schlinders list reaction paper

This was my first time watching the movie Schindler’s List, and I must say, that I should’ve watched it long time ago when we were watching it in class in my high school. This movie was very excellent, it was able to captivate my heart, and really sympathize with the millions of Jews that was killed during the Holocaust. Even though it was a film, when it showed how effortlessly and heartlessly they just shoot the Jews for no reason, it really made me cringe. I cannot believe how people are capable to be that evil, how they do not value life, how they just treat them as subordinates, and take their lives without even blinking an eye, it makes me sick to the stomach. But it made me grateful that there are people such as Oskar Schindler. Schindler was a German; he was a rich, greedy Nazi, whom at first, used the Jews for very cheap, almost-forced labor. But then as the condition for the Jews became worst, as their lives are being taken, Schindler was able to sympathize and used his wealth to buy the lives of the Jews and ultimately saved them from death. He was hiring them, to work for him, instead of being put to death, he bribed officials, bribed Nazi’s, bribed his way through everything, just so he could save the people, his own people are trying to kill off. I was able to connect more in the film, because as a student who studied abroad, specifically in Beverly Hills, in such that the majority of my classmates were Jewish, I was able to really feel the movie. I had friends that their ancestors, were killed off in the Holocaust, or rather, they fought in the war to stop the Holocaust. The film had really made me think of history, and that hopefully it will not repeat itself. I guess that is why it is important to study history, so we will not make the same mistakes, and that we could recognize when things are going wrong. The movie showed how human kind can be capable of such evil, and also capable of goodness. I just pray that it would always be the latter,