1 / 14

THE POWER OF VISUAL HISTORY

THE POWER OF VISUAL HISTORY. View Schools Film Montage . From the montage:. What could you work out from the film? Which clips stood out to you?. Why was Schindler’s List made?. How reliable is Schindler’s List as a historical source?.

zeheb
Download Presentation

THE POWER OF VISUAL HISTORY

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. THE POWER OF VISUAL HISTORY

  2. View Schools Film Montage

  3. From the montage: What could you work out from the film? Which clips stood out to you?

  4. Why was Schindler’s List made?

  5. How reliable is Schindler’s List as a historical source?

  6. Schindler’s List tells us about the Holocaust through the story of one person Why do you think Steven Spielberg chose to focus on the story of Oskar Schindler? Is it helpful or unhelpful to us in understanding what happened during the Holocaust?

  7. “(the story of Oskar Schindler) … provides an avenue into a subject that is too horrendous for words, let alone for pictures” Steven Spielberg, 1993 Do you agree that learning about the Holocaust through the story of one person helps the viewer to understand?

  8. Was Oskar Schindler a hero? • Because of the actions that he took, over 1,100 people survived the Holocaust • He moved hundreds of his workers to Czechoslovakia where they were safer • He put himself in danger by taking action to protect his workers • He treated his workers with respect, providing food, healthcare and allowing people to practice their religion • Many of his former workers consider him to be a hero

  9. Was Oskar Schindler a hero? • Schindler joined the Nazi party in 1939 • He was a womanizer and a playboy • One biographer claims that he helped the Nazi party to plan the invasion of Poland • He worked as a Nazi spy • Several of the lists were not written by Schindler, but by Marcel Goldberg, a corrupt Jewish member of the security police

  10. How can we make sense of this?Does it mean that Schindler was not really a hero?

  11. The power of visual history ‘The children’‘The children wave goodbye’

  12. Which of these clips is most helpful to an historian?

  13. The voices of survivors Stephen Spielberg used the money made from Schindler’s list to set up the Shoah Foundation, which works to educate people about the Holocaust and atrocities that have happened in other countries. They have collected over 52,000 films of survivors speaking about their experiences. You can see the clips here http://sfi.usc.edu/clipviewer/

  14. Why are these films important?

More Related