The Krakow Ghetto was one of five major, metropolitan Jewish ghettos created by Nazi Germany in the new General Government territory during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. It was created for the purpose of exploitation, terror, and persecution of local Polish Jews, as well as the staging area for separating the "able workers" from those who would later be deemed unworthy of life. The Ghetto was liquidated between June 1942 and March 1943, with most of its inhabitants sent to Belzec extermination camp and Plaszow slave-labor camp, and exterminated also at Auschwitz concentration camp. Notable people in the Krakow Ghetto: Roman Polanski, movie director, a survivor of the Ghetto Roma Ligocka, Polish artist and author, and a first cousin to Roman Polanski Mordechai Gebirtig, one of the most influential and popular writers of Yiddish songs and poems,he died there in 1942 Miriam Akavia, an Israeli writer, survived the Kraków ghetto and concentration camps Dr Jim (Jacob) Baral, renowned dermatologist and co-discoverer of Reyes Syndrome Bernard Offen, born in 1929 in Kraków survived the Ghetto and several Nazi concentration camps. Movie Info: Titel: "Schindler's List" This video contains music composed by Max Richter ("Last Days") Plot: Based on a true story, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List stars Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazis' rise to power. He starts a company to make cookware and utensils, using flattery and bribes to win military contracts, and brings in accountant and financier Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley) to help run the factory. By staffing his plant with Jews who've been herded into Krakow's ghetto by Nazi troops, Schindler has a dependable unpaid labor force. For Stern, a job in a war-related plant could mean survival for himself and the other Jews working for Schindler. However, in 1942, all of Krakow's Jews are assigned to the Plaszow Forced Labor Camp, overseen by Commandant Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes), an embittered alcoholic who occasionally shoots prisoners from his balcony. Schindler arranges to continue using Polish Jews in his plant, but, as he sees what is happening to his employees, he begins to develop a conscience. He realizes that his factory (now refitted to manufacture ammunition) is the only thing preventing his staff from being shipped to the death camps. Soon Schindler demands more workers and starts bribing Nazi leaders to keep Jews on his employee lists and out of the camps. By the time Germany falls to the allies, Schindler has lost his entire fortune -- and saved 1,100 people from likely death. Schindler's List was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won seven, including Best Picture and a long-coveted Best Director for Spielberg, and it quickly gained praise as one of the finest American movies about the Holocaust. Directed by: Steven Spielberg Produced by: Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, Branko Lustig Written by: Steven Zaillian Based on: "Schindler's Ark" by Thomas Keneally Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall Music by: John Williams Cinematography: Janusz Kamiński Editing by: Michael Kahn Production Co: Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment Country: United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Poland Language: English | Hebrew | German | Polish I French Also Known As: "Lista Schindlera" Filming Locations: Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland Release date(s): November 30, 1993 (Washington, D.C.) December 15, 1993 (United States) Running time 195 minutes

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