Film History Reserch Essay (ABSTRACT) - The Holocaust: Its Roots and the Jews' Hero

This paper describes one of the greatest genocides recorded in the history of the world, the Holocaust. It also displays the story of a man, who saves more than a thousand innocent people from being slaughtered. This man, known as Oskar Schindler, not only saved all these lives but also did not humiliate or mistreat any person as did all his Nazi colleagues. Oskar became a hero to every Jewish person, saving lives with everything he had. The Holocaust is not something that started with the idea of just one man, but it came from a long standing anti-Semitic ideology. This idea began in the 15th century wit discriminative thoughts. Anti-Semitism in the 15^th century, discriminated and led to the death of several Jews, but it did not become as horrific until the Holocaust. People tried to erase the idea of anti-Semitism but Germany resisted. The whole world should recognize the words that were told to Oskar and make them their own to prevent something like the holocaust from happening again. They are: “Whoever saves one life saves the world entire.’’ Nobody should allow a life to be humiliated, mistreated or much less, killed, just because they are a different race.