Schindler's List
A World War II film set in Kraków, depicting events of 1939–1945
Synopsis
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
Historical setting
Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List dramatizes the true story of Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist and Nazi Party member who protected more than a thousand Jewish workers by employing them in his Kraków enamelware factory and later moving them to a munitions plant in Brünnlitz. The film passes through the liquidation of the Kraków ghetto and the Płaszów forced-labor camp commanded by Amon Göth.
Adapted from Thomas Keneally's book Schindler's Ark and shot largely in black and white on location in Kraków, the film won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Spielberg's first win for Best Director. Schindler was later recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.
The events portrayed in Schindler's List take place in 1939–1945, during the Second World War. Explore the same period alongside other films on the WW2 timeline.
