Girl in the red coat

Oskar Schindler was arrested twice. The first time was not clear of what he was arrested for. His second arrest was for breaking provisions of the race and resettlement act. Oskar Schindler kissed a Jewish girl, and was thought of as a "Jew kisser." The horrors of the Holocaust become more real as you read more in depth in the book. Thomas Keneally goes into detail about the different type of killings in different labor camps.  All children who went to Tarnow were shot, to Stutthof were drowned, to Breslau were to be operated on, and if you were elderly you would be sent to into a room filled with gas. One specific detail in this book that caught my attention, was Oskar Schindler's fascination with a little girl in a red coat. He talks about this little girl with the red coat as if she was conspicuous. This little girl in the red coat would haunt Oskar for the rest of his life.

Movement into ghettos

Further into the book, Thomas Keneally talks about the movement of Jewish people into ghettos  I thought that this was a turning point in the book. Oskar Schindler hired Jewish people to work in his factory, he told them "if you work here, you will survive the war." Many people believed Herr Schindler's words. Thomas Keneally continues to talk about the cruelty of Nazi Germany. In detail, he describes the propaganda that was placed on the streets and the conditions of the ghettos. The conditions that the SS soldiers forced the jewish people to live in were contemptible.

Synagogue

The book Schindler's list opens up in the Autumn of 1943, it describes Oskar Schindler as a tall, classy man with strong features. The first three chapters of Schindler's list by Thomas Keneally were monotonous. They seemed to drag on, and were not interesting to me. I felt that the first three chapters could have ended sooner. Thomas Keneally seemed to drag on about subjects that had little affect to the story. The book started to change in the fourth chapter, it began to talk about the cruelty of the Nazi soldiers. At the end of the chapter, Thomas Keneally talks about the Nazi's going into a  synagogue during prayer, making the Jewish people spit on a Torah, and when Max Redlicht refused to spit on the Torah, the Nazi's shot him and the rest of the people. Thomas Keneally makes it clear that Oskar Schindler does not share the same thoughts or views of the Jewish race as the Nazi's do.