Turning Point For Schindler's List

Schindler’s List Book Analysis In Schindler’s List, Thomas Keneally proves that one individual can make an immense difference.
Character named Oskar Schindler moves to Cracow during World War II to become a business tycoon. His business is starting to become big so he joins the Nazi Party primarily as an economic gain, he did not care to get involved in the activities they took part of. As his factories grow and more sections are added, more Jewish workers are needed to be employed. A new ghetto is built right next to his factory and business is booming. The mass murdering of the Jewish population starts to begin in Nazi Germany and the S.S. arrive at Schindler’s factory to take away all of the Jewish workers. Schindler originally convinces
It just so happens that the day he went into the ghetto, was the same day that the S.S. men came in and starting attacking all of the Jewish people. There was a particular little girl, Genia Dresner, who stood out to Schindler. She was wearing all red and witnessed a mother and daughter get shot by the S.S. men. This was an important turning point for Schindler, now he realized how brutal and immoral everything was during the war. He knew that something had to be done, and he could no longer support what Nazi Germany was doing without feeling guilty. He traveled all the way to Budapest in the back of a freight train in order to report to the Zionist rescue organization what was occurring to the Polish Jews. Schindler told the men about all of the issues, from the S.S. raids, to the Jews being starved, to the thousands of people being shipped off to extermination camps. Schindler tells them “The Vernichtungslagers (extermination camps) also used people as labor for a time, but their ultimate industry was death and its by-products-...” (Keneally, 155). The explanation of the extermination camps left the men from the organization in silence. Schindler risking his own life to inform these men of the horrid doings of the Nazis to the Jewish, caused every word that he had said to be reported to both Churchill and Roosevelt. These two influential rulers had the power to be able to go into Nazi
This caused both Amon’s and Schindler’s camps to be closed, sending all of the prisoners to their death. All of the people that Schindler could not rescue were sent away to different extermination camps, in constant of danger of being gassed. Weeks later Schindler was finally able to bribe the Auschwitz camp owner to allow all of the prisoners that had previously been with Schindler to be returned. The owner last minute decided to ship all of the men and children off to a different camp to be medically tested on. Schindler’s efforts were able to save over three thousand lives, unfortunately not all could be saved. Schindler tried to save the abandoned prisoners from the frozen train but not all could survive. This man was able to save hundreds of families from what seemed to be certain death. His actions alone were enough to make an immense difference on the amount of Jewish prisoners tortured and killed before the surrender of