Schindler’s List Directed by Steven Spielburg & Night Written by Elie Wiesel

Jews moving into ghetto

The movie Schindler’s List by Steven Spielburg, describes the harsh treatment that Jewish people suffered during the Holocaust in the eyes of Oskar Schindler, a German war profiteer. In the movie, German Nazi soldiers made all of the Jewish people abandon their property including their home and valuables and sent the Jews to the ghetto of Cracow in Poland. This also can be seen in Night written by Elie Wiesel, which takes place in the Transylvanian town of Sighet. In Night, the German armies take over Hungary and move into Sighet. The Jews are also forced to move to small ghettos, crowded together and surrounded by barbed wire fences. Also, their valuables are confiscated, and Germans made them wear yellow stars to distinguish them from non-Jewish people. Moreover, the book implies that the Jewish people soon forget about the anti-Semitic act that deported all foreign Jews, including Moshe, Eliezer’s challenging teacher and gets back to normal life. In the movie, the Jews feel irritated and annoyed at first about their deportation by compulsion and the prohibition of contact with outside, but they soon acquiesced and go back to their normal life. However, Schindler makes a reasonable excuse for them to get out of the ghetto by offering to open a factory where they can work by making pots and pans for soldiers at battle. Despite their different perspectives, the movie and book successfully describe the unfair treatment that Jewish people underwent by depicting in detail the condition the Jews suffered in ghetto.