Schindler's List [1993] Reaction | FIRST TIME WATCHING 

The only earnest reaction is…. Silence, after watching this movie. There are no words to describe. ❤ you felt that message: NEVER FORGET what happened. Love from Germany 🇩🇪 ❤

17 of my family members were murdered in the Holocaust. Thank you for honoring their memories. May we never forget.

A survivor who was visiting the movie set had a panic attack when she saw Ralph Fiennes in his uniform. He broke character to go to her to comfort her, something he reportedly never does on set. Amon Goeth's granddaughter is black and she wrote a book about being his granddaughter after she found out who he was. It's entitled, "My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past. It's stunning reading. Your reaction was very appropriate and touching. Thank you for it.

I was a College Student at the time of release and a group of us went to see this film. Never before or since have I experienced the total silence in the theatre at the end. No one moved for what seemed like minutes. You could see it in the faces of everyone once lights came up the shock and tears. I see what's happening in Ukraine and Sudan and think 'will we ever learn?'

I have heard that Amon Göth on the balcony shooting people with a rifle was kind of his morning routine.

I like your speech about not crying. I don’t know if anyone could get through this movie without crying. Thank you for reacting to it . 💔

The cousin of my wife's grandfather was the jewler who made the ring at the end of the film. After the war there were many times that Schindler was close to destitute and the Schindlerjuden raised money for him to live. Also, at ever major family milestone he was invited to celebrate as a member of the family. They also, paid for his body to be flown to and buried in Jerusalem. One major historical note. In actuality you would never confuse the Auschwitz showerssnwith gas chambers as they were not enclosed. I understand what Spielberg was trying to do but since this is history it should be corrected.

Remains my favourite movie of all time - thanks for reacting to it.

The couple he saved, the Perlmans, were the parents of the world-famous violinist Itzhak Perlman, who did the violin music for the soundtrack. He was born after the war.

Being sensitive is both a blessing and a curse. You got the message of this movie, you really did. And that hurt. From what I’ve heard it also hurt Steven Spielberg as he was making the movie. It showed people at their best and also at their worst. Thank you for your honest reaction and God bless you.

Major differences between the story and the film: Stern portrayed 3 actual people -- Banquier, Pemper and Stern, Oskar was in the Abwehr and so was not required to enlist, the Brinnlitz camp was overflowing, so the scene where he speaks about getting more out didn't happen, Oskar travelled in secret to Budapest to tell of the extermination programs, Goeth was far more brutal than portrayed. Also, the greatest rescue by the Schindlers was cut because the film was too long; a train full of men from aa Auschwitz sub-camp was dumped at a siding and Oskar claimed it. They found dead and dying inside and Oskar bought some land for a cemetery and Emilie nursed them back to health, as she did for the Schindlerjuden

Such a tough movie to watch. I had to pause and walk away so many times. I was named after a Holocaust survivor also so it really hits close to home. So glad you got to see this, and no apology necessary, loved the reaction ❤

I think every grown up should see this movie at least once. I always find it amazing he had just enough money to see them to the end of the war. He went into the war broke and came out that way. He saved 1100 people and last time I checked the descendants are over 8000. Thank you for your reaction.

Should be shown in history classes lest we forget what people can do to other people if brainwashed on hate.

My father is a dental technician and he said they used to use gold as fillings for teeth back in the day.

Saw u wiping tears away few times, knew this movie would get u, it gets everyone first time watching it

Ironically I watch reactions to this movie when I’m feeling down or particularly discouraged by the latest atrocity or act of corruption that happens around the world because the way people (mostly younger generations) respond to with such empathy for the Jews (my people) and disgust for the perpetrators of this horror gives me hope for the future when you all grow into your places of power within it. Thank you so much for forcing yourself to react to this knowing it would be hard and for your beautiful example of humanity at its compassionate, moral best. And you look and sound like I a beautiful human with a beautiful heart at the end that’s all.

A movie that should not ever be forgotton in this lifetime, or any future lifetime.

the red coat is to make the victims count again, with such a huge count of victims its hard to realise them as individuals and not only numbers. with the girl in the red coat you connect with them again. - sry for my bad english, not my first language

when you ask how much of this was true... most if not all of it (when it comes to things that were done to those people)... except for Amon Goeth... they actually had to tone down his actions because Spielberg was afraid that if he showed the actual madness and brutality, people would assume he was hamming it up.

I'm teacher history and historian. When I was studying for teacher I made an end theme work about WW2, one part about the battles and the other part about the holocaust which is the most intensive genocide in human history. For this work I interviewed several survivors of Auschwitz Birkenau and Treblinka, one of them was Regine Beer. A wonderful Jewish lady living in Antwerp. With her I made also a play coming from a movie called The Wave. This movie and then also our play tells the true story about a history teacher who was asked by one of his student how it was possible that one man could made citizens to commit a genocide, the teacher did not find immediately the way to explain so he started to work out the same idea as Adolf Hitler did. I went also to Auschwitz 5 times and believe me that with the first time as with the last time I walked around with tears in my eyes and a question in my head nl "How is it possible that humans can do this to other humans"?

It was actually much worse. That was Liam at the end standing at the grave.

Beautiful to this epic movie, ma'am. Thank you for this. 🙏😢💔

Well edited and great reaction

This movie sure hit me when I first watched it in January. 😢💔

Thank you for reacting to this. Just getting started watching.

17:05 Sorry if it has been commented already, but I read the camp Goeth managed was built over a jewish cemetery, which is why the way was paved with tombstone, they just used what was around with no regard for the sepultures..

A lot of people seems to miss that we see the little girl in red again, when they are burning all the bodies her little body is on top of one of the trollies they are pushing

When I watch this I just feel so much pain cause all marginalized people go through so much oppression. When I think of the stuff they did to Jewish people especially (cause to think how much other types of people they just murdered experimented on) I just think of the fact they got these ideas based on what US did to Native Americans, my ancestors. It’s is so painful the amount of people lost in ALL genocides makes me cry so much to think it’s real. To see how much history repeats itself is unreal. 😢

The day I can watch this movie and NOT tear up, I will be dead. My body may still be functioning, but I will be dead. From the soul up. Dead.

Don't apologize for this movie breaking you - it's supposed to. If you don't cry during Schindler's List, you're not human. But tbh, this movie really dials back the Nazis' atrocities. Spielberg was a little afraid that if he showed everything, no one would watch the movie. It's hard enough to watch as it is. The women had their hair cut short in Auschwitz; in reality, they would have been shaved completely bald - it kept down lice, which spread typhus in the camp, which the guards didn't want spreading to themselves. The hair was used to make rope, and also yarn which was turned into socks for German soldiers and sailors. Prisoners who were put to work in the camps were given rations that contained approximately 500-800 calories/day, and all developed various eating disorders and nutrition deficiency diseases. In the earlier days of the camps, when they had just gotten started with the "Final Solution," corpses were skinned; the skin was used to make lampshades (which were extremely fashionable in Berlin, especially if they could get one that had the identification number tattoo of the person whose skin was used to make it) and fat was rendered into bars of soap, before the bones and muscles were burnt in the crematoria. Later on, they were killing so many so fast (and the corpses were so emaciated, with so little body fat left), that they didn't bother, just stacked corpses like wood until they had room in the crematoria to burn them. At Auschwitz, they started out with 2 ovens and later added another building with 5 more. Keep in mind that during WWII, ~85% of the German civilian population, and 100% of the German military, were addicted to crystal meth. It was included in every soldier's mess kit, and they were required to use it. Hitler himself was reportedly so drug-addicted that he couldn't wake up in the morning unless/until his personal physician injected straight cocaine directly into his bloodstream. It's not an excuse, by any means, but it's a partial explanation for some of what happened, or at least for how it got as bad and as far as it did, and why the civilian population - who HAD to know, when ash fell like snow MILES from the camps - didn't try to put a stop to it. (Please understand that I do not condone ANY of what the Nazis did. I'm just adding some facts and explanation to what was shown in the film to let you know, that if you thought what was shown was unreal, there was, in reality, so much more. My great-uncle (grandfather's brother) was a US Army surgeon who helped to liberate one of the camps (I think it was Buchenwald), and he took a lot of the photographs that you'd see in one of the Holocaust museums, but there were also a lot of pictures that he took that he would not release for exhibit as they were too disturbing even for a memorial to the victims of the depravity. Seriously, what you saw here was a mere fraction of it.)

The little girl in the red coat is not a memory of schindlers but a memory of the actress Aurdrey Hepburn. Ms Hepburn was part of the resistance and worked with the allied forces as a spy. She spoke of the little girl to speilberg one day when they were talking about the things she had seen and done. She sad through the screaming, crying, shouting and the darkness of all the people was a beautiful little girl in a bright red coat. What haunted Miss Hepburn was the little girls expression as u would think she would be screaming with the madness around her but instead she has this look that seemed to indicate that she she knew exactly what was going to happen and had accepted her fate as the child was thrown onto one of the cattle cars on the train by a nazi. Speilberg wanted to honour her memory as nobody should ever be forgotten.

As you saw at the end of the movie, the real surviving Schindler's Jews actually put a rock on his grave. A lot of this film is based on their experiences. There is likely some embellishment to the movie but the actual events are a part of history. I studied Polish History and Polish Literature in college and there are a lot more atrocities than what is shown here. This is just about Schindler's role. Thank you for reacting to this.

at the extermination camps they told everybody that they were going into the showers, so as not to cause panic. Sometimes they were showers but most times they were gas chambers!

I believe in the value of crying. Letting the tears flow is like a pressure valve for emotions, if left unvented can cause harm to your body. I believe that you honor and show respect to the people cried for. Don't suppress it, let the tears flow.

Theres a movie from the 60s called Judgement at Nuremberg,,,at the end one of the best lines is "the value of a single human being"

there are good movies about the so called "wannseekonferenz" (that was the meeting, where the extermination of *11 million* jewish people was decided). there are two german movies with english subtitles - one from 1984 (called _"wannseekonferenz")_ the other one from 2022 (called _"the conference"_ - the best one in my opinion). and there is another movie from 2001 in english, but unfortunately it's not that accurate (called _"conspiracy")._ these three movies show another side of the nazi's cruelty, but this time not showing the actual killings, but the cold hearted politicians and soldiers deciding over the fate of *11 million* people in a 'cozy meeting' that only lastet about 90 minutes. maybe you want to do a reaction about one of those movies as well.

"How much of this is true??" I cannot believe that this question was asked. "Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it" has never seemed so appropriate with relation to the current generation

The atrocities' portrayed in this movie are true and believe it or not, they have been toned down! Speilberg felt the whole truth would NOT be believed! Speilerg also took NO payment for this movie, he said it would be like taking blood money!

Now watch "The Pianist". Just as good as Schindler's list.

With the candles

The first and only time I watched this movie in its entirety made me sick as well. It breaks the soul. To know this was real, people lived through this, its heartbreaking but it also proves doing the right thing wins in the end. The light shines in the darkness and the darkness will not overcome it (the book of Genesis i believe).

The reason that little girl is in color (according to the director of the film Steven Spielberg) is to symbolize that other countries such as the United States, Britain, and Russia knew about the holocaust and chose to ignore it. The little girl was being ignored by all of those around her even in the midst of all the chaos.

I believe that the little girl in the red coat represents Schinders HUMANITY! This is the point when he starts to truly feel for these people!

I would not be alive today because Oskar Schindler saved my parents

Jestem Polakiem. To moje, rodziny przeżycia. Nigdy więcej wojny.

The reason Spielberg opted to do this in black and white is because there was nothing colorful about the Holocaust. Ty for watching this. The film definitely exaggerated how good of a person Schindler was, but it did not exaggerate the horrors endured by Jews. My family should be living on a Shtetl in Western Poland, but whatever home we had there was destroyed. We don’t even know what it was called.

People who use "fascist" and "nazi" to casually slander their political opponents should watch this film.

That’s not snow falling

How much of this is true? All. Of. It.

This at the start is Shabbat

The real survivor s❤

Really hard to follow, can barely see anything

tears are optional.

People tend to get very creative when it comes to war and hurting others. I believe this movie is one of the best attempts to properlz portray what that times must have been like. As gthe other comments have pointed out, there were creative liberties, of course, such as amalgamating several people into one person, portraying Schindler kinder than he probably was (not dunking on the man, please don't misunderstand me), embellishing some scenes like the shower one, as mentioned in another comment. However, much of the horror was very much toned down. Amon Goeth was one of many truly evil officials connected to the Konzentrationslager. Other famous names in that regard are Mengele with his twin experiments, but also women like Irma Greese (Bergen-Belsen, Auschwitz) and Ilse Koch (Buchenwald). The latter has been said to collect tattoos of prisoners and having had lamp covers made from human skin, though the lamps that were said to be made from human skin have been found to not be human skin. However, conserved patches of tattoos have been found. The different concentration camps also all have their own terrifying specific horrors. Ravensbrück was a famous camp for female prisoners, and especially the stories of the women who arrived there pregnant are gut-wrenching. Mauthausen, being the most well-known one in my home country of Austria, is infamous for the quarry and the stairs of death. Though many names of Kconcentration camps are still known and associated with the worst of humankind, there were even more who are by now forgotten and of whom there are no remains left. The bigger camps had subcamps, lending the prisoners as slave laborers to big and small companies, or even farmers. I commend anyone who seeks this movie out on their own. We watched it as part of our history class. (We spend an entire year on WW2, both in Geschichte (history) and Religion (religious studies). The movie, together with La vita e bella, Hitlerjunge Salomon (Europa Europa), and Hasenjagd- vor lauter Feigheit kein Erbarmen (The quality of mercy, the german version can be found here on youtube) absolutly broke me. And still, as I got older and started watching documentaries on youtube, both english and German ones, I came to understand that we had barely scratched the surface of the atrocities commited by the Nazis. And they had support from all social groups. The church, doctors, intellectuals, rich, poor, didn't matter. I hope that I will never fall into the trap of blaming others for my own misfortune without doing some very deep introspective searching. It's easy to look for scapegoats, for things you can't influence and things you have control over, and the current times have brought a sad renaissance of language like that.

Watch Mel Brooks' The Producers ( the 1968 one) and Jojo Rabbit

I think every school age child should see this, amazing how many people still deny it happened. And 4 all the snowflakes out there, this was hard.....

My Grandpas were send to prison, during the WW time, cause they didn, t agree with the Nazi Party... They survived....,, Make Germany great again,, Th was Hitler said.. And they vote him.. There a song,, Broilers - keine Hymnen heute"(anti Nazi Song).. *greedings from Germany

No substitute for watching the movie in full and patch your knowledge of History - you will gain something.

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Humans do this sort of thing to other humans all the time, even unto today.

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I found the sepia tones and the flickering vertical lines difficult to comprehend. Also, the blurred screen introduced at critical moments of facial expressions very annoying, not appropriate at all. There are many far better Schindler’s List reaction videos available than this one.

Jews need support, stand with ISRAEL, thanks

My history teacher said the little red girl is one of Schindler's children he fathered from years of fornicating with various women and he instinctively recognizes her as his.

you are not the sharpest tool in the box .....are you ?????

"I go to work the other day. Nobody's there. Nobody tells me about this, I have to find out. I have to go in... everybody's gone." "No... no. They're not gone. They're here." "They're MINE! Every day that goes by I'm losing money, every worker that is shot cost's me money, I have to find somebody else, I have to train them." "Don't be making so much money, none of this is going to matter." "It's bad business." Fun Fact: During production, the atmosphere was so grim and depressing that Steven Spielberg asked his friend Robin Williams if he could tell some jokes and do comedy sketches while Spielberg would watch episodes of Seinfeld (1989). Some of Williams' sketches, while played through the speaker phone to the cast and crew, ended up being part of dialogue material for his character in Aladdin (1992), the Genie. Final Essay Fact: When Steven Spielberg returned to Cal State Long Beach to earn his BA thirty-four years after dropping out, his film professor accepted this movie in place of the short student film normally required to pass the class. This movie had already won Spielberg Golden Globes and Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture. Girl In Red Fact: The shots featuring a red-coat-girl came from a story that Audrey Hepburn told Steven Spielberg while they were filming her final movie Always (1989). She told him of an incident during World War II where she saw a little girl with the same attire while the other people were loaded onto trains. That moment was forever etched in her memory, and it struck Spielberg when he made this film. Due to the amount of violence and horror depicted, Spielberg made Oliwia Dabrowska, the red-coat-girl, and her parents to promise him not to watch the film until she reaches eighteen (in 2007). True to what he said, she was horrified of the result when she violated the promise at the age of eleven.