This goes to show that people will do any crazy thing if they are in a serious situation. They would do any crazy thing if it means that it would keep a prized possession safe. They also didn't have any other choice but to eat their own jewelry because I don't think that they would want any of the Germans to take away their things.

Another scene that would really stick with me was when the little boy ran away from the Germans and was looking for a place to hide. All the places he had looked, there was other children there. The only place left was the bathroom. He went through the hole and landed in crap. It was really disgusting. There was other children there too. I can't even image the things that was going through his mind at the time. I couldn't even imagine myself in that situation. Just thinking about it gives me chills.