Re: Schindler's List

[Mary Ellen Scribner <scribner@TENET.EDU>]

Well said, Sarah!  I have now seen Schindler's List three times--to
preview and then twice with students, and it is more affecting each time.
However, it does not come close to the captured Nazi films which I saw in
Warsaw many years ago.  When I could bear no more, I closed my eyes and
covered my ears.  It seems to me that is what those who decry such films
and books as Schindler's List on the grounds of nudity, profanity, etc. are
closing eyes, ears, and minds to the total horror of the Holocaust and
the history leading to it.

Mary Ellen Scribner, Librarian                  512 464-4033
Westwood High School, Round Rock ISD            512 464-4020 (FAX)
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On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Sarah Noell Rathbun wrote:

> I saw Schindler's List when it first came out and read the book.  I could
> not watch the movie again. Why?  It was so well done.  I do not feel the
> atrocities of the period were even touched upon.  I do not want a
> sanitized version of the WWII events of Nazi Germany.  While I think I
> would not be able to watch the movie again, I realize this is only a
> fracti9on of what really happened.  We need to know this.  OUR CHILDREN
> NEED TO KNOW THIS.  The nudiity and  violence were necessary.  Lest we
> forget.  sally
>