Schindler's List
Kyle Martinak
Issue date: 5/2/08 Section: Culture
Steven Spielberg has excited me since I was a little boy. His name alone seemed to project such wonder and awesomeness. This film is proof that Spielberg is not just a fabulist, but proves that he is an artist and a genius one at that. The ghetto liquidation scenes from "Schindler's List" were absolutely heartbreaking, and yet the critic in me still wrote how beautiful the cinematography was on my little notepad. The road leading into the concentration camp, paved with Jewish tombstones, made me sick with sorrow because it looked so real. This is the defining nature of the film itself: Spielberg created this to show people like me that over six million people weren't just killed. They had everything sacred taken from them, and then they worked at gunpoint until they collapsed. The beauty, however, can still be found in one man's effort to save as many of them as he could.
About 1,100 Jews escaped torture and death because of Oskar Schindler. I didn't know that a week ago. As I asked before, how will my life change because of it? I give the film my undying respect, and recommendation.
On Friday, May 2, we remember one of the most horrifying acts of hatred in history during Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is a time to reflect on the millions of men, women and children who lost their lives to members of the Nazi party, who sought to create a "perfect and pure" race by executing anyone who did not fit the "ideal."
On the grass lawn in front of the classroom buildings on campus, Friday will display a sea of colored flags to represent the people who were killed due to their religion, mental and physical capabilities, political standpoints and other characteristic traits. Each flag will represent 500 people who were killed, over 26,000 flags will be on display.
It is unknown exactly how many people died from this genocide, but estimates reach as high as 11 million. Death came in many different forms, such as gas chambers at concentration camps, gun shots, numerous diseases or starvation.
All students, members of the community, country and the world should take time to reflect on this horrible act against fellow human beings and honor the victims of this horrific event.•
About 1,100 Jews escaped torture and death because of Oskar Schindler. I didn't know that a week ago. As I asked before, how will my life change because of it? I give the film my undying respect, and recommendation.
On Friday, May 2, we remember one of the most horrifying acts of hatred in history during Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is a time to reflect on the millions of men, women and children who lost their lives to members of the Nazi party, who sought to create a "perfect and pure" race by executing anyone who did not fit the "ideal."
On the grass lawn in front of the classroom buildings on campus, Friday will display a sea of colored flags to represent the people who were killed due to their religion, mental and physical capabilities, political standpoints and other characteristic traits. Each flag will represent 500 people who were killed, over 26,000 flags will be on display.
It is unknown exactly how many people died from this genocide, but estimates reach as high as 11 million. Death came in many different forms, such as gas chambers at concentration camps, gun shots, numerous diseases or starvation.
All students, members of the community, country and the world should take time to reflect on this horrible act against fellow human beings and honor the victims of this horrific event.•
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