Using the lessons of the past to challenge discrimination today.
Between 1941 and 1945, the Nazis attempted to annihilate all of Europe’s Jews. This systematic and planned attempt to murder European Jewry is known as the Holocaust (The Shoah in Hebrew).
From the time they assumed power in 1933, the Nazis used propaganda, persecution, and legislation to deny human and civil rights to Jews. They used centuries of antisemitism as their foundation. By the end of the Holocaust, six million Jewish men, women and children had perished in ghettos, mass-shootings, in concentration camps and extermination camps.
In addition to discrimination against Jewish people, the Nazi regime, in its quest to create the perfect race, also sort to annihilate those who were disabled, the aging, homosexuals, gypsies, etc.
Such dreadful and violent discrimination has repeated itself in nations such as Cambodia, Rwanda and Darfur, to name but a few.
When will we learn our lession!!
This film tells the true story of businessman Oskar Schindler who, after witnessing persecution of the Jews, gradually becomes concerned about his own Jewish workforce. Through his bravery and forethought, Schindler is credited with saving the lives of over 1200 Jewish people.
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