He was in the middle of madness, surrounded by people whose work was mass killing. I think he didn´t get over it. He got really traumatized when he was completely aware about the enormity of what happened. But the jews didn´t forget, and they helped him to maintain himself for the rest of his life
"I didn't do enough" The one German man who helped only two people (my great grandparents) escape the Nazi occupation of Krakow, and helped them flee Poland, did enough as far as I'm concerned. I don't even know if they ever helped another person. But, after they escaped to France, the UK, and America, my great grandparents had 6 kids (my grandparent's generation), who all had 19 kids total (my parent's generation), and now we're at 26 in my generation. That's 51 people who wouldn't have existed if that one man hadn't helped hide my family from the gestapo. Generations exist because of what Oskar Schindler did. We can only wish more had done the same. I may not have suffered from the Holocaust directly, but I know it killed my great grandma's mom and dad and grandparents. And all her cousins, and aunts and uncles. We've been looking for any family survivors since 98 (I was 5), and we haven't found anyone. One person can save so many, and all they need to do is save one or two. Edit: Well, that made me understand the quote, "whoever saves one life, saves the world entire."
Whenever I think about this scene I compare it with the statements of those who feel they could have saved others, or were responsible for the death of others during emergencies. In a lot of situations where you are not in any way to blame for someone’s death, people will still see all the ways they feel they could have changed that situation, even if of course the actions they actually took were perfectly reasonable and realistically there was little reason for them to have done anything different. And then there’s Oskar, who knew. Who went to such lengths, and saved so many, because he knew what would happen otherwise. And with the benefit of hindsight, he is realizing all the ways he could’ve saved more. All the things he didn’t think of, because why would he? Those things he kept, they are likely things he took for granted, so of course he never thought to sell them, he probably didn’t even think of them up until that point.
As he think of ways he could have saved more, he recognised the money he thrown away on expensive things cost human lives. He started to see the body count of how many he could have saved if he was aware further back.
"I didn't do enough" "You did so much" ...and both are right. So extremly powerful I would consider myself as a rather cold person with tendencies to having black humor... but this scene puts tears in my eyes everytime, and i've seen it for more than 100 times easily. F Ideologies, f politics, f exclusiveness, we all are so much alike.. from Alaska to New Zealand... there is our Gold right there
My great great grandmother Antonina Krusowski escaped the Holocaust by moving to America from Poland a few years before Hitler came to power. Tragically, her sisters, her parents, and her aunts were not so fortunate and starved to death in the Warsaw ghetto between 1940 and 1941. Oskar Schindler saved thousands from the fate met by the Krusowskis, and for that he is a hero unlike most others.
You guys just earned my respect, ten-fold! You treat every person the same regardless of their race. That’s what I was waiting for, and I witnessed it in this video. Good work gentlemen! There’s no room for racism, period. We are all children of God. Keep treating people equal, like you did in this video, and the world is yours, skies the limit!! “Whoever saves one life saves the world entire.”
I mean it’s touching but I don’t cry. Can’t remember the last movie that made me cry. Not trying to act like a tough guy, it’s happened just can’t remember
For anyone wondering he lost to Tom Hanks in Philadelphia. Decent performance but if anything Denzel should have won for that movie if it wasn’t gonna be schindlers list Also interesting that Ralph Fiennes lost to tommy lee jones in the fugitive. I LOVE the fugitive, one of my favorite movies of all time but come on
