It’s not that the little girl is a symbol of anything, but using color made her an individual. Through all the senseless death, it can be easy to get abstract about the scale of the death, and see them as faceless groups of victims. The girl was an individual, and you cared, and she died. A story that happened over and over and over and over.

@windyhawthorn7387

6 ай бұрын

It's based on what he saw he remembered a little girl with a red coat wondering around during the liquidation of the getto then seeing her body with the red coat on a cart later. It's based on true events.

@pennylando3145

6 ай бұрын

@@windyhawthorn7387 It's thought by some that the little girl may be a gesture to Eli Wiesel, the author of 'Night' - his memoir of his experience during the Holocasut. As his family were taken from their home and separated, the last sighting he had of his little sister was in her red coat, and sadly, he never saw her again.

@lindalee8914

6 ай бұрын

THIS IS WHAT DICTATERS DO. THANK GOD WE LIVE IN a democracy.

@redhats_exit1984

6 ай бұрын

Wrong...she is the most SYMBOLIC character in the movie...

@elinchristensen4854

6 ай бұрын

Sorry but that is grossly oversimplified 😢

When you said "piece of shit human" you may not even know the half of it. Amon Goeth was TONED DOWN for the movie, because they didnt think someone as evil as that piece of garbage could ever have existed. They worked with the real Schindler Jews on the movie, and when they saw Ralph Fiennes in the SS uniform, they had problems distingushing the actor from the real man. which is heartbreaking all in itself.

@MrfuckinBeilke

7 ай бұрын

Amon reminds me of a better dressed bibi Netanyahu

@toriweiler1950

7 ай бұрын

His name is said: “Rafe Fines”.

@vntajones

7 ай бұрын

@@MrfuckinBeilkeMuhammad was a pedophile jihad is dangerous sharia law is totalitarianism.

@sivannatalie

7 ай бұрын

@@MrfuckinBeilkeWhy?

@asdfasdf7199

7 ай бұрын

@@MrfuckinBeilke cringe

Spielberg said that Robin Williams would call him weekly to cheer him up and make him laugh because of how traumatic and devastating of a film it was to shoot.

@giffysstiffy8874giffytuck

7 ай бұрын

Spielberg is a disgrace, Spielberg made many films about Slavery, the Civil War and WW2 that are not accurate at all🤮🤢 If we try to tell the truth about them youtube will erase our comments and call them "hate speech"

@LunarisArts

6 ай бұрын

True or not, I can imagine it.

@laureng6874

6 ай бұрын

Spielberg being traumatized by making the film but grinding through because it's a story that needs to be told is so powerful, ngl. RIP Robin Williams. He was a real one.

@MC-pb2hn

6 ай бұрын

I do recall reading that. So sad that Robin Williams is not here, but he can continue to make us laugh through his legacy!

@MyLadyKat

3 ай бұрын

Spielberg also refused money for directing it - saying it would be “blood money”.

As a Jewish person, the Holocaust is my Roman Empire. I grew up with it being discussed frequently. The elders didn’t speak of it to me, but my parents did. I have seen this film more times then I can count. I watch it because they (my family who did not survive the war) lived it, and I feel that by looking away from these films, I am simply framing their deaths as a thing of the past. As if it was inconsequential. We can’t forget the past, but we can learn from it. I don’t watch from for joy, but that is what Spielberg said about why he chose to make this film in black and white. He said the Holocaust was not a colorful event. There was nothing vibrant about it. Thank you for watching.

@msdarby515

7 ай бұрын

As a non-Jew, I watch it for similar reasons. My grandparents spoke of the war fairly often, the atrocities and the evil of the men who brought it to the world. We didn't even know any Jewish people, living out in the middle of America, so it was a bit exotic to me. When I was very young (too young) I saw pictures from Auschwitz. I was staggered. Then around 4th grade I read Diary of Ann Frank (a 9-10 year old with no one checking my reading material for age-appropriateness. Definitely GenX, my parents paid attention to nothing 😁). That book put it in terms I could better understand, a girl I could relate to, but I was always a bit haunted by how it ends so abruptly. As if they really did all vanish. Then when I was around 13 I learned we'd had relatives, my Polish great-grandmother's sister and her family, Christians, who'd all died in the war at the hand of Nazis. Several of them were taken to work camps shortly after the invasion and all eventually died there. We don't know how, specifically. My great-grandmother's sister and her husband were farmers. We learned they had tended the farm with the German soldiers taking everything from them, little by little, and once they had used all the resources from the farm they were executed. Suddenly I had a connection. This all added up to a lifelong interest and a desire to honor and respect their lives. To understand the darkness of human beings, as well as the light of humanity.

@SimaSara1

7 ай бұрын

@@msdarby515 Thank you for sharing that. Such a story to know. We touched on it here and there in school. My parents definitely made sure I knew more about it then the public school system ever intended to teach, but in 10th grade I watched the ABC version of Anne Frank. I was the only Jew in my Holocaust class, and I remember crying like I never had before. I had read her diary, and I agree about the abrupt ending. My grandparents all died before I had even graduated from high school, so I’m unsure if they didn’t want to speak of it, or if they saw me as too young. The only names I know (through genealogy research) are of my great great Aunt and Uncle. They were also farmers in a small village (a shtetl) in Southern Russia. The entire village was rounded up and killed in a single day. They were too old to leave, and thankfully, a fair few of their children had already immigrated to the US by that time. There is a memorial statue now, where that town once stood.

@queenoftheworld1

6 ай бұрын

I’ve seen this movie many times. It’s something everyone should see at least once, imo.

@MrDoBerek

5 ай бұрын

As a modern German it's so hard to watch, makes me cry and angry everytime just to think about what had happend "In the name of Germany", the attrocities, the deaths, it's something you couldn't imagine in this time and how it was even possible that it happenend at all, how people were so blind and went with it...Probably one of the reasons the Nazis kept it a secret even to the population, and those who knew didn't talk about it... I really hope and pray we will never ever see anything like this again, not in my or any other country on this planet ever again, but unfortunately we humans are animals and the only species capabale of war and genocide...May God help us all.

@fot6771

4 ай бұрын

Rome did a pretty similar thing to the jews under Hadrian

“Why would you watch this over and over again.” Because art is a representation is human experience. To watch this is to never forget what happened, and also to be aware of signs of it happening again. Art is what is left so that history isn’t forgotten, or isn’t repeated. Art is a powerful way to not only educate but bring awareness to past and present issues. Western world has the privilege to say I won’t watch it again, victims of genocide did not have the privilege to not live it…

@RopeResQ46

7 ай бұрын

Well said. I have watched this movie probably between 6 and 12 times at least. I watch it because the production, the art of it is beyond fantastic. I watch it to remember the 6 million murdered. I watch it to honor those lost as well as those who survived, that they may not be forgotten.

@davidfrehler1299

7 ай бұрын

Bully!

@Thomas-we5cy

7 ай бұрын

Harder to watch.

@Thomas-we5cy

7 ай бұрын

@@RopeResQ46Good analogy with DJango unchained dude.

@Thomas-we5cy

7 ай бұрын

Art is not a representation of human experience. Human activity, yes. There is no exact definition of what art is.

I hope more people watch/rewatch this film. It’s too important not to ignore the parallels taking place now; it’s shocking the danger we’re all in of history repeating.

@asdfasdf7199

7 ай бұрын

facts

@isabelsilva62023

7 ай бұрын

@martinhouston5158 Everyone should watch this and "The Pianist" right now, things are escalating, I never thought I would live to see what has been happening in Europe and the US these last few days.

@ScottyDoesntKnow69

7 ай бұрын

So y’all know when the liquidation of the ghetto happened in real life, that is when George Soros thrived and called it happy making time. He also has paid for the election of hundreds of DA’s and judges into office.

@chadblackburn6137

6 ай бұрын

amen 🙏

@rainydaze9318

6 ай бұрын

I think it's already repeating now.

Crazy to think Spielberg made this and Jurassic Park in the same year. More than most filmmakers manage in a lifetime.

@correypeta

7 ай бұрын

Wow, really? I never knew that. Thought Jurassic came out years before. That's nuts.

@SedriqMiers

7 ай бұрын

Not as crazy as ppl's Imagination and that xfiles poster on mulders office 'i want to believe'.

@MojiBeau

7 ай бұрын

@@correypetayeah, George Lucas oversaw a good chunk of the post production work on Jurassic Park because Spielberg was filming this. Unreal that they both came out just a few months apart

@rogerdsmith

7 ай бұрын

During this time, I was out at the Panavision offices in Tarzana, visiting with some guys I knew. There were always different camera crews in there, checking their equipment. One of the guys mentioned, that after a day of shooting on Schindler’s List, Spielberg would go back to where he was staying, connect with Industrial Light and Magic, and continue to work with them during the evening. He was actually working on both projects simultaneously.

@casmatori

7 ай бұрын

That's a lot of stress for one person to go through. Spielberg must have been going through it

I spent a number of years in England and knew an older gentleman who escaped from Auschwitz by hiding in the camp sewage like the young boys did in this movie. He told me several horrifying stories of what he experienced in that camp. After he escaped, he joined the resistance until he was wounded and eventually taken to England where he lived the rest of his years happily married to one of the nurses who helped him during his healing process after being wounded.

As horrible as the brutality was in this film, Spielberg said the reality was much worse.

@nigelfoster6151

7 ай бұрын

Read the book. Much much worse, e. g. Auschwitz, children's heads swung against walls. And I suspect the reality was much worse still. Spielberg did a brilliant job in getting the horror across whilst still making the film watchable. Just.

@AmethystEyes

6 ай бұрын

@@nigelfoster6151it’s even worse than that, I’m a Holocaust educator and I still cry when reading testimonies and have to take breaks.

@daisybelle1025

6 ай бұрын

Much worse...I work in education, and I am the parent of a child with issues....and having to explain that someone like my child would be eradicated because they are different, caused a whole class to step back and take note...it was not just the Jews...the nazis were just fuelled by hate and an evil ideology. Sound familiar?

@notperfectandneverwillbe4825

6 ай бұрын

​@@AmethystEyesI, too, am a historian who has concentrated my studies on the first half of the 20th century and I react the same way to the point I cry so hard I can't see or hear.

@notperfectandneverwillbe4825

6 ай бұрын

​@@nigelfoster6151the scene when they are clearing out ghetto and are emptying suitcase over the edge in reality the Germans were throwing babies off the balconies and shooting them like skeet. But Spielberg couldn't and wouldn't film it in that manner.

The "ghetto " refers to a sectioned off area restricted to a group of people in predominately Eastern Europe. The term in the US is a loose interpretation of the word. Sir Ben Kingsley is an Oscar winning actor. Liam Neeson was nominated for an Oscar for this film.

@jaredf6205

7 ай бұрын

It’s an Italian word that was first used in Venice in the 1500s to describe the Jewish ghetto there.

@drewpiestopsign

7 ай бұрын

Its not completely loose. African Americans while freed in the 1800's were not welcome in most southern and midwestern cities. They weren't allowed to purchase homes in what were considered white neighborhoods. So they formed their own shanty towns and communities which white folk referred to as "Ghetto's". They used that term predominantly for them at least up until the 50's where it became more common in larger cities to call black specific and less wealthy neighborhoods "The Projects". When mixed race neighborhoods started to become more common. The term Ghetto began to die out quickly becoming a more 90's style colloquialism. Still used today but has been more than naught replaced with the term "Hood". Which was popularized by southern Californian cultures from the late 90's through the 00's. At least i think this is mostly correct.

@MC-pb2hn

6 ай бұрын

@@drewpiestopsign except that the "ghetto" was forced during the 3rd Reich. Along with concentration camps, genocide, medical experimentation, gas chambers, "the final solution" ...I'll end there.(the horrors are too much)

@notperfectandneverwillbe4825

6 ай бұрын

Ralph Fiennes was also nominated (Amon Goetz) for an Oscar for this film.

@MayaO25

3 ай бұрын

As soon as he said that, I just wanted to give him a hug and say...oh honey... I wish. U are gonna go for a ride in heck, I'm here to hold your hand 😢. (I stopped right there to write this, I'm kinda scared to see the understanding in his face as the movie goes on.) Like if I didn't really know much about the holocaust, how would I react watching this for the first time not knowing what I'm about to see? Sir, if you are reading this. I really hope that they will translate into English the movie hashtag nova. About what happened in October 7 in Israel through people who were their at the party and took videos. It's really well done and harsh

Amon Goethe was serverly toned down for this movie. I did a paper on him in 11th grade for my History Through Film class.. he is one of the most despicable human beings on this planet to ever live. We watched this for our history through film class... by the time the movie ended most of the class was in tears. Spielberg is a genius. To be able to capture this time in history and be able to make this movie. Takes guts. Its brilliantly done. Schindler in real life won many awards after the war but he never felt like he did enough. He was so devastated that he lost his company and he failed at his marriage afterwards. He felt like he could have saved more. The part about the guns not working. Schindler's production factory made faulty weapons for a reason. He made it that way for a reason of them not working for the Germans. He was a brilliant man.

The little girl in the red coat stands out because seeing her body is Schindler's turning point, he jumps into action creating his list almost immediately after. "The children. All of the children."

@jackiestow4294

7 ай бұрын

No you're wrong about that has nothing to do with Schindler that cop represents all the children and babies that were murdered that's what it's about and that's what it represents

@aaronsiganoff134

7 ай бұрын

I think Spielberg meant for her to represent that it wasn't about race or religion. She was a little girl who had nobody, and obviously wouldn't harm anyone, and they killed her for it

@robertcampomizzi7988

7 ай бұрын

I think him seeing her the first time represents his acknowledgment of the tragedy of war.. While the second time he sees it as an atrocity of war.

@bonya4585

7 ай бұрын

It is starting again all over again.

@ausrav3116

3 ай бұрын

Shindler couldn't have kids, that's why this girl got his attention when he saw her in raid

The reason for the red coat girl is to make you know that Schindler also saw her and also caught his attention, walking alone and helpless around that terrible place with people dying everywhere; and then in the scene where we see her body being carried to be cremated, he also recognized her and felt the same as you. Liam Neeson makes a wonderful job showing his character in absolute shock when he realizes. It's also when Schindler does the final turn in his redemption arc, and starts investing all the money he made up until then, and that had been his goal, in his new goal of saving as many of his workers as he can.

This is a film you don't get excited for. This is a film you experience and a film that always stays with you.

Thank you for watching and sharing. As a Jewish person, this movie is extremely relevant today. It's why we say Never Again!

@chipsdad5861

7 ай бұрын

It is more scary when you have people like Donald Trump saying "homeless people should be rounded up and placed in CAMPS" outside of our beautiful cities." Trump is scary.

@cliffwheeler7357

7 ай бұрын

⁠@@chipsdad5861Trump more scary than Adolf Hitler? Yes, Trump is scary alright, but he’s not responsible for the murder of six million Jews.

@TJ-1234

6 ай бұрын

@@chipsdad5861 tbh i dont even think its bad idea. but thats because im looking at it from a humanizing positive standpoint. like making proper camps/baraks/containers/tinyhouses with running water and elektricity. basically provide cheap and fast housing for the homeless on the outskirts of the cities, while they are also free to go wherever they want. And maybe in order to be eligible to live in one of these camps theyd have to contribute to society a little, helping the elderly, or working on a little piece of land to grow crops and other food for the community....idk im probably being too utopian and this is probably not what trump meant lol

@sandrachank6982

6 ай бұрын

​@@chipsdad5861don't be stupid. This not what he meant....and you know it. Shame on you

@charlesjohnson9249

6 ай бұрын

And yet it is happening every day without anyone giving a fuck! Uigures in China Tibetians North Korea Yemen and many many other countries.

My favorite trivia fact about this movie is that to help Steven Spielberg get through it, Robin Williams would call once a week and tell him jokes for an hour.

Thank you for watching. Many people don’t want to know . The facts of what happened are so much worse. My father served in the British army and saw horrendous sites at the liberation of the camps. We must NEVER forget history.

It was nominated for twelve Oscars, winning seven, including Best Film and Best Director (Spielberg), as well as many other awards (including 3 Golden Globes and 7 BAFTAs). In 2007, the American Film Institute named Schindler's List the eighth best American film in history.

@steviekc9057

7 ай бұрын

94 was one of those years that had so many great movies and most of them saw a share of the awards ❤ (what's love got to do with it was robbed 😂)

A MOVIE THAT SHOULD NOT EVER BE FORGOTTON, IN THIS LIFETIME, OR ANY FUTURE LIFETIME.

They truly had to tone down Amon Goeth as Spielberg thought nobody would believe how truly evil he was. Ralph Fiennes played him so well with his performance mannerisms were so much like him it caused panic attacks in some of the Schindler Jews on set so he took time to comfort them in between takes as he felt so bad. If u are to ever watch footage of them side by side its a mirror image. This was made by Stephen Spielberg as a last piece of work to graduate from film school after a 30 year hiatus making blockbuster movies but he wanted his degree. It's a absolute masterpiece.

To me, the little girl in red symbolizes the humanization of the Jewish people in Schindler's eyes. At first, they were just resources to him, a means to an end, and that end was making as much money as possible while he wouldn't be paying any Jewish workers. Then he saw the little girl in red, a child wandering the streets alone as her people were slaughtered around her, her parents probably already dead. It shook Schindler. Then when they were digging up and incinerating the bodies, he saw her again, and even that innocent little girl didn't survive the evil being done by Oskar's own people while he profited from it. It made him really realize and internalize what he was complicit in, and how wrong he was, so he changed course to save as many as he could BY claiming them as his own resources, and working the system.

@theConquerersMama

7 ай бұрын

Well said

@meggo329

7 ай бұрын

Speilberg said it represented all the children who were murdered all the silent and forgotten victims

@angelalurtz3638

7 ай бұрын

@@meggo329 sure, and that's the symbol to the audience given hindsight into the history, but two things can be true at once. Her role within the plot of the film, as relates to Schindler's own perspective, is a separate thing

@jennifergawne3002

7 ай бұрын

If you read the book, you will leqrn that her name was Genia and she was a cousin of the Dresners; she lost her parents months before. Spielberg featured her walk as a "red flag" being ignored by the Allies

@Catherine.Dorian.

7 ай бұрын

Agreed. It’s watching a little girl and knowing she died, he saw her alive and then dead, the color is to draw the attention and it wakes him up

I'm actually Jewish myself, and I told my wife that I would only rewatch this movie if someone else was watching it for the first time.

I cry like a baby watching this movie, I've seen it so many times and everytime i still cry hard

@jeanine6328

7 ай бұрын

Every single time. And not pretty cry. Ugly cry with a little sobbing. I’m drained after. I can be a little too empathetic sometimes.

@xenomorphlover

7 ай бұрын

This has to be one of the few movies which can cause me to break down....

@Ronald-ih9fm

7 ай бұрын

I'm with you, I cried also.

At this time in history the term ghetto was referring to a small area (usually only a few blocks) that was guarded and used to contain the entire jewish population of an area to enforce segregation

@SonyaFlynn

7 ай бұрын

if i remember correctly they also had curfews. big gates guarded these places and they were locked at certain times. awful thing

@richardzinns5676

7 ай бұрын

"Ghetto" is originally the Italian word for foundry. One of the islands of which Venice consists was originally used for the city's foundry, but that was torn down and the island became available for other purposes. Because the Venetian government didn't want Jews living in the same place as the general population, but still needed to keep them around to perform functions (like banking) that Christians were forbidden to do at the time, they decreed that all Jews in Venice must live on that island, still known as the ghetto, and restrict themselves to the island except during daylight hours. Hence the term ghetto came to mean a designated space to which Jews were confined, and the Nazis took over that usage.

For me, the little girl in red was Schindler's realization that he needed to do something. The little girl represents Shindler's humanity and care for the human life.

Ralph Fiennes was so fantastic in his role, he's so terrifying. That scene where he bends down to look at the boy that is looking down .... I feel it in my BONES 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

If I remember correctly, both Spielberg and Liam Neeson donated the money they made to the survivors of the camps because they considered it "blood money".

I watched the movie a few times. I watch and recommend the film very often so that the younger generation doesn't forget what happened in Germany in the past. My generation (born in 1984) and the next generations have to be careful that something like this never happens again in my country!

Liam Neeson was nominated for Best Actor in the 66th Academy Awards, but it was Tom Hanks who won for "Philadelphia". However, Ralph Fiennes' competition for Best Supporting Actor was even fiercer. The other nominees were: Tommy Lee Jones as Samuel Gerard in "The Fugitive" (winner) John Malkovich as Mitch Leary in "In the Line of Fire" Leonardo DiCaprio as Arnie Grape in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" Pete Postlethwaite as Giuseppe Conlon in "In the Name of the Father" Snubs include Ben Kingsley as Itzhak Stern in "Schindler's List", Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in "Tombstone", Sean Penn as David Kleinfeld in "Carlito's Way", certain actors in "True Romance", etc...

@vanessac1721

6 ай бұрын

Damn, what a year for movies

@teijaflink2226

6 ай бұрын

I think the actor playing Amon Goth should have won an Oscar, he was absolutely amazing, pure evil. I defintely think the acting Oscars should have went to this movie.

@jp3813

6 ай бұрын

@@teijaflink2226 The majority of supporters nowadays seems to go w/ Val Kilmer's performance in "Tombstone", while the 2nd most popular goes to Ralph Fiennes in this film. Although most of those people likely don't even bother looking up the competition.

Nothing wrong with being a student. Being open to learn. People forget that at some point it was their first time hearing information too. And that the world is full of things we dont know.

If indeed you 'know nothing' about these historical events this film is a must see. As one who knew the history fairly well when I first saw this film, I now own a copy and watch every reactor I find a link to. This film is heartbreaking, a masterpiece and pure genius on Spielberg's part. As for your final question; SCHINDLER'S LIST for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

This movie should be seen by as many young people as possible and I hope you do show it to others. This movie was made for students like yourself because the memory of the holocaust is fading and if the memory is lost, this kind of atrocity will happen again if no one pays attention. I hope you do some reading about these events and know that this movie was made for you, it was made for all to remember. It is a gift.

This is why we can't erase history and continue to teach it, even if it's painful to read/hear about it. There are people in this world that want to erase history or pretend it never happened. We need to be better and realize sometimes history sucks, but we need to learn from it and not let history repeat itself again. Good Bless 🙌 🙏

Ralph did a fantastic job as an actor. To make that role so believable. Bravo to him for being so real and not holding back

I worked in a movie theater all through high school and college. This film is so long that It was the only movie running a good hour after everything else was over. For months many of us would pop in to quietly stand in the back and watch the surviving members put rocks on his grave. I've made it through this full movie twice, But I have watched them honor him over 100 times. And every single time it moves me. ❤ Thank you.

@notperfectandneverwillbe4825

6 ай бұрын

That final scene makes people realize this was real. I've seen the film several times and I suggested it to a neighbor and friend who was one of those people that didn't believe it happened (the Holocaust). We watched it together. The film moved him but when the real people were first shown he broke down crying so hard saying over and over it was real OMG it was real. This film changed him.

The craziest thing that has stuck with me about this is that goethe was toned down to appear more realistic. Man was literal evil incarnate

What's really terrible is that the reality was much, much worse. They can't show the things that really happened on the screen.

When I was in acting school, we were told the hardest emtion to truthfully potray is shame. I think Liam Neeson and some others in the film really nail it.

The little girl can mean different things. But I think I remember reading that Spielberg put the little girl into this movie as a metaphor for the holocaust. That as she walks around she’s seen but not acknowledged. Much like the holocaust the world suspected it was happening but did nothing to stop it. That’s why she’s significant. And she is also Schindler’s turning point.

@jackg.1683

7 ай бұрын

The world knew it was happening, not "suspected." The genocide wasn't a secret, the camps and massacres and all were reported in newspapers- German and foreign. The world just didn't give a fuck because the people targeted were oppressed minorities and acceptable targets: Communists/socialists, LGBT people, Jews, Romani, mentally ill and mentally disabled, etc etc. White supremacy and eugenics were popular at the time, the Nazis were actually inspired by the US.

The little girl: We watch her walking, by herself, through the liquidation of the ghetto. She's alone, even though she's clearly too young to be alone. She does not run. She does not scream. She does not cry. She walks by men being lined up and shot. She walks by people being herded onto trucks. She walks by rubble, dead bodies, piles of people's possessions, and scary soldiers with weapons who are yelling and clearly not afraid to use their firearms. She does the most child-like thing ever when she is alone; she runs upstairs and hides under the bed, covering her ears. It is at last that we see exactly how young she is, how small, how innocent. Why did we see her? To show you that no matter how cute, innocent, innocuous, careful, or law-abiding any of these people were, everyone was alone and vulnerable. Everyone struggled, but the struggles were personal. No one was spared them, but no two people would describe their time as a Jew in Occupied Poland in the same way. This little girl is a statistic, and she is a statistic that underlines how there was no sense of fairness in how the Nazis operated. She was just one more obstacle in the way of world domination. Young, old, fit, beautiful, ugly; all would become targeted in time. None would survive, if they'd had it their way. The little girl is simply there to hammer home the point that no one was safe. Her coat was in color so that you'd see her, remember her as a person, and wonder about her. When she is seen again at last, you will always remember her story, and how her tiny life ended in fear, under a bed, in a filthy ghetto, at the hands of monsters. No one deserved that fate, no matter who they were.

You said "As a dad of two little girls, this s---- is hitting a lot different." I'm a dad of two girls myself; whether having sons or daughters, all parents get exactly what you mean. It's excruciating to even think about this. It's unfathomable. I think the little girl in the pink/red coat represents purity and innocence. And even though we never know her name or her story, her inclusion in the story represents the individual amidst the masses. It's not just six million Jews who died, it's little kids, babies, old people, human beings.

We need to watch over and over, we need to pass forward to don’t let the history repeat. But I feel that we are going back to that same place

@2psycho888

6 ай бұрын

Its already startin n it's only gonna get worse

Thank you for enduring this! You really might consider talking to somebody that is historically/culturally familiar with the context in the movie. The one scene that made me think of this was where the Jewish supplier guy ripped the star band off his arm and put his fingers in the holy water. They had to pretend to be Christian in order to gather and have a business meeting. They all freak out when a German sits down and wants to do business, except for this brave guy. There are others where I think you would appreciate some context you haven't been exposed to.

Liam Neeson was nominated but Best Actor went to Tom Hanks for “Philadelphia.” Ralph Fiennes was nominated as Supporting Actor (for Amon Goeth) but Tommy Lee Jones won for “The Fugitive.” It did win 7 Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won numerous other awards, including Golden Globes and international competitions.

@gheller2261

7 ай бұрын

That year the Oscars were a travesty. Hanks's performance was the weakest of the nominees and best supporting actor should've gone to Ralph Fiennes or John Malkovich for In The Line of Fire.

I heard that Ralph Fiennes played the part so well that an actual survivor saw him and had a panic attack so he broke character to try to comfort her.

@daedalron

4 ай бұрын

Yes, that survivor who had a panick attack was one of the movie advisor, Mila Pfefferberg (the woman who refused to follow her husband in the sewers during the ghetto extermination scene)

The little girl in red - I was told the origin of this was an account at the Eichmann trial. A man who had lost his entire family talked, I believe about arriving at the concentration camp and trying to keep his wife and little girl in sight as they were led away. The little girl was wearing a red coat, and he watched until that coat was just a tiny dot in the distance. He never saw her again. This was televised by the way. After you see this man’s testimony, the prosecutor, a father himself, plainly could not speak for a moment. He pretended to be looking through some papers, but he was plainly trying to control tears.

Good Evening. Just to put your eyes on some missed parts: The movie begins in color and fades to black and white as the candle goes out during the praying. Thats the beginning of terror and the helplessness. The color only comes back at the end when the candle is lit during the prayer in the factory when terror and helplessness starts to end. Also in my opinion the girl in red is shown because its the moment Schindler changes. Before her death Schindler was "just a businessman" he didn´t really careabout the people but he also didn´t hate and didn´t to di more harm. He is basically in an inner fight between the businessman and the caring human. During this time the businessman was mostly on top but you could see his other side when he was saving Mr. and Ms. Dresner. After her death the businessman was dead and he only wanted to save as many peaple as he could. There´s propably hundreds of other things i never caught while watching this movie but i always learn more things. I think it is Important to watch this movie more than once to remind yourself what things humans can do to each other, good and bad, based on love and hate. For me its hard to get how this could happen, how my ancestors could do these things. Seed love and harvest good and not seed hate and harvest terror Greetings from Germany

I've only seen this movie once. I wept for so long, far after the movie had ended. I watched your shortened reaction and still cried like a baby. I knew about the Holocaust, but reading about it in a book and seeing it on film just cannot be compared. It made me so angry - still does. History is so important! Never forget lest it happen again.

I searched the channel, so if you haven't seen the 1989 film "Glory" I strongly recommend it. It has a bombshell cast, beautifully down, and one you never forget. ❤

I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes, as I always have when I see this film. It's an astonishing testimony of the power of art to let us enter into the experience of others.

Wasn’t ready for this AT ALL 😭 great story, but sad indeed

@marzh5278

7 ай бұрын

The little girl basically stands for inocense lost and how it was what kind of made him snap and realize what was going on

@greeneyedgal8270

7 ай бұрын

Its a story sorta. The man it's based on saved 1 100 jews. Think of what you would do to save 1... watch diary of Anne frank too. Many movies about the non jews who risked it all to do the right thing.

Amon Goethe was played by Ralph Fiennes a very great British actor. Watch him in The English Patient. A brilliant film. Wonderful scenery and the story really unfolds . Heartbreaking

@Erika-br8xo

7 ай бұрын

And imagine to play Voldemort but that is not the most evil person you have played in a movie..

@gheller2261

7 ай бұрын

The English Patient is a brilliant film for anyone who is suffering from insomnia and doesn't want to take drugs to help them fall asleep.

I think the little girl is in color because Spielberg knew that shooting the movie in black and white (a conscious choice because he didn’t want to sensationalize or glorify the violence) would lessen the impact of the violence. He also knew that shooting her in color, especially red, would make the impact of her loss (when you see her corpse) that much greater. I remember taking my Mom to see Schindler’s List when it came out. Mom was in her early 20’s during WW2. That scene, when you see her body in the cart in the red coat? It wasted my mom. She just burst out in sobs. Spielberg knew what he was doing.

I always thought the girl in red was noticed by Schindler and when he saw her dead on the cart was the moment that finally broke him and thats when he changed

A film like this is the reason why the art of cinema was invented.

Look up the video of the surprise for thr British Schindler. It was a reunion of most of thr kids, now adults who a British man helped save. It's beautiful to see him honored

@susieq9801

7 ай бұрын

Are you referring to "Nicky's Family" about Nicholas Hinton? I cry ugly when I watch that, but happy tears.

The word ‘ghetto’ was first used in the 1500’s in Italy to refer to the areas where the Jewish population was supposed to live. Since that time, it eventually came to be used to describe any section of a city where homes or businesses or schools of specific groups of people were commonly found or in some cases legally restricted.The word itself could be from Italian, or Latin, or Yiddish. The Warsaw Ghetto was one of the largest of the Nazi ghettos and had brick walls built around it.

My family watched this in the theater when it was released and when it was over there was complete silence as it emptied except sounds of grief for what we just watched. It's necessary to re-watch this to remind ourselves to be ever vigilant because there are people among us who would turn back time very willingly to create it again.

Youre right. It was way worse. You cannot even fathom the horrors that actually happened. It's beyond what your mind can imagine, and it's beyond disturbing. This was mandatory for us to watch in high school, and living in Baltimore we had to also take a field trip to the holocaust museum. Did I want to watch it? No. Am I glad it was mandatory? Yes. People who have a sense of cruelness in the world at an early age tend to be more compassionate. My generation is a dying breed. There's a reason imo

Born and raised in Germany and still not getting over it what happend here years ago. Used to drive passed an old concentration Lager to get to my job and was just sad and thought about how cruel ppl were or are. And some older Germans even denying it these are like the nazis in these days ( I’m a black girl). But I’m glad that we learn about it and we have little stones on streets we’re Jewish ppl got killed or were they lived just to have a reminder.

@19HurdyGurdyMan46

7 ай бұрын

Yes, it's important to remember. What happened in Germany and other countries they took over could happen anywhere. Wherever you see a bully you can see the same Nazi mentality. We need to nurture the opposite in our hearts.

Great reaction. This is a tough film to watch, but I'm glad you decided to do it, and regardless of how awful some of these scenes are, I feel like it is important for everybody to see. People need to be aware of what took place during this period so that it never happens again.

I often watch it in November as part of remembering the wars. It’s definitely not a popcorn movie, for sure.

This is based off a real man who saved 1,100 jews. We have this crap happening again around the world because of anti Semitic views taught in our own colleges. THANK YOU FOR VIEWING THIS. I PRAY MSNY OTHE5S SEE THE HORROR OF HATE AT THIS LEVEL... ALSO WATCH THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK

@najmiazman24

7 ай бұрын

i mean jews now managed to turn this movie 180 degree 🤷‍♀️

There is no ready for this fucking film. I remember when mom and my older sister went to see this in the theater (on Oscar night, no less when it won best picture.) I was too young, but they both came back looking deathly pale and didn’t talk the next day. Fun fact: Spielberg had just gotten finished working with one of my favorites, the great Robin Williams, on his previous film. Robin, being Robin, would call Spielberg up at the end of the week of filming this movie and just make him laugh for a few hours. RIP, Robin. He was too good for this world. Recommended: the Best Years of Our Lives, To Kill A Mockingbird, Night if the Hunter.

@cliffwheeler7357

7 ай бұрын

It’s incredibly disappointing when people feel the need to use profanities as as adjectives. Couldn’t you have written this incredible film, or, this profound film for example. But no, for you it had to be this F**king film. Is your vocabulary really so impoverished that you have to resort to using such obscene language?

This movie is mostly watched by older students who maybe learning about WW2 or by someone who is rewatching it with someone who has never seen it. It's a piece of history. Just like the movie GLORY, this should be used for educational purposes. I watched it a handful of times, only with others who had never seen it before. It always breaks my heart. But I'm there to answer any questions someone has when they watched it with me.

@ramudon2428

7 ай бұрын

We watched this in year 7 (I believe, it could have been 6 or 8), as a part of school.

This will always be my favorite Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes film, just like Hotel Rwanda is my favorite Don Cheadle film. So much heart, so much commitment, and such bravery on the actors' parts to go the places they needed to in order to portray such horrific human experiences. Thank you for your reaction.

I cried almost uncontrollably the first time watching this. My Nana lived in Nazi occupied Denmark during WWII, and my uncle who was part of an underground resistance, eventually got captured by the gestapo, then was sent to a concentration camp in Poland. She was only 11 when the nazis invaded, she got separated from her mother for 3 days, I can't even imagine the terror.

This is such a hard movie to see, but such an important movie to see. The Voldemort actor is Ralph (he pronounces it as Rafe) Fiennes and he is brilliant. If you haven't seen him in The Menu, please add that to your watch-list.

@irenesimons9421

6 ай бұрын

His name is pronounced thus: Raith/Wraith. He did a sterling job in The English Patient.

I know quite a bit about this part of history and I don't find this movie hard to watch. I watch it every year to remind myself about the horrors and the lives that were lost. I'm from the Netherlands and the war has made quite an impact here as well. For me it's part of remembering. It's a sad story, but there's also hope and I think it's important that many people watch it to know more about what happened. This movie doesn't sugarcoat the truth and I like that. Sadly, history is still repeating itself...

This movie came out when I was a teenager. I watched it with my mom. It affected me greatly, and I cried my eyes out.

Schindlers List hit me the same way as Saving Private Ryan. You left the theatre stunned and shattered by what you’ve just seen. When I saw SPR, I went with two Doctors. One of them had to leave the theatre a couple of times. It was just a bit overwhelming for him.

EVERY young person should watch this movie. EVERY. Young. person. Furthermore, they need to find a similar story to immortalize about Lenin and Stalin's gulags in communist Russia. From 1921-1953 over 20 million men, women, and children died from famine, executions, exhaustion and starvation in labor camps under socialist rule. Maybe this movie already exists and I'm just not aware of it, but we need a director like Spielberg to immortalize a story about it in a similar fashion like Schindler's List. It's a lesser-known period in history and is not taught in US schools (and that's not an accident), but we've got 20 million bodies from less than 100 years ago to demonstrate why communism (and socialism by extension) does not work. All it does is take the corruption we have now and legitimize it, and eradicate all opportunity for the middle/lower classes to improve their lives. If you think it's bad now, do some research on how Lenin and Stalin came to power and how they kept it. It had me feeling a similar way as this movie.

@susieq9801

7 ай бұрын

The genocide of native Americans also killed millions. It was estimated there were 50 to 100 MILLION before Europeans came but by the end of the 19th century 90% were dead by genocide, starvation or European diseases to which they had no immunity.

@BoothTheGrey

7 ай бұрын

If somebody who is an idiot claims he is a genius... would you for all time say "genius" to him even if you really see all the time how stupid he is? Just because the Sovjets CLAIMED that they were communist or socialist... could you at least try to think that MAYBE this term was used by the government as an empty ideological term? And that it is NOW used as a synonym for the sovjet dictatorship although this is NOT really what communism or socialism is about to dismiss the ideas behind socialism? Maybe... there are people who want many others to not think a bit deeper about the bad elements of the current system? Sometimes... words are used to dismiss an idea. Or to mislead people. Capitalism is about having the ownership of capital/companies in a few hands of very rich people. Socialism is about having the ownership in the hands of the working people. Could it work? Who knows. Was never tried. Especially not in USSR. The leaders of the communist party in USSR and all the other "communist" countries NEVER have been the workers in the factories. The leaders were... just dictators and THEY owned the country. Not the people! Having a small gang of idiots owning a country is no social construct at all - but it definitely is not communism or socialism. Is it so hard to acknowledge? Just check out the current state of the three capitalist countries Sweden, USA and China. All have a VERY different capitalism built in. One even claims to be "communist" (whoever today thinks that China is communist clearly is not interested in reality a tiny bit). Lables are often not accurate to reality and sometimes even the opposite of what is real. Which finally leads me to the movie: Over the gates of many Concentration Camps in Germany the words "Arbeit macht frei" was written. "Work sets you free" is the translation. Do you think the Jews and others who where there in KZs should have believed it just because the words have been large? Dont take every claim or label like a given.

@CharlieRogers50

7 ай бұрын

@@BoothTheGrey socialism/communism is theoretically a good idea, but greed at the top always takes over. The difference is opportunity and freedom at lower levels. Yes, we have the 1% (that includes politicians/the government) that are exponentially richer than the rest of the US, however any person in the US still has the ability to do what they want and make their lives better. Anyone can start a business and if it does well, they can reap the benefits. This is not so under socialism/communism. All of that wealth goes to the state (elites). The difference is you don't to keep ANYTHING you earn. And the elites in charge will do ANYTHING to stay there, including murdering citizens in the streets. This dude said, "Sign me up!"

@BoothTheGrey

7 ай бұрын

@@CharlieRogers50 I dont wanted to start a discussion what is "better" and what not. I just wanted to say that a label sometimes is really misleading. And the label "communism" or "socialism" is often misleading. But your claims are already partly ideological. How sad. Actually no US person has the ability to do what they want - which is quite good. But for many their freedom is really limited. Cause everybody who has no money is clearly forced to sell his labor force. This is really no pure freedom (especially when in USA your health care depends on it). In USA work is so absurdly exxagarated. The best way to make a system better is to look very critical about it. And not defend it all over the place.

@CharlieRogers50

7 ай бұрын

@@BoothTheGrey "They should make a movie about the $20 million people that died during the socialist/communist state under Lenin and Stalin." You: "It really wasn't that bad." 😳😳😳😳😳 Imagine if someone said that about the Nazis and the Holocaust.

My history teacher in grade 9 gave our class a serious reality check when she showed this to us at the tender age of 14.

I've seen this movie probably 5 or 6 times. Each rewatch is more sickening than the last, and i bawl like an infant at the end every freaking time. Last year i watched it with daughter. She was absolutely devastated but immensely thankful. There are some things where a lethal dose of hard core realism are needed to really understand the depths of evil the human species has an affinity for, and the high cost that it is to dehumanize "the other". Schindler's list is one of these things works that brings the message home. You will, someday, watch this movie again, and most likely it will be as part of a teaching moment with your children.

Topic , Girl in the red coat... Schindler sees her during the evacuation of the ghetto and he sees her during the burning of the dead. Schindler undergoes a transformation in several stages from the evacuation of the ghetto to the cremation. And when he recognizes the girl at the cremation, he decides to save his workers from execution by the SS. Your reactions and treatment of the movie are great... I was in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin when I was at school. Impressions that you never forget and should never forget. The actors and also Spielberg have staged the story and the cruelty of the time very well. Simply epic... Sorry for my bad English, I have to use a translator.

I watch this at least once a year and watch many reactions. I watch this over and over to never let the raw pain of what once happened and could happen again to leave me, least I not taken action when necessary.

Ben Kingsley (Itzhak Stern) has been in LOTS of films, but became most famous for winning Best Oscar as “Gandhi” in 1983. He also played one of the nastiest criminals ever in the film “Sexy Beast” in 2000.

Thanks for watching this movie. I personally think the girl in the red coat symbolizes the change in Schindler's perspective; when he sees her body in the cart on the way to the pyre, he has that look on his face of revelation and realization.

My grandfather who raised me was a doctor in the Displaced Persons camps where the prople from camps went after. Essentially a half way house to reenter society. They were treated medically. Since they had no papers or clothes or even shoes in many cases. And the trauma. It haunted Papa. But he helped so many to not just live but come to America. Throughout my childhood people would come to visit. People he helped, to show him there children, their grandchildren. I was fortunate to be included in so many of these peoples lives. A fact that always stuck with me was that the calorie allowance for a worker in the ghetto was 650 calories. Imagine how you function on 650 calories a day. Much less work or handle stress. And that was for workers. For anyone not working it was less. 650 calories.

I was shown in school and I think it was among the best elements of my education

The "familiar" guy is Sir Ben Kingsley...Gandhi likely his most famous movie. Ralph Fiennes played Amon Goeth. He said playing the part really made him sick for a long time. The part at the end where the real people were accompanied by the actors who portrayed them was beautiful, especially the little boy who hid in the toilet, now a grown man. This movie needs to be a warning that such horrors can happen again and ARE happening again. Nobody is born hating. It is learned and taught by evil people. This is why history matters. Another excellent movie, much less graphic and more uplifting is "Nicky's Family" about an Englishman who smuggled out children. Few, including his own wife and the children he saved as infants knew what he did until decades later and they found out by accident when his wife found a stash of photos and names.

The importance of the girl in the red is exactly that: no one was special. No one escaped. There was no reason or rhyme, nothing special that anyone could do that would allow them to live.

I think the little girl is a symbol. She stood out to Schindler in the movie, when he saw her helpless I think he wanted to help her but couldn't. When he saw her dead he felt like a line had been drawn and he had to do something because he couldn't live with the guilt of doing nothing.

this film make me cry like a baby every time so im going to in watching you in tears again i first watched this in school in history lesson and i was in tears

I watch this every year. It’s easy to see so much pain and death in the world and become numb to it. Whenever the sadness and rage within me begins to subside, I watch this movie. I sit in silence and with each tear, I promise that I will never stop caring for those less fortunate than me, and that my rage at those who exploit, murder, and oppress others will never die. Never shall I forget that night, the first night in [a concentration] camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed... Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.- Elie Wiesel

Ive seen it more than once but every time it shows the actual survivors in color at the end I cry.

Your reactions are sooo real. This is the first time I’ve rewatched SL in 30 years. It’s so painful, but it’s a pain we all need to feel.

THE LITTLE GIRL IN RED, The little girl in red sybolizes the innocence that was destroyed just because of the hatred based on nothing. She represents the innocence. The movie singled her out to give the view someone to care about and focus on and worry about and then to have your concern answered with cruelty. It gives the view a pin prick compared to what actually happened.

18:51 - a wonderful movie and best performance by Liam Neeson (in my opinion) is "Les Miserable" 1998 with Uma Thurman and Geoffrey Rush. Consider reacting.

@theConquerersMama

7 ай бұрын

Good one

The first time I watched it, I was depressed for a long time. I watched it a few yrs later after listening to more testimonials, and got even more insight into this particular story.

6:55 Typewriters did have a backspace key...but that's all they did, is move the cartridge back one space, it did not erase anything since it was ink on paper. To erase in the really old days they used "white-out" to paint over the incorrect words or letters.

"Ghetto" here isn't a term for the poor part of town. It's a term for what amounts to an open-air ethnic prison. People are forced into a small area to live, usually based on race or ethnicity, and not allowed out. There were over 1000 such Jewish ghettoes in WWII.

@theConquerersMama

7 ай бұрын

It's also the root of why ghettos in the US were called that.

So a few things in summary because its easynto get lost in this movie especially early... 1. Oscar Schindler was a factory owner... the war made him filthy rich... he was German and had no particular love for the Jews...except they were cheap labor. 2. The actor playing Schindler's accountant is Ben Kingsley...hes been in a lot of stuff and is always great. 3. The girl in red is Jewish girl we're mean to track through the atrocities and is someone Schindler keeps noticing which is why she's in color. We only see her a couple times, but she is representative. 4. Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes) represents the attitude of the SS against the Jews... theyre just bugs to be squashed at one's whim and amusement... just expendable toys. 5. It wasnt until the girl in red was dead that Oscar realized that ignoring the bad could no longer be condoned. The shower scene at the end was impactful because by then they all knew about the "showers" (which were gas chambers)... they were sure they would die.

@baronbrummbar8691

7 ай бұрын

Amon Goeth was even despised among the ranks of the SS ........ but he was so rich he bribed the NS leadership to get away with it some of his friends forexample Karl Otto Koch where executed by the nazis themself (for murder of his prisoners and coruption) ......

@susieq9801

7 ай бұрын

Saving the people Schindler did also left him impoverished. He was no longer filthy rich. He BOUGHT those peoples' lives at great risk to himself.

@BoothTheGrey

7 ай бұрын

According no1 - like most of german capitalist owners acted. Usually capitalist owners prefer a "free" country ... but if business has to be done under a fascist regime they gonna do that. Capitalism is NOT in need of freedom. But it can help cause capitalism needs many consumers. If most consumers are slaves... this is bad for business. But if SOME are slaves? They mostly just take it. Like today many corporations outsource parts of the production in countries where working people have so bad conditions they could be called slave-like. Unfortunately this is a typical hollywood movie. Spielberg did a great job in showing the horror from a few individual points of view. But show how a "filthy" capitalist can become a hero to save a thousand people does not help in preventing any society be taken over by fascists. It helps to create feelings how bad this is. But does not help to give any idea how to deal with the rising of any political power that has fascist elements. Still a great movie.

@baronbrummbar8691

7 ай бұрын

@@BoothTheGrey the capitalists actully hated the nazis (but simply not as much as the comies (obviously)) the biggest supporter of the nazis (thysen) even when to conzentration camp after he complained that the government interfered in his business

@BoothTheGrey

7 ай бұрын

@@baronbrummbar8691 Having an arrogant, slight despise is no "hate". The conservatives in Germany in the early 1930s thought they could use Hitler as a puppet. This stupid idiocy conservatives still do today in many areas in the world. And of course Nazis put all sorts of people into KZs when they didnt collaborate enough. Thats what Nazis do. And... what capitalists (mostly) do is to collaborate under all possible circumstances to become and/or stay rich. And you hopefully know that many capitalists also despise democracy.

To your question as to why he seemed more comfortable at the beginning and tense at the end; He didn’t care in the beginning who was hurt, or who was lost. All he cared about was money. It wasn’t after spending time with the Jews that he understood what was truly going on, then started to grow more tense as time passed. He realized he played an important part of these peoples fate

The importance of the girl is historical. Oscar Schindler reported seeing her during the cleansing of the Ghetto, walking around without parents and it struck him during the midst of all the chaos that this child was walking around and no one seemed to notice her, and he hoped she could actually hide. She made it human for him. Then when he saw her dead in the same red coat, it moved him so much that he realized truly what was happening and that he couldn't just stand by and do nothing anymore.

You might not have recognized Ralph Fiennes, the actor who portrays Amon Goth, but he also portrays Voldemort in the HP movies.

I think this is the best movie Leam made by far. He was really good in The Grey too.

One of my father’s closest friends is the son-in-law of one of the Schindler Jews. He was a teenager during WWII, and worked in the factory. After the war he returned to Vienna, eventually becoming a banker, and financially supported Schindler later in life. The girl in the red coat represents the loss of innocence. In the film, Schindler saw her as an individual, and blamed himself for her death. Which motivated him to save 1,100 Jews. The girl is actually based off a real Jewish girl in the ghetto who was known for always wearing a red coat. Spielberg used her is inspiration because red stands out, and is also the color of blood. PS: Schindler’s factory is now a museum. While, Ralph Fiennes was cast as Voldemort, because of his role as Amon Goth.

The Girl in the Red Dress always, to me, represented hope, and when hope dies Oscar then knows he has to intervine, because if he doesn't they would die, just as the girl in the red dress did.

You'll notice that when Schindler saw the little girl each time it was a turning point for his character. When he first saw her then again when he saw her body his motivations completely shifted.