| It is now March 13, 1943, and liquidation of the ghetto takes place. Thousands of
armed German soldiers run wild through the streets of Krakow. Jews are randomly pulled
from their houses and killed. The soldiers violently raid the Jews' homes and steal their
belongings. Many run and hide from the soldiers, but are soon found. Many of the residents
of the ghetto are killed. Only a few live and some of them are taken to Plaszow forced
labor camp. After the horrible day of killing, Oskar reports to the camp. He has lunch
with some of the leading German men. Oskar is very upset; he has no workers anymore
because they were all captured and taken off to the camp. He is allowed to take back most
of his workers to the factory.
Once everybody returns to work, a young lady that wishes for him to hire her parents
visits Oskar. The lady’s parents are at the camp and she is very worried about them.
She feels as that if Oskar hires them they will live. He gets angry with her and says that
he will not hire them, but he does the next week out of kindness.
Several days later at Plaszow the sick Jews are separated from the healthy. The ladies
pricked their fingers and rubbed their own blood on their faces so they would look
healthier. The weak and sick Jews were killed so there would be more room for the new
shipments of Jews arriving at the camp. All of the children were placed on trucks and sent
away. Several of them attempted to hide so they wouldn’t have to leave their family.
Most were unsuccessful.
It is now Oskar’s birthday. He throws a big party with many of his German friends.
Several young Jewish factory workers come to his party to give him a gift. One of the
young girls gives him the gift and in return he kisses her. This is a mistake. He broke
the Race and Resettlement Act by kissing the Jewish girl. Goeth discusses what happened
that night and Oskar apologizes.
In April 1944 Goeth receives orders to exhume and burn the bodies of more than 10,000
Jews killed at Plaszow and the Krakow Massacre. The living Jews at the camp are forced to
recover and burn the dead from a year before. The little girl in the red coat, from
earlier in the movie, is burned.
Evacuation orders are received. All the Jews from Plaszow are being moved to a
different camp to avoid the advancing Russians. But Schindler creates a desperate plan.
Digging deeper into his fortune, he constructs a new factory farther west and bargains
with Goeth to 'buy' all the Jewish workers he will need to staff it. With Stern, he draws
up a list of names, "Schindler's List", consisting of more than 1,100 men, women
and children. He races against time to save them. In the end, through impossible luck and
unyielding determination, Schindler rescues "his Jews" - the Schindlerjuden, as
they will call themselves.
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