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0 - 1:09 Credits
1:10 - 2:56 September 1939, Polish Jews arriving in Krakow
  • The German forces defeated Poland in weeks and began to collect the Jews.
  • Jews registered their names and were sent off to Krakow daily.
Thousands of Jews and many German soldiers.
2:57 - 3:55 Schindler's Room
  • Dressing and collecting money
  • He places a Swastika pin on his suit.
Schindler
3:56 - 9:45 Nightclub
  • Party with influential military figures
Schindler

Generals

9:46 - 10:35 Streets of Krakow
  • Soldiers humiliating Jews
  • Schindler walks through waiting crowd
German soldiers

Jews

10:36 - 14:24 Judenrat
  • Schindler meets with Itzhak Stern about buying a factory and hiring the Jews to work for him making pots and pans.
Schindler

Jews

Itzhak Stern

14:25 - 17:01 Church
  • Black market trading
Schindler

traders

17:02 - 21:14 March 20, 1941 Krakow
  • Today is the deadline for the Jewish people to enter Krakow.
  • Edict 44/91 establishes Krakow as a Jewish district.
Thousands of Jewish people traveling to Krakow.
21:15 - 22:20 Schindler's car outside ghetto
  • Stern brings investors to make a deal
Schindler

Stern

investors

22:21 - 24:02 Factory
  • Investors give money to Schindler
  • Stern and Schindler discuss business
Schindler

Stern

Investors

24:03 - 27:39 Ghetto
  • Stern getting important Jews employment with Schindler
Stern

Jews

German soldiers

27:40 - 28:44 Oskar’s factory, D.E.F.
  • Jews learning operation
Jews
28:45 - 30:09 Schindler's office
  • Schindler choosing a secretary
Schindler

women

30:10 - 31:09 Schindler's home
  • Ordering exotic goods
Schindler
31:10 - 32:12 Various
  • Goods are delivered to influential generals
  • Announcing operational status of factory
Generals
32:13 - 32:46 Factory
  • Displaying Success
Schindler

Jews

32:47 - 33:55 Schindler's office
  • Schindler thanks Stern
  • Oskar makes a toast and drinks.
Schindler

Stern

33:56 - 35:14 Schindler's apartment
  • Emile arrives
Schindler

mistress

Emile

35:15 - 38:00 Nightclub
  • Dinner
  • Dance
Schindler

Emile

38:01 - 38:33 Schindler's bed
  • Emile questions Schindler
Schindler

Emile

38:34 - 38:48 Train Station
  • Emile leaves
Schindler

Emile

38:49 - 40:43 Factory
  • Discuss business
  • One armed machinist thanks Schindler for allowing him to work in the factory.
Schindler

Stern

Machinist

40:44 - 41:14 Outside factory
  • Schindler reprimands Stern
Schindler

Stern

41:15 - 43:47 Streets of Krakow
  • Jews to shovel snow
  • Oskar complains
Jews

German soldiers

43:48 - 44:24 Schindler's home
  • In bed with woman
  • Pfefferburg comes with news
Schindler

Pfefferburg

mistress

44:25 - 47:33 Train Station
  • Jews being deported
  • Stern is "on list"
  • Schindler tells the German in charged that there’s been a mistake and that he needs to get a passenger off of the train.
  • Oskar manages to find Itzhak and take him off the train and back to the factory.
Schindler

Stern

German soldiers

47:34 - 49:03 Warehouse
  • Jewish possessions collected
Jews
49:04 - 50:57 Krakow Ghetto winter of 1942.
  • Jews are standing around in the city talking about their horrible lives.
  • Untersturmfuhrer Amon Goeth is introduced. He’s a German leader that is very much against the Jews.
Goeth

Jews

50:58 - 54:39 Plaszow forced labor camp.
  • Goeth arrives, kills engineer
  • Plaskow labor camp is under construction.
  • The Jews are forced to build the camp.
  • Goeth is the German that is in charge of the new concentration camp.
Goeth

Helen Hersch

Jews

soldiers

engineer

54:40 - 54:56 Schindler/Goeth shaving alternately Schindler

Goeth

54:57 - 56:15 Plaszow
  • Goeth talks to the people about how the Jews had flourished over the years and that by nightfall their hard work would be forgotten.
Goeth

soldiers

56:16 - 56:27 Above Krakow - Liquidation of Krakow (Ghetto).
  • Schindler and mistress riding
  • witness massacre
Schindler

mistress

56:28 - 1:12:46 March 13, 1943 - ghetto
  • liquidation
  • German soldiers armed with weapons, march through the town terrorizing the Jewish people.
  • The Jews belongings are stolen and families are killed.
  • Many Jews attempt to hide, and most are found and killed by nightfall.
Jews

German soldiers

12:47 - 13:14 Factory
  • No production
Schindler
13:15 - 16:35 Plaszow
  • Goeth executes at random
Goeth

Jews

16:36 - 21:12 Plaszow/Goeth's villa
  • Oskar comes to Plaszow to have dinner with Goeth and several other German men.
  • After dinner, Oskar talks to Goeth about no longer having any workers at his factory since all of the Jews were either killed or taken to a camp.
  • Goeth agrees to get Oskar’s workers back.
Schindler

Goeth

Other military men

21:13 - 22:37 Factory
  • Jews return to work
Jews
22:38 - 23:17 Goeth's villa
  • Party
Schindler

Goeth

Germans

23:18 - 25:34 Outside Goeth's villa
  • Schindler and Stern discuss business
Schindler

Stern

25:35 - 31:29 Various
  • Stern gives gifts to get Jews jobs at Schindler's factory
Schindler

Stern

Goeth

31:30 - 34:34 Factory
  • Regina Perlman begs for the lives of her parents
Schindler

Regina

34:35 - 37:28 Stern's office
  • Schindler reprimands Stern
  • Asks for the release of the Perlmans
Schindler

Stern

37:29 - 38:04 Outside Factory
  • Regina watches her parent's arrival at the factory
Regina

parents

38:05 - 42:49 Goeth's villa, basement
  • Oskar goes down to the wine cellar and talks to Helen, Goeth’s Jewish maid.
  • Helen tells Oskar about the beatings Goeth had given her.
Schindler

Helen

42:50 - 45:29 Goeth's balcony
  • "Power" discussion
Schindler

Goeth

45:30 - 48:99 Plaszow
  • Goeth seems to display change of heart
Goeth

Stern

Jews

49:00 - 55:11 Various
  • Schindler kissed in nightclub
  • Jewish couple married in camp
  • Goeth shares feelings with Helen, beats her
Schindler

Goeth

Helen

55:12 - 56:23 Schindler's office
  • Schindler's birthday
  • Oskar is given many gifts at the party. One is presented to him by a young Jewish factory worker.
  • Oskar breaks the Race and Resettlement Act when he kisses the young Jewish girl after receiving the gift.
Schindler

Stern

56:24 - 58:09 Barracks at Plaszow
  • stories of gassing
Jews
58:10 - 2:06:17 Plaszow
  • Jews separated - sick/healthy
  • Children driven away in trucks
Jews

Germans

06:18 - 09:44 Train Station
  • Schindler orders that trains be hosed down
  • Germans watch in awe
Schindler

Germans

Stern

Jews

 

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