Reading Logs 5

Title: Schindler's List
Author: Thomas Keneally
Text Type: Book
Date: 18/09/17

In the book "Schindler's List" by Thomas Keneally, Tells a story of how a rich businessman at the start hated and had no care for jews. Then once he sees what is happening to the jews in the ghetto he feels really bad and changes his mind. He starting hiring all these jew to work in his factory and ends up saving over 1,100 jews.

This book gave me an insight into the world back then in world war two and the Holocaust. For example, when Oskar Schindler is walking through the town where everyone lives but all there is are dead bodies, people hiding and nazi people walking around with guns. The author does this to show what is happening during World War 2 and the Holocaust were all the Jews are dying, hiding their kids and themselves from all the nazi with guns and the gas chambers. When Schindler joined the Nazi party and sees what they were doing where they were exterminating the Jews and gassing them, he started to hire all the jews to give them money and a new life and saved them from death and the gas chamber. He sends up saving over 1,100 jews.

This is relevant in today's society because in the novel when he is looking at the town that is destroyed and dead body's everywhere and people hiding to save there and there kids life. It shows what it was like back then in world war 2, with Jews and everything with hitler and how racist he was. For example during the Holocaust they killed innocent Jews and their family's. This shows us how greatful we should be here in New Zealand, and in our world today. Although  we have terrorists attacks they are nothing compared to the 6 million Jews that were killed in the Holocaust. In the novel they talk about Schindler seeing  the gas chambers and the Jews lining up to be executed and this show what it was like and how Germany affected the world back then.