Fun Trivia : Schindler's List

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Schindler's List

Much criticism of 'Schindler's List' centers around respect for victims of the Holocaust. Why are documentaries like 'Shoah' and 'Night and Fog' considered acceptable by this rule, while 'Schindler's List' is not?

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'Schindler's List' was a fictionalization. Spielberg was accused of trying to represent the unimaginable. The idea of having actors portray Holocaust victims in a movie designed to play to the masses strikes many as disrespectful. Many, however, argue that the cultural elitism of the documentary purists has allowed deniers of the Holocaust to gain ground.



Many object to the perspective from which the story was told. Whose perspective is that?

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of Nazis: Schindler and Goeth. While there are scenes that focus on all these characters, the movie as a whole is told from the perspectives of Schindler and Goeth, both members of the Nazi Party. Portraying the Holocaust through the eyes of its perpetrators, rather than focusing solely on its victims, rankles many people. There are also complaints that the Jews are stereotyped and that Stern in particular is painted as a weak, emasculated character compared to the German Schindler. There is, however, no consensus: many argue that the Jewish characters are differentiated and well-drawn, and that anyone who argues that Stern is weak-willed has not seen the movie.



Defenders of 'Schindler's List' often point to the twofold goals of Holocaust commemoration. Documentaries speak to the desire to 'never forget'; what other goal, according to some of its supporters, does 'Schindler's List' speak to?

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never again. By telling its story from the perspective of two Nazis -- one who sacrificed everything to save Jews, and another who casually murdered them -- 'Schindler's List' forces viewers to examine what THEY would do. There is a tendency to view the Nazis as monsters of pure evil, but this is dangerous: they were humans, like us, and the things they did can and have been done again (by Pol Pot of Cambodia, for example). To view the Nazis as wholly separate, a historical fluke, is to wilfully ignore the historical lesson of the Holocaust. 'Schindler's List' is not as simplistic a film as its detractors make it out to be: it addresses a facet of Holocaust remembrance too often ignored by the media today. (As you may have guessed, I'm a defender of 'Schindler.')



How many members of the Dresner family are there in the film?

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4. There was a mother, father and a son and daughter.



What was the real first name of Mila Pfefferberg?

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Ludmilla . If you have ever seen a copy of the names on Schindler's actual list, Mila is listed as Ludmila.



What did you need in the ghetto in order not to be killed by the Nazis?

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Blauschein. This was a blue sticker which classed them as essential workers to the war effort, and was a passport to freedom as they traveled outside the ghetto.



Amon Goeth was an SS guard in charge of Plaszow. He chose which Jewish girl to be his maid?

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Helen Hirsch. He then 'lost' her to Oskar Schindler in a card game.



What was the last name of the Rabbi whom Oskar Schindler saved from being singled out for death?

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Levartov.



Poldek Pfefferberg was a member of which organisation inside and outside the ghetto?

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the black market. He was a black marketeer, and obtained many of the things that Schindler needed for bribing SS officials and other Nazi Party members.



What was the name of Schindler's long-suffering wife?

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Emilie. Despite what the film says, Oskar was not faithful to her, in Brinlitz or after. He abandoned her in South America after he was invited to Israel, penniless.



What was the name of the black marketeer whom Schindler bribed to let certain people on his list?

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Marcel Goldberg . He was in the black market with Poldek Pfefferberg, and in the film he is seen jeering at him because he refused to become an informer for the Nazis. Later, Schindler also bribes Goeth.



Josef Bau was one of the people who is seen forging papers for Schindler's workforce. What was the name of the girl he married in the work camp?

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Rebeka. Rebeka was one of the people mistakenly sent to Auschwitz and rescued by Oskar.



What was the name of the boy who put Danka Dresner and her mother into the 'good line' even though Danka didn't have a blue sticker?

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Adam. He was later put on Schindler's list, and survived the war.