Word: holocaust
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Jewish groups, like B'nai Brith, have applauded the movie as an powerful tool for education. And the national media as a whole has given extensive, and valuable, exposure to the movie. In addition, the U.S. Holocaust museum held a ceremony posthumously awarding a Medal of Remembrance to Oskar Schindler. A spokesperson for the museum added that Spielberg's movie "makes a big contribution to American awareness of the Holocaust...
...arbiter of truth in American culture. A review last month in The Forward, a Yiddish newspaper in New York, complained that the movie did not show the gravity of the disaster, and that the movie's uplifting, "happy" ending detracts from the horror of the Nazi Holocaust...
...indeed sad that Americans have come to rely upon Hollywood to bring them the truth. But it is reality. There is no shortage of documentaries and historical research on the Holocaust. If most Americans made use of these materials, then we would not be facing such startling ignorance about the Holocaust, partially fueled by Holocaust deniers posing as legitimate "revisionist" historians...
Educated Americans who are already aware of the Holocaust are not those in need of seeing "Schindler's List." It is the rest of America that needs to be educated, and it is this segment of the population that the film addresses most effectively...
...order to reach his audience, Spielberg had to focus on some of the positive aspects of the Holocaust, namely an exciting story of heroism. But Spielberg does not fabricate anything, and he does not omit anything either. The movie graphically displays mass shootings, the liquidation of a Polish ghetto and the gas chambers at Auschwitz...