You have to see it because every once in a while we have to grab each other by the shirt, shake like hell and swear never to let this happen again. Five million Jews were killed by Hitler's Nazi regime. To people my age or younger, it seems distant, maybe even unreal. Of course not. It wasn't even that long ago.
Survivors can still provide firsthand accounts of the horrors.
It is the tale of a womanizing Nazi war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, whose factory became a safe haven for Jews who would otherwise face certain death in Nazi camps. The film masterfully portrays the transformation of Schindler from a man who viewed his Jewish employees as little more than property to one who was willing to completely exhaust his resources, financial and otherwise, to prevent them from being murdered. He is credited with saving 1,100 lives. The film is graphic. If it were fiction, you'd say the violence is gratuitous, overdone.