Film Lesson: " Schindler's List"

The movie "Schindlers list" illustrated the Holocaust more detailed than the other movie that we watched in class. I thought both movies were very powerful. It was shocking and scary seeing those actually happened to the Jews though. It was cruel and brutal. It was that cruel, that I got myself asking why would they blame the minorities for their problems and just kill all of them. Does that make any sense and very unfair. It shows how the world can be evil. Seeing the liquidation of the Ghettos was really heart-breaking. A lot of Jewish families would be in a small apartment with probably 6 or 7 other Jewish families. It was very crowded, since the Nazis just put all of them in. Many Jews were very wealthy, and the Nazis took it away from them. Later on, they were just capturing all of the Jews that they saw and found to round them up to go to the concentration or labor camps. People who hid, got either killed or caught. But most likely killed. Many were really desperate to hide from them, that they would hide in floors, sewers, walls, or they would make their own secret passage way.

Other events that was more heart-breaking, was when they were taken to Auschwitz or other death camps, and they're being separated from their families, and never to been seen again. But there are a couple of small amount of survivors who were lucky to re-connect with a few of their family members. I guess evaluating on which movie was more powerful, it would be "Schindler's list", because in the movie, it showed the meaning of things. Like the girl in the red-coat, also it showed how A Nazi officer, Oskar Schindler, who saved 1200 Jews through his labor camps. It really takes a brave man to save Jews, especially that during that time of the war were you can get hated or killed for. Night and Fog was good too, but it mostly showed how Hitler invaded Europe and what he did to the Jews and the other minorities, and showed the camps that they were put it and what they would do to them.

Film Lesson: " Night and Fog "

In class, since we're doing World War II now, we are learning about the Holocaust, because it was a big part of the war in Europe. It was a devastating thing that happened. Many people died because of their race. Mainly, because they were Jews.  But also many minorities were killed, like Gypsies, prisoners of war, the disabled or ill, homosexuals, and etc. It was the biggest genocide in the world. The movie "Night and Fog" is about a documentary about the  Holocaust and what happened in the concentration camps and the life living there. They had images of the inmates and all the cruel things they've used to kill the Jews and other races that Hitler thought they were 'Superior' of. The Nazis would torture them or just kill them just for fun. In the movie, they showed footage and they talked about how they would experiment them on what humans can handle. When I saw this movie, I was horrified and disgusted that Hitler and Nazis would kill innocent people because of their race and supposedly, the Nazis were just following orders. But not only that, but also on how they put these people in pain. Also for the past few days, we also watched another Holocaust film. It was called " The Schindlers List ". But that movie was a Hollywood movie, and they re-in acted the events that really happened to people during that time. So when they shot Night and Fog, it was 10 years after the war and the people were in the camp were liberated. This documentary did move me in some way, but Schindlers list moved me more because it was about how a Nazi saved 1100 Jews because they put them in labor. I think this whole Holocaust event moved me in a way that racism and war can turn people evil.