Schindler's List is a film directed by Steven Spielberg. It depicts the life of Oskar Schindler and how he saved 1,100 Jews from slaughter in a death camp during the Holocaust. This film can be useful to a historian because it gives an example of the emotions that the Jews would have experienced. However, the film has some limitations because the director Steven Spielberg is Jewish so he could be biased and because the film did not. display key events. Schindler's List has many uses for a historian; one use is that it shows real emotion. The emotions that Spielberg puts into this film make you feel empathy towards the Jewish people and towards Oskar Schindler. For example, when the Nazis attacked Jewish homes and took away people and all their valuables. This helps historians see how the Jewish people responded by screaming and crying. Some Jews panicked and decided to hide. Another example of emotion in the film is when the Nazis were collecting all the young children and taking them to the death camps, it gave you the emotion of scared and desperate children. The proof was when my child went into the toilet and saw other children and one of them said "this is our hiding place, come out". This also shows how desperate the Jewish children were when they were hiding, some decided to hide in the toilets. was extremely dirty. This is useful for a historian because it makes you feel empathy for the children and for the families they took. Another usefulness of the Shindler's List movement is that throughout the film it shows many key events that happened at the time. holocaust. An example of this is when they show the Strasbourg massacre ...... middle of paper ...... his own life to save the Jewish people from being murdered for no reason because he was completely innocent. Schindler, defying Hitler and trying to prevent millions of Jews from dying in the Nazi death camps, shows his passion for saving the Jews, even though Schindler saved these Jews and seemed to have a caring attitude towards the Jews, this does not This is perhaps not the case in historical facts. . It is believed that in real-life fictional facts, Schindler was a womanizer, an alcoholic and cheated on his wife on several occasions. This could mean that in the movie Schindler didn't really act like that, because his behavior could have been very different in real life (Anderson, S. 2014. Oskar Schindler: The Untold Story.) This shows that the characters historical records were very accurate and this can be very useful to historians, but it may also contain limitations because their real personalities may not be right.