Friday, December 30, 2011

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.

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