*THIS DESTROYED ME* I Schindler's List FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

[@ellygoffin4200]

The uncle of my wife's grandfather was the jeweler who made the ring for Schindler. Schindler to his dying day was proud of what he did His Jews involved Schindler in their family celebrations. When Schindler was in need it was his Jews that raised funds to support him. His Jews also paid for his body to be flown and buried in Jerusalem Israel.

[@sspdirect02]

While making this movie, Spielberg wouldn't even communicate with the actors playing the Einsatzgruppen. These were actors of the German theater playing these parts. Spielberg would give them direction but he wouldn't make small talk with them as he couldn't get past the Schutzstaffel uniforms. That is until a beautiful thing happened very early in production. A Passover Seder was held at the hotel the cast and crew were staying. Spielberg had all the Jewish actors sitting around at a table, then all the German actors walked in wearing yarmulkes and participated in the rituals of the Passover Seder and Spielberg was moved to tears.

[@GN-jn1ty]

I still cannot believe Ralph Fiennes did not get the best supporting actor Oscar for playing this monster Amon Göth. It actually messed him up for a while - he needed a longish decompression break after going through this.

[@itsjuliescottyay]

I can imagine, because I’ve heard he’s the nicest guy.

[@cjhmarine0621]

Ralph did such a wonderful job, One of the survivors involved in the movie had a flashback panic attack because of how he was playing the part and his mannerisms . Same thing with James Gandolfini in the sopranos playing tony. When you play a part that is directly opposite of who you are, it throws you off mentally and you need a break. Especially with a movie like this.

[@violingurl37]

Spielberg was so upset creating this film, he would call Robin Williams every night to cheer himself up. ❤

[@VagnerBarbosa-t7y]

And certainly for the same reason that he decided to make Jurassic Park at the same time to relieve the tension that must have been the filming of this movie.

[@krs1525]

I loved your reaction, thanks for sharing your heart! It’s difficult to watch but so important for people to know the truth. Bless you

[@asator2746]

The craziest part is that Goeth and the other SS officers were actually portrayed more harmlessly than they were in reality... If Spielberg had shown the actual brutality, he wouldn't have been allowed to release the movie. For example regarding the question why they cut the womens hair in Auschwitz...The administrative authorities of eleven Nazi concentration camps received orders from the SS on this date in 1943 to ship hair from Jewish women in concentration camps to three processing firms in Germany. The “combed-out and cut-off women’s hair,” an official order had noted, “will be used to make socks for submarine crews and to manufacture felt stockings for railroad workers.” The hair was also used to make ignition mechanisms in bombs, ropes and cords for ships, and stuffing for mattresses. Two tons of hair are currently on display (and disintegrating) at the Auschwitz Museum. The hair was shorn from the heads of corpses immediately after their removal from the gas chambers (the hair of prisoners selected for labor was shaved off when they entered the camp).

[@LlamaLlamaMamaJamaac]

YEAH… a couple years ago I made the mistake of Googling Amon Goeth. He was an absolute monster who had no soul.

[@Floridad25]

​@LlamaLlamaMamaJamaac ....if you don't already know who he was, ever hear of Dr. Josef Mengele? Personally, I think he ranks much higher than Goeth on the Most Evil Scale. I'm not saying that it would be a mistake to look him up, as I think every person should know exactly who these guys were and exactly what they did. It happened, it's a part of history and can't be glossed over or pretended on that it didn't happen. We need to know and remember the darkest parts of humanity, so that we can better know that this should never, ever, happen again. Mengele makes a brief cameo in this movie. When the women were in Auschwitz, he's the good looking (and deceptively polite. It was part of his strategy to appear polite and approachable) man in black, walking down the line and asking "How old are you, Mother?" There's an excellent documentary about him called "Forgiving Dr Mengele" that features a woman named Eva Moses Cor, a survivor of his "medical" experiments on twin children. Like I said, I'm not saying you shouldn't look him up (by mistake or otherwise) but I DO say that you will certainly regret doing so.

[@SuviMatinaro]

My mother was a carpenter and furniture renovator in Central Finland. She restored a full lounge furniture set with dark wavy hair as a top padding layer. She catered the hair carefully and contacted the local synagogue. They wanted the har.

[@kingmute3182]

Survivors who watched this movie even said: “Still not brutal enough.”

[@leogerman1090]

38:38 - The SS would cut the hair to reuse it for other purposes like making carpets and all kinds of products

[@WessyD123]

Something a lot of people dont get with that part at the end with the Soviet officer... Jews were not liked in Soviet Russia either. When they said "We could use some food", And the Soviet officer just said "Isn't that a town over there" he was basically saying (without saying it) 'go ahead and raid that town for supplies, we wont stop you.' Even that Soviet officer saw that they needed/deserved it. Its hard for people now to understand what that meant cause the Russians were technically our allies in WW2, but that was basically the same as a Nazi telling them they could.

[@anastasiabeaverhausen516]

I can’t believe you said Mauthausen. My Dad liberated Mauthausen. Usually its people toured Auschwitz.

[@jeremynation3186]

6:26 The crazy part is that those weren't even Germans screaming, "Goodbye, Jews!"; those were Poles doing that.

[@rachzen]

" I can't get a read on this guy yet." Just wait one second.

[@xsanriodollx9073]

Jurassic Park was actually in post-production during the filming of Schindler's List (and they both released the same year). During the day Spielberg would be directing Schindler's List, then in the evening he would be overseeing the effects for the dinosaurs.

[@markhoward408]

I watched this back in the mid 90s when I was in my late 20s. It took me 2 days to get through and I was an emotional wreck at the end of it, genuinely physically and emotionally exhausted. I've never seen this movie again aside from the occasional reaction like this, I also know I can never watch it again. I also think it should be compulsory viewing in schools. It's horrific, yes, but that's rather the point. It's my intention to force myself to sit through this twice more, when I sit with my children to watch it when they're old enough. Love to all.

[@Pete-p4l]

Great reaction to a tough but necessary film. I couldn't tell if you caught it or not but each of the people passing Schindler's grave at the end were accompanied by the actors who portrayed them in the film

[@LlamaLlamaMamaJamaac]

The awful thing is the reality was SO MUCH WORSE. It looks like it was made in the 1990s but CourtTV did a docuseries about the Nuremberg tribunal, that included some of the hours of archival footage The level of emaciation was what can only be compared to the famines in East Africa that made global news in the mid 1980s and early 1990s. The pile of bodies they showed on Band of Brothers was a fraction of the size of real ones. Sometimes “shower supplies” ran out. And apparently they had a schedule to keep. Processes were adjusted. I won’t say more. Once you know, you cannot un-know. And these comments sections always say that Amon Goeth’s depravity was downplayed in this film…. THEY ARE RIGHT. Again, once you know you cannot un-know. He mentions the eyes being windows to the soul… Ralph Fiennes did a MASTERFUL job making his eyes dead. Amon Goeth didn’t HAVE a soul.

[@2psycho888]

If anybody dont get emotional or break down watchin this u dont got a soul. Beautiful reaction ❤

[@Floridad25]

Oh and btw if you're looking for a similar movie with similar themes but a Much Happier Ending, watch (or put in your polls) Hacksaw Ridge, with Andrew Garfield, Hugo Weaving (giving the most incredible performance of his life) and A Surprising Cast Choice (who was beaten only by Hugo Weaving's EYES for best performance) No spoilers.......except this one and I don't think it counts......but the main theme in both movies is "One More"

[@Oldbutnotout65]

We must NEVER forget!!!

[@bethhowton2719]

Thank you for reacting to this film I believe every grown up should watch this at least once to get a small grasp of what happened. There are closer to 10,000 descendants now. Thanks

[@jlerrickson]

Spielberg does something in this film that I really appreciate: every time that Schindler really extends himself to deliberately save someone, the film shows people that weren't saved. The various genocide watch groups show roughly 6 or 7 ongoing genocides as of today. Indeed, history may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

[@joshuawebb5891]

The real Helen Hirsch said the "hand of 21" scene actually happened

[@pamalter]

Thank you for watching such an important movie. Despite how horrific it is, it is truly a masterpiece of a film. Everyone should watch at least once.

[@Redladyrae03]

I watched this movie when it was aired unedited on NBC shortly after its release. I was 8. I still cry when watching this because it's so horrible to know what so many people went through.My mom went through the extra effort of explaining everything and helping us navigate our emotions so we wouldn't continue a cycle of hate and becoming like the thing we despise. I was 16 when 9/11 happened. I will never forget how life changed that day. I talk about the hard parts of history with my kid so he knows how not to repeat it and to be a good person. You were so right when you said we need to go to these historic sites and keep ups on our history so we don't forget things like this. The people who suffered. So much about WWII is not fully known, but there were so many other sects who suffered tremendously at the hands of the Nazis and their allies. Thank you for sharing your reaction with us.

[@jorgeantoniotorrespadilla839]

Great reaction, great understanding, analysis and feelings

[@SweetSchnubbl]

Spielberg nerver dared to show, how sadistic Göth really was as its way beyond imagination. But his granddaughter is black🎉 Wrote a book after she had found out called: my grandfather would have shot me Her name is Jennifer Teege and she used to spend quite some time in Israel, even before she knew about her grandpa... Really interesting 😊

[@Usandthem31]

There's also a video of an interview of his daughter on yt

[@SweetSchnubbl]

@Usandthem31 ya, i know, she is a beautiful person...inside and outside 😊

[@meganwilliams7434]

Him: I can’t get a read on this guy yet. Me: you will in a minute..

[@QingWeiSanguine]

When I saw this in school ( Swedish school ) I could keep my tears back, but I think this is super important for most people to see

[@Dej24601]

Human hair was used as stuffing in mattresses, seat cushions and sometimes inside fabric used as military jackets/coats for cold weather. It also was woven into a felt-like fabric which had multiple uses, including as floor coverings. Women often grew their hair long in those times, so there was a lot available.

[@chiasanzes9770]

Their heads got shaved because the lice this has been is told by the survives. Nazies were afraid of diseases spread in camps. I 've read two biographies from hologaust survivors.

[@KittenUndercover]

They initially cut their hair because they assumed they were dirty and had lice.

[@Floridad25]

(whups, deleted my own comment) I had the privilege to tour Dachau a few years back. Actually quite more than a few, it's been more like 20 years....and that's far back enough that I only have spotty memories of what I actually saw. But I think that was because what I FELT was so powerful that it pushed out everything else. I remember that very vividly, and can call it to mind with no difficulty. There must have been a few hundred people there (calling them tourists just feels wrong) including couples with small children. Plus my group. And no one was talking. It was completely silent other than the sound of shoes crunching on gravel paths. Now I have never, nor will I ever believe in the supernatural, be it religion or superstition. But there was something about the air in that place that I don't have an explanation for. It was like the air was so heavy it pressed down on my head and shoulders like a physical weight. It was hard to breathe. And I know that i'm not the only one who has experienced this phenomenon. It is hard to describe how it affected me but as best I could ever define, it felt like the weight of memory. This was not the place for banal chatter. This was hallowed ground and commands our respect as such. The people that lost their lives here deserve to be acknowledged and remembered lest they become lost and forgotten by time. I believe that no matter how loud or soft, we bear the responsibility to give our voices for those whose voices were silenced so terribly.

[@LlamaLlamaMamaJamaac]

My dad was stationed in Germany with the USAF, and my parents visited Dachau in I think 1991. They described a similar feeling

[@Floridad25]

​@LlamaLlamaMamaJamaac yeah it's definitely not an isolated thing

[@Krampus676]

Heavy genuine reaction, not easy. Thanks man. The memory is not easy, but important, just like you said in the post-reaction. Very important, Mark Twain was correct.

[@Geffi01]

For your question Oscar Schindler was buried on the Mount Zion Cemetery in Jerusalem.

[@pensodunquesono]

Bellissima reaction, molto toccante ed equilibrata... Film strepitoso... un abbraccio dall'Italia :)

[@romanlovera427]

This, personally, is one of those films that I can only watch once. It’s so powerful and raw that it really draws the anger out of you, but it’s that sad anger. The kind where you can only watch and not do anything to intervene. Everyone should see this at least once, if not for the historical factor then do it for the human factor. See how low and how high humanity can go. What we’re willing to do to survive and what we’re willing to do to save a life. How humanity is capable of doing so much good and how we have the capacity to do unimaginable evil to the planet, to others, to ourselves.

[@kpuzzler50]

The guards at the camp and those killing were often drunk.

[@kevind4850]

Characters in this film and some plot points are often composites of several real people and real events (in order to simplify the story to fit into a movie runtime). So Stern is a composite of several people (including the real Stern), but Stern himself didn't actually help make the list, and Schindler at the time was again in custody (this time for an investigation into corruption allegations). So, no, although Schindler wanted to move "his people" to a new factory to avoid having to retrain new workers, he very, very likely didn't know all their names. He also wanted able workers, so always got them some extra food (Nazi policy was to work and starve Jewish laborers to death - and kill any who had no needed skills). By this time, Schindler had begun to see them as actual people, and Stern was instrumental in that. Even though he had to simplify events, Spielberg did a masterful job of getting the reality across - though extremely toned-down so that it would be watchable. Mrs. Schindler didn't divorce Oskar because as Catholics, that would have been nearly impossible during that era. Many years later, abandoned by him in Argentina, she eventually did, however. Oskar was sustained by those who he rescued. They made sure he was buried in Jerusalem as he wished, which was the one place he felt honored and respected for the one good thing he had done with his life. The Nazis normalized evil, and everyday people ended up cooperating with and/or participating horrible atrocities that most would have thought unthinkable a decade or two earlier. Yes, it is a difficult watch, and necessary. Good reaction, questioning, and comments.

[@michaelvincent4280]

I was given charge over an item that was liberated from the War by a neighbor when I was 13. He knew I would take care of it as I had such an interest about the war, and to remember what this flag's history was. I still have it in pristine condition as I have rarely shown it to anyone. When I do their reaction is horror and disgust and that I should destroy it right away. I explain to them that I will when the time comes, but only after people stop reacting to it like that. When that happens this evil will return worse than before.

[@jonathanharvey4678]

This is a brilliant reaction. ❤🔥❤

[@Favorites3827]

Thank you for your heartfelt reaction. How devastating that "never again" is happening again, and Jews are still being hunted. Some things never change…

[@mark37724]

This is such a difficult film to watch. It is a masterpiece from every metric, yet the realism of inhumanity is almost unbearable, especially in current times when we are seeing a resurgence worldwide of tribalism and intolerance. It is rumoured that the portrayal of Amon Göth was toned down to give him some semblance of being human. His granddaughter, Jennifer Teege, a bi-racial woman, wrote a book once she discovered her heritage titled "My Grandfather would have Shot me". Great and timely reaction.

[@jacobbowser1158]

There is a major significance to where Oskar Schindler is buried. For his heroism, Oskar Schindler is one of the few to be buried not just in Jerusalem, but on Mount Zion no less.

[@KittenUndercover]

They initially cut everyone’s hair because they assumed they were dirty and had lice. It ended up being used in various other ways.

[@hennakettunen8755]

You're the first reactor I've seen to recognise Schindler is actually walking among the Jewish women, clearly not regarding them as rats. ❤ 35:01 35:01

[@robertwong4060]

The women's hair was used to make socks for German U-boat (submarine) crews.

[@cog4life]

Excellent reaction, young man.

[@kpuzzler50]

Robin Williams was brought on set, to help cheer up the actors.

[@KittenUndercover]

No he wasn’t. He called them.

[@kathramsay1569]

Spielberg took no money for this, he said it would be blood money. ❤❤

[@coxmosia1]

Now check out the Pianist and Come and See.

[@room22-1]

Remember this, and keep your guard, in the coming months.

[@JuniorWilliams-iv9zp]

I know,can't explain same time awesome ❤Farley sad beautiful Reaction 🎉❤

[@Masq1980]

I agree completely with you on the point of this movie needs to be seen. Everyone needs to see this all over the world. It makes me sad to think about how many people in the world have such hate harboring in their hearts towards others. I wonder if human kind can ever rise above that kind of thing. It's scary seeing these last few years in the US as someone who is within the LGBTQIA. It feels scarily like those times.

[@Aaron-io8vw]

He is buried on Mount Zion in Jerusalem in israel in a catholic cemetery located close to King David's tomb and about a 8 minute walk from the Temple mount where the ancient Jewish temple was located till the roman destroyed it in the year 70 AD. So he was buried near the as possible to the holiest places of his own religion(Christianity) and that of the people he saved(Jews)

[@simoliz03]

We must never forget! 🙏

[@foolsgold9993]

"Allowed to smile in pictures"?? People COULD smile in pictures. It simply took too long to take a picture and smiling for long minutes is just too hard.

[@cubanosamuraia4031]

In fact reallity was so much bad , there where body's haging in post's of Plazow camp , and all the tales off people that Schlinder's safe from Amon Goht where real

[@hasicazulatv2078]

Ive been to the holocaust museum as well, it was so sad to see the shoes and glasses, even one of the fences was there i felt a small vibration when i touched it. This movie is such a masterpiece

[@hasicazulatv2078]

17:33 the girl in red is representing innocence.

[@Saranda4787]

History doesn't repeat itself. We repeat history.

[@alenkad8954]

Society of the Snow, please. True story ❤🇺🇾. Thank you ❤

[@simonbar-el4094]

מי שהציל נפש אחת כאילו הציל עולם ומלואו Whom who saved a single soul as if he saved the world entire

[@cog4life]

War is indeed hell for both sides. But this kind of deliberate evil barbarism against a people, is unphathomable. 😢 I agree that The Green Mile nor Shawshank came close. God help us to never let evil like this go unchecked ever again. 😢

[@thetalkingopher17]

I like how you made so many small jokes to distract yourself from how awful the events in this movie were.😂

[@hmm-technikOrganizacjiReklamy]

Schindler's story is a story that gives hope. most people just cry, I come from Poland and almost everyone here knows what happened in our lands. We had death machines like: Sobiór, Treblinka, Majdanek, Oświęcim. The film does not accurately present true stories with minor changes. these changes had to be made otherwise the film would have lasted 4 days. It's impossible to show 5 years from the perspective of so many people. There are real testimonies on KZbin. look for the Bau Page family and many others. Schindler was both better and worse. better because he brought excellent food to his camp in Poland. it was worse in the Czech Republic because it was the end of the war and there was a shortage of everything. worse because it was he who brought the uniforms of Poles who were supposed to attack the German station. Together with his wife, he saved about 100 people who were almost frozen and starved. Mrs. Emily took care of them with the help of doctors. she was a great woman too.

[@bobsacamano4372]

You should watch a film called THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI.

[@pliny8308]

You sure you didn't see it befre? Anyway, he's not doing anything "to" you. He's showing you exactly what those women had to endure. Because they were in relatiely good shape they were showered, hair cut, would become laborers in sub-camps, where they'd last maybe four months.

[@Sunlight_Oplyser]

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[@JuniorWilliams-iv9zp]

💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝

[@amyanderson4308]

The little girl in the red coat was murdered. You see her coat thrown on top of the pile of confiscated garmets. Sorry you didn't pick up on it.

[@jimstanley_49]

No, you see it on her on the way to being burned after Schindler notices the ash on his car.

[@amyanderson4308]

@jimstanley_49 You're right. Thank you for the correction.

[@matthewgriffin7857]

Do you know what the Japanese did to civilians?? This guy is a fool

[@th3boogyman802]

when the gun didnt go off and he kept trying to shoot him it was because this was the start of schindler destroying ammo goeth got a hold of the first batch of ammo that didn't work as a matter of fact some ammo back then from schindler caused guns to explode in certain situations

[@daedalron]

No. Schindler was making artillery shells, not gun ammunition. The guns missfiring was just due to poor quality guns being issued to people not on the frontline, plus the slacking of those people who don't have to fight anybody, so they were slacking on their gun maintenance.

[@jeffchapman6016]

I get the feeling, and I definitely hope I'm wrong, that the US is currently in it's own 1930's Germany form, and Mexicans are the new Jews. Hitler had such an overwhelming cultish following, much like our soon to be President.

[@sspdirect02]

This is Steven Spielberg's Best Film. Nothing has ever come close.

[@marysunshine2498]

You are such an intelligent young man.. Please visit Israel, and learn the truth, facts and history of the current war on the Jewish people. The Jew hatred shown in this movie has returned. And the world is silent.

[@sirhoopalot1]

Is this the over-reactor channel? This is like watching a wannabe actor acting out a reaction.

[@marcobenvenuto9144]

yeah but Israel is using those movies to commit genocide in Palestine.

[@Kindnessloveunderstanding]

Bullsh-*t. Gaza’s population has grown since the beginning of the war. But they’re using “genocide” as a way to get the world to hate and want to k*ll Jews. They learned from Goebbels’ propaganda mistakes and are very calculated.