Schindler s List Work Package

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1 Schindler s List Work Package Over the next few classes, you will be watching the film Schindler s List, which is about a German industrialist who started out as a businessman and became a hero. You have several tasks to complete during these classes, some before watching the film, some during the film, and some afterwards. Previewing Please complete the following tasks before watching the film. Vocabulary Using the dictionary and/or the internet, please find and record definitions for the following terms. Be sure to provide detailed explanations of what each word means and why it is significant. Vocabulary Definition Anti-Semitism Ghetto Final Solution Auschwitz Holocaust

2 Diary Entry Imagine you and your family are forced to leave your home with only what you can carry in your arms. You are moved to a ghetto, where you must now share a small apartment with several other families. If you refuse to move into the ghetto, you will be shot. If you try to leave the ghetto, you will be shot. In a matter of hours, your entire life has changed no more home, very few belongings, and total uncertainty. Your task is to write a diary entry describing your experience and your feelings. Try to really imagine yourself and your family in this situation. Use the space below to describe what happens to you, and to express how it makes you feel. Use the back of the page if you need more space.

3 While Watching Complete the following questions while watching the film. Answer in full sentences. Questions 1. How many Jews arrive in Krakow each day? 2. Why do you think Oscar Schindler is so generous with the SS officers? 3. How does Schindler get his new house in Krakow? 4. How does Schindler get the money to start his company? 5. What does Schindler say is the key ingredient to his business success? 6. What happens to the belongings of the people who are put on the trains? 7. Why do the soldiers return to the ghetto at night after it has been emptied? 8. What is the purpose of selection? 9. What great crime does Schindler commit? 10. What causes ash to fall from the sky in Krakow?

4 11. What is Schindler s list? 12. What error happens with the women on Schindler s list? 13. How does Schindler secure the women s return? 14. For what does Oscar Schindler feel guilty for when he makes his exit from the factory? 15. What happens to Schindler after the war? After Watching Please complete the following tasks after watching the film. What I learned Use the space below to describe one thing you learned from watching Schindler s List. Include a discussion of what it made you feel and why it is important.

5 Oscar Schindler Schindler changes a great deal over the course of the film. In a full, structured, well-developed paragraph, discuss how Oscar Schindler changes. Focus on his motivations, priorities, and personality. What does he learn? What becomes most important to him? Use specific examples to support your points.

6 Schindler s List Work Package Over the next few classes, you will be watching the film Schindler s List, which is about a German industrialist who started out as a businessman and became a hero. You have several tasks to complete during these classes, some before watching the film, some during the film, and some afterwards. Previewing Please complete the following tasks before watching the film. Vocabulary Using the dictionary and/or the internet, please find and record definitions for the following terms. Be sure to provide detailed explanations of what each word means and why it is significant. Vocabulary Anti-Semitism Ghetto Final Solution Auschwitz Holocaust Definition Anti-Semitism is prejudice against or hatred towards Jews. Anti- Semitism may be manifested in many ways, ranging from individual expressions of hatred and discrimination against individual Jews to organized violent attacks by mobs or even state, police or military attacks on entire Jewish communities. A ghetto is now described as an overcrowded urban area often associated with a specific ethnic or racial population. During World War II, ghettos in occupied Europe were established by the Nazis to confine Jews and sometimes Gypsies into tightly packed areas of the cities of Eastern Europe. The Final Solution was Nazi Germany's plan and execution of the systematic genocide of European Jews during World War II, resulting in the most deadly phase of the Holocaust. Auschwitz was the largest extermination camp used by the Nazis. It was to be the place where the final solution was implemented. Prisoners were killed in gas chambers, and their bodies burnt in furnaces. The Holocaust was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a program of systematic statesponsored extermination by Nazi Germany. Two-thirds of the population of nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust were killed. The Nazis also killed Soviet and Polish civilians, Gypsies, homosexuals, and those with handicaps. In total, they murdered more than 11 million people.

7 While Watching Complete the following questions while watching the film. Answer in full sentences. Questions 1. How many Jews arrive in Krakow each day? - 10,000 Jews arrive in Krakow each day. 2. Why do you think Oscar Schindler is so generous with the SS officers? - He wants their help. 3. How does Schindler get his new house in Krakow? - It is taken from a Jewish family, who are forced into the ghetto. 4. How does Schindler get the money to start his company? - Schindler gets his money from Jewish investors whose money is worthless in the ghetto. 5. What does Schindler say is the key ingredient to his business success? - Schindler says war is the key ingredient to his business success. 6. What happens to the belongings of the people who are put on the trains? - The belongings are stolen, sorted, and stored. 7. Why do the soldiers return to the ghetto at night after it has been emptied? - The soldiers return to find and kill anyone who is still hiding in the ghetto. 8. What is the purpose of selection? - Selection was the process by which the Nazis decided who would live and who would die. Those who were old or weak were killed. 9. What great crime does Schindler commit? - Schindler kisses a Jewish girl. 10. What causes ash to fall from the sky in Krakow? - The burning of Jewish bodies.

8 11. What is Schindler s list? - Schindler s list is a list of names of the Jewish workers he pays to save from Auschwitz. 12. What error happens with the women on Schindler s list? - The women are accidentally shipped to Auschwitz. 13. How does Schindler secure the women s return? - Schindler get the women back by bribing the officer in charge of Auschwitz. 14. For what does Oscar Schindler feel guilty for when he makes his exit from the factory? - Schindler feels guilty that he didn t save more people. 15. What happens to Schindler after the war? - After the war, Schindler s marriage fails, as do his attempts at business. After Watching Please complete the following tasks after watching the film. What I learned Use the space below to describe one thing you learned from watching Schindler s List. Include a discussion of what it made you feel and why it is important.