Schindler's List is a book about Oskar
Schindler's life in the time of the Holocaust. Oskar was born in Austria were
he worked under his father as an engineer of steam powered engines, this is where he
discovered his passion for running a business. At the beginning of the
war Oskar was offered a job, that he accepted, by the Nazi party to move to Crakow, Poland as an agent. Oskar originally
sees the Holocaust as an opportunity to exploit the cheap labour of Jewish people and make large amounts of money. He never hated the Jews like many people and while
having conversations with a Jew he talked to them just as respectably
as to anyone else. He bought an enamel factory off of a Jewish accountant at the
beginning of the war when Jewish people still had the right to own a business
although they were not aloud to get paid for working. As a result Oskar
employed a lot of Jewish people since the labour was cheap. As the war
progressed Jewish people were sent to ghettos and then concentration camps. The
labour that Oskar provided saved the Jewish people from being sent to extermination camps
where they were killed. The book describes Oskar's journey of saving over 1,100
Jewish lives at the end of the war.
Nice post Mat! I think that this book can connect to The Book of Negroes quite well. I think that Oskar is very similar to Aminata in the sense that he wants to rebel and help people. Oskar may have used them as workers just as white people used the black's as slaves, but he used it for good, not for evil as the white people did.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a great book Mat! I believe that Oscar connects to Solomon Lindo in a sense. Lindo was always a lot like Oscar as he just wanted to go on with his life while making some money. He also employed Aminata and saved her from Applebee just as Oscar had saved the Jews from the concentration camps. This sounds like a great book to connect to the Book Of Negroes and I would love to hear what your interpretation of the two books were.
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