2-23-18 ASSIGNMENT:
1.) Read the New York Times review of Steven Spielberg's movie Schindler's List
Note: Oskar Schindler's wife Emilie Schindler wrote a memoir in 1997. In the prologue she writes, "Steven Spielberg's film, Thomas Keneally's book, and all the rivers of ink spilled fifty years after the facts depict my husband as a hero for this century. This is not true. He was not a hero, and neither was I. We only did what we had to. In times of war our souls wander aimlessly adrift. I was one of those fleeting shadows affected by atrocity, by all its misery and vehemence, suspicion and contradiction, which have left an indelible mark in my memory. It's all here ..."
2.) Read the below excerpt from Emilie Schindler's memoir "Where Light and Shadow Meet" (start at page 43)
3.) When you are finished, go to the English 12 Discussion Thread. Click Here.