
Viewing: Analyzing the Art of Schindler’s List
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Language
English — USSubject
- History
Grade
6–12- The Holocaust
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In a previous lesson, students considered how Oskar Schindler’s evolution from a Nazi collaborator into a rescuer of over 1,100 Jews adds to their thinking about the importance of individual choices. In this lesson, students will analyze Schindler’s List as a work of art, exploring how the film helps to convey what the poet Sonia Weitz defines as the “other world” of the Holocaust. 1 They will consider how Spielberg’s character depictions and artistic choices highlight Jewish resilience, humanity, and survival and foster an emotional engagement with the history of the Holocaust. In the process, they will contemplate what we can learn from film and other works of art that more purely historical accounts of the Holocaust might not capture.
- 1Sonia Schreiber Weitz, I Promised I Would Tell (Brookline, MA: Facing History and Ourselves, Inc., 2012), 66.
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