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  1. PDF A Study Guide

    The Schindler's List Teaching Guide provides the historical background and psychological theories necessary to explore the ethical dilemmas-- and their contemporary relevance— posed in Schindler's List. It focuses on a simple question: "Why did Oskar Schindler do it?" Schindler was a man of complex contradictions. On the one hand, he ...

  2. PDF Schindlers List Questions

    Schindlers List Questions: A Study Guide for Thomas Keneally's "Schindler's List" Gale, Cengage Learning,2016-06-29 A Study Guide for ... to conduct independent inquiry and research into Oskar Schindler and the Holocaust event using the internet or reference

  3. Schindler's List Essay Questions

    The Question and Answer section for Schindler's List is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel. Schinderls list question 4. -Jewish Ghettos. -"Death" cattle trains full of people. -Death camps like Auschwitz. - starvation at camps.

  4. How 'Schindler's List' Transformed Americans' Understanding of the

    The Nazi in question, Oskar Schindler, is credited with saving more than 1,000 Jews by putting them to work at his Krakow enamel factory, thus sparing them from deportation and death. Schindler ...

  5. Schindler's List Study Guide

    Though Schindler's List doesn't take place on an active battlefield, World War II is the context behind virtually all of the major events in the book. Fascism, a far-right nationalist political philosophy that began in Italy around World War I, rose to prominence in the 1930s and 1940s and is particularly associated with Adolf Hitler (the leader of Germany's Nazi Party) and Benito Mussolini.

  6. Oskar Schindler's List: a Research Paper

    One such individual was Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist whose efforts to save over a thousand Jews were immortalized in Thomas Keneally's novel "Schindler's Ark" and Steven Spielberg's subsequent film "Schindler's List." This research paper delves into the historical context, motivations, and actions of Oskar Schindler, exploring how ...

  7. (PDF) Schindler's List (1993): An Analysis

    PDF | Steven Spielberg's successful film Shindler's List (1993) is an adaptation of the 1982 fiction novel Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally.The film... | Find, read and cite all the research you ...

  8. Schindler's List Questions and Answers

    In Thomas Kenneally's Schindler's List, why are Schindler and his appeal to the S.S. men likable? How did events in Schindler's List affect the Jews' views on their place and their God? How does ...

  9. Schindler's List Analysis

    Documentary NovelSchindler's List is a "documentary novel," a narrative that reconstructs real-life events. The book's accounts are drawn from interviews with fifty Schindler survivors ...

  10. Schindler's List (1993): An Analysis of Color vs. Black & White Filter

    Schindler's List is not noted for its musical score, but the subtle music blended into certain sections fulfills Spielberg's intention of emphasizing the tragedies of World War II. Hitler's attempt at genocide is the most inconceivable event that occurred during the 20 th century, and many pieces of art keep the memory of the deceased alive.

  11. (PDF) Affective Historiography: Schindler's List, Melodrama and

    At this final moment of Schindler's List, when the authentic comes into contact with the inauthentic, when the survivor touches the actor, the possibility emerges for memory to be transferred across temporal and geographic chasms."65 While ascribing such importance to "memory" in regards to the Holocaust certainly transcends a 1990s ...

  12. Annotated Bibliography of "Schindler's List": a Scholarly Perspective

    The film, based on Thomas Keneally's novel "Schindler's Ark," tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved over a thousand Jews during World War II. Given its historical significance and emotional depth, "Schindler's List" has been the subject of extensive scholarly research and analysis.

  13. Schindler's List Questions

    Bring on the tough stuff. There's not just one right answer. Why Does Oskar Schindler come to Poland? Does that make him any better than the conquering Germans? How do the Jews find ways of surviving their imminent doom? In what ways are they shown as powerless against it?

  14. Teaching Schindler's List

    Using Schindler's List in the Classroom. Schindler's List tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a war profiteer and member of the Nazi party who saved over 1,100 Jews during World War II. The movie explores the human capacity for monumental evil as well as for extraordinary courage, caring, and compassion. It turns history into an opportunity ...

  15. ≡Essays on Schindler'S List. Free Examples of Research Paper Topics

    8 pages / 3434 words. Introduction The film 'Schindler's List' begins in September 1939 in the Krakow village of Poland, which was occupied by German troops during World War II. In the case of Jews, they register their family number and more than 10,000 Jews every day.

  16. The List is Life: On the 30th Anniversary of Schindler's List

    Released thirty years ago last month, "Schindler's List" went on to become a genuine blockbuster, finishing fourth at the international box office for 1993 (behind only "Jurassic Park," "Mrs. Doubtfire," and "The Fugitive"). It also became an Oscar juggernaut, with 12 nominations and seven wins, including Best Picture and Steven Spielberg's long-awaited first win for Best ...

  17. Schindler's List Quizzes

    Schindler's List Questions and Answers. The Question and Answer section for Schindler's List is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel. Schinderls list question 4. -Jewish Ghettos. -"Death" cattle trains full of people. -Death camps like Auschwitz.

  18. Schindler's List Questions and Answers

    Schindler's List. 3) In a conversation with Amon Goeth, Schindler tells the SS officer that it is not the ability to exercise violence that makes somebody exceptional, but rather the ability to pardon the "worthless" for no apparent reason. One interpretation of this scene. Answers: 1. Asked by Krishamae B #1258598.

  19. Schindler's List Teaching Guide

    Research the "death camps" set up by the Nazis during World War II. Examine four in detail and compare them to the Plaszow labor camp described in Schindler's List. Research the lives of at least ...

  20. SCHINDLER'S LIST

    DESCRIPTION. This film depicts the heroism of Oskar Schindler, a German war profiteer, drinker, womanizer, and gambler, who, because of his fundamental decency and great courage, saved more than 1,100 Jews from death in the Holocaust. The film is based on the historical novel by Thomas Keneally, in which only the dialogue and certain details ...

  21. Schindler's List

    What does Schindler's List teach us about human nature's capacity for good and evil? Quick answer: Schindler's List is a human tragedy in which the world is shown how small acts of kindness can ...

  22. Schindler's List Essays and Criticism

    Schindler's List is an unusual novel, to be sure, because it moves back and forth between telling a story and reporting the facts of history—and people's very personal accounts of that history ...

  23. How Historically Accurate Is The Movie Schindler's List?

    One of the high-water marks of 1990s cinema was director Steven Spielberg's 1993 magnum opus, "Schindler's List." The film, which garnered Spielberg his first-ever Academy Award for best picture, according to History, is based on a book of the same name, which is itself based on the true story of Oskar Schindler, a German factory owner who saved hundreds of Jewish lives during World War II.

  24. Aerial Evidence for Schindler's List

    Oskar Schindler's deeds during the Holocaust period have received considerable coverage, mainly since the release of the film "Schindler's List" in 1993. There is much original documentation about the man and his activities, such as material about the concentration/labor camp Plaszow, where most of the people he saved were inmates. In the course of his research on the Jews of Krakow ...