Film and Literature: A Comparative Look at the Holocaust
Ghettos, Forced Labor, Concentration camps, the final solution, death and suffering. To view the Holocaust in any respected medium is to look into the darkest hour of our existence as humans . There is no doubt that anyone looking back on the Holocaust will be stricken with grief that such an event could ever take place, but how could we ever relive the pain and suffering which millions endured during this era? There is no possible way we ever could . How then can we best understand the fear and the suffering these people endured? I have taken two different approaches to documenting what went on during these darkest of years and analyzed each. I viewed Spielberg's award winning film "Schindler's List" and read Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt's "Holocaust: a history". While the monograph filled me with many facts on, and a heavy heart for the victims of the Holocaust; Spielberg's film brought before my eyes the horrors endured by the Jew's in a light which I had never before grasped. To truly illustrate the terrors, the pain and the suffering felt by so many, I felt the film was far more successful. To understand (as best we can) what these people lived and died through, the film is the best medium I have ever witnes
This I feel is where not only this text, but any will always fall short. I could not have learned, however, how truly grateful those whom he saved are. The Romanian's first forced their Jewish population into organized death marches. In order to best understand the entire history of the Holocaust, from the events leading up to, all the way until the rescue of the Jew's and everything in between, is where the monograph shined. Such gratitude cannot be expressed in words. One quotation tells of the struggles of life in the ghettos "a six year-old beggar boy lay gasping all night, too weak to roll over to the piece of bread that had been thrown down to him from the balcony". I was able to witness the cruelty of the nazi's forcing family members to stand by helpless as their loved ones were added to the 6 million right in front of their eyes. The subject matter is what is important when determining which approach is "better". Which is more important? I suppose it's difficult to answer that question, that's why a thesis for this paper at first was difficult to devise. The thought of which is disturbing, it's haunting and yet, it's distant. (Dwork and Jan van Pelt 2002, 241-371). Accompanying the quotation is a picture of two young children, orphans probably no older than ten, huddled together on the streets for warmth.
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