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Schindler's List Viewing Guide

The document contains 57 questions about the film Schindler's List. It asks about key plot points and themes in the film like Schindler employing Jews in his factory to save them, the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto, Schindler witnessing the atrocities and coming to help the Jews, and his efforts to save as many as he can by the end of the war.

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Schindler's List Viewing Guide

The document contains 57 questions about the film Schindler's List. It asks about key plot points and themes in the film like Schindler employing Jews in his factory to save them, the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto, Schindler witnessing the atrocities and coming to help the Jews, and his efforts to save as many as he can by the end of the war.

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Schindler’s List Viewing Guide

1. The movie begins in color, but almost immediately fades to black and
white. Why do you think that is?

2. Before he even says a word, you can learn many things about Oskar
Schindler. What are some things you can infer?

3. The men in uniform are SS officers. Why do you think Schindler keeps
buying drinks for them?

4. What deal does Schindler make with Stern, the Jewish official of the
Judenrat?

5. Describe the contrast as Schindler moves into his home and the Jews move into the ghetto.

6. Who gets the money that the Jewish workers should have received?

7. Why would the Jews want to work in Schindler’s factory?

8. How does Stern use his position as the manager of Schindler’s factory?

9. What is the function of the scene in which Schindler is speaking to his wife about being remembered as the man
who came with nothing and left with two steamer trucks filled with all the riches of the world?

10. What is the purpose of the scene in which Schindler is confronted with the gratitude of the one armed man?

11. Why were the Jews made to shovel snow?


12. Why did Schindler save Stern from the train?

13. What is happening with the Jews’ luggage?

14. What does Goeth say about the history of Krakow? What does he mean when he says, “Today is history”?

15. What happens to Jews who resist the liquidation?

16. Why did the doctor and nurse kill the patients in the hospital?

17. What is the significance of the scene with the young boy soldier?

18. Schindler observes the liquidation from the hilltop. How does it affect him?

19. Why is the girl in the red coat in color?


20. Why is Schindler angry with Goeth?

21. What deal do Schindler and Goeth agree to?

22. When they are outside the labor camp, what does Stern try to explain to Schindler?

23. What is the significance of the scene in which the man making hinges is almost killed?

24. How do people like the man with the hinges, the boy who spoke about the chicken, and the couple the woman
wanted saved keep ending up at Schindler’s factory?
25. Goeth appears to have changed when he pardons Lisiek, the stable boy, and the woman smoking on the job. How
do you know that he is unhappy with his new “friendly” self?

26. What is the purpose of contrasting the scene of the Jewish wedding with the scene of Schindler’s birthday party
and the scene of Goeth beating Helen?

27. Why are the women pricking their fingers and slapping themselves before the selection?

28. How is the music playing during the selection an example of irony?

29. The women are overjoyed when they realize they will not be deported. What changes their minds?

30. Where can you infer the Jews in striped uniforms will be headed?

31. How does Schindler help the Jews in the cattle cars?

32. Why is Schindler arrested?

33. In Krakow, it appears that snow is falling. However, it is not snow. What is it?

34. For what reason would the Nazis want to dig up the bodies and burn them?

35. What does Schindler notice on one of the wheelbarrows?

36. What does Schindler tell Stern he is going to do now that the workers are being deported to Auschwitz?
37. Why does Stern say he’d better have his drink now?

38. When Schindler’s morality takes a hold of him, what proposal does he make to Goeth?

39. Schindler begins to make his list. What do the names represent?

40. What does he use to convince Goeth to let him take the Jews for his factory?

41. Schindler ends up writing down almost 1,100 names. For whom does he save the last space?

42. The men’s train is sent to Czechoslovakia. Where is the train with the women accidentally sent?

43. How are the women dehumanized when they first enter the camp?

44. When the women are walking away from the showers, they see another line of people. What can you infer will
happen to these people?

45. Schindler is forced to buy the women twice. What does he use to purchase them this time?

46. How does Schindler convince the guards to let the children on his train?

47. Why did the director choose to have Schindler enter the Brinnlitz camp surrounded by the women?

48. What is the purpose of Schindler’s speech to the guards?


49. What do you learn about Schindler when he tells Stern he would rather purchase shells to pass off as his own than
make them in his factory?

50. Why doesn’t Schindler have any more money?

51. What does the radio broadcast explain?

52. Why does Schindler tell the Jews that he has to leave?

53. Why is it ironic that Schindler does the sign of the cross over his chest which displays the Nazi symbol, the
swastika?

54. What is made from the man’s gold tooth?

55. What is the purpose of the new “list” Schindler is presented with?

56. Why do the Schindler’s leave with prison uniforms on?

57. Schindler began to employ Jews in his factory because they were cheaper and easier to control, what do you
believe was the turning point that caused him to begin to save them?

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