Itzhak Stern

Oskar Schindler was a war hero who saved many Jews during the Holocaust, giving many of them a second chance at life. Oskar Schindler was born April 28, 1908 in Svitavy, which is in present-day Czech Republic. He started out as part of the Nazi party. In 1939 him and his family traveled to Krakow and got involved in the black market. He opened a factory that made German war goods and employed Polish Jews. these weren't his intentions at first but many jews were saved from concentration camps. He called it the Deutsche Emaillewaren-Fabrik, German Enamelware Factory. He started off with 45 Jews but Itzhak Stern, a Jewish accountant helped him get more. By 1944 1700 workers were employed. He ended up saving around 1200 of them. His workers were known as Schindlerjuden, or Schindler Jews. they were hired as cheap labor at first but he then started to hire more to save them. In 1942 half of his workers were Jewish. Whenever the Jews were threatened to be taken to labor labor camps schindler would convince the officers they were well needed and would even bribe them. For example in 1943 the Plaszow concentration camp was opened up. In 1944 they sent all of the people to a death camp. This made Schindler write a list of all 1,000…

greedy and self-centered philanderer. He constantly cheated on his wife, Emilie, with other women and didn’t even bother to think about how she felt about it. When she asked him to stop seeing other women, he couldn’t agree to it, so he sent her off on a train. When a Jewish woman who worked at his factory made him a cake for his birthday, he kissed her out of the blue and got arrested for it. Oskar hired multiple female secretaries for his business based on their looks and not for their typing…

Stern acts as Schindler’s conscience and in turn, He is the real hero. The film ‘Schindler’s List’ is a true story based on a German businessman with the name of Oskar Schindler. During World War II Schindler saved over 1000 jews from near death during the Holocaust. The film is based in Israel and Poland, Liam Neeson plays the hardcore role of Oskar Schindler and Ben Kingsley plays the inspiring part of Itzhak Stern. Stern acts as Schindler’s conscience and therefore both Stern and Schindler…

One-And-Done: Age Discrimination “What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player” (Korman). The purpose of basketball is not just to be the best and have the most titles; it should be meant for players to develop integrity and try to set an example for the next generation. But all these characteristics that develop as an athlete progresses are not acquired through college basketball. Former NBA Commissioner David Stern, championed “Article…

release three version of the test before his death, but the 1908 verison would contain measure of someone IQ. The test would be different for each age and would use the result of the test to determined mental age and subtract the mental age from they actually age. The formula would give Binet how far behind a student was and that student would be put into special education. Binet unlike his colleague before him, did not use this way of testing to rank the best student to the worst student. The…

freshmen: bottom of the food chain; inexperienced; grunt work monkeys et cetera. You get the idea. We started as freshmen here at NYU and have grinded our way to the top of the food chain as graduating seniors. We have learned about ourselves in the process, but have also been influenced by our environment to think a certain way and believe certain things. I want to take a step back. I want to take this moment with you all to detach and reflect on my experience at Stern, and how it has shaped…

1. Who are the three main characters and the most important subordinate characters? Oskar Schindler, Itzhak Stern, Amon Goeth was the 3 main characters. Helen Hirsch, Julian Scherner, Herman Toffel are some of the subordinate characters. 2. Make a character analysis of the main characters. Oskar Schindler is a Nazis. He moves to Poland, to starts his own factory. He meets this Jew, who helps him find contacts, and workers to his new factory. At first he doesn’t like the jews, but in the end…

the Jews occurs when Schindler becomes enraged at the Nazis who shot his one-armed machinist. Moments ago, we saw Schindler quite upset at the worker for coming to thank him for saving him, but now Schindler is upset at his death, demanding replacements. This quick change in Schindler’s personality hints at a possible shift in his opinion on the Jews. Another event that seemed to influence Schindler towards rescue was witnessing the deportation from the Krakow ghetto, especially when he sees the…

The central theme of Schindler’s List is that you cannot judge a person based on their ethnicity, religion, or anything other than who they are as an individual. Getting to know a person can completely change your perspective on who they are. The Nazis grouped all Jews into the same group of “inferior” people, but made no effort at all to distinguish each individual from one another. They assumed that all Jews were evil, and that their extermination would be beneficial to the rest of the world.…

been confiscated from the original Jewish owners and was given an apartment appropriated from wealthy Jews. Schindler felt no regret and did not consider where his good fortune came from. Schindler, was initially concerned only about himself and the successfulness of his money making system. He undergoes a change that encourages him to save the lives of the Jews to spend his fortune. Schindler’s plan was never completely clear. He could not sit by and watch innocent people he knew to be killed…