Where was the ghetto located in the film "Schindler's List"?

In the 1993 film "Schindler's List", the ghetto is located in Kraków. In this local area during World War II, the Germans forced local Polish Jews into the overcrowded Kraków Ghetto. Oskar Schindler, an ethnic German, arrives in the city hoping to make his fortune. A member of the Nazi Party, Schindler lavishes bribes on Wehrmacht (German armed forces), SS officials, and others. He is able to acquire a factory to produce enamelware.

With this movie, Liam Neeson stars as Oskar Schindler. He is one greedy German factory owner made rich by exploiting cheap Jewish labor. As World War II unfolds, he becomes an unlikely humanitarian who uses his entire fortune to help save 1,100 Jews from Auschwitz. He saves many people that he once employed in his factory.

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Spike Holmes

I sobbed, like a child, as I watched the film, - and, even MORE so, when I did more research, on the subject

John Grubb

He did the right thing!! Bravo!!

Chandran David

A laudable hero !

Denise Currie

Visited Krakow last year, very beautiful place with a tragic history

Denise Currie

If only a few more people had took the same stance as this great man, maybe history would have been different. So many countries as well as individuals turned a blind eye to what was actually happening in Poland until it was too late

Lynne Cohen

The history of the Jews is littered with tragic stories but none so tragic as the Holocaust. I visited the factory where the lists of who he would save were written. He is buried in buried in Jerusalem on Mount Zion, the only member of the Nazi party to be so honored. He saved more than 1200 lives. May his memory be a blessing.

Sue Leonard Wulfestieg

Patty K, until he very end when they switch to color, and show many of the actual people who were saved by Schindler.

Elsy O. Stromberg

krkyates, I think schools in the Western democracies do. It's common knowledge.

Patty K

The only color in the whole movie is the little girl's red coat; everything else is black and white

Patty K

krkyates, it has gotten to the point that some people think the Holocaust never happened. I can understand wishing it never did happen, but come on! You can't change history! The Diary of Anne Frank has been banned in some schools because it is "too depressing". Using that method of thinking, then the whole subject of history would banned, in my opinion