Mmmmm. This was in a very different vein from everything else I read for this project. For one thing, as previously mentioned, the subject matter was a lot heavier than everything else I've picked up.
I think it would be very interesting to watch the movie and be able to compare it with the book. I already know that the girl in the red outfit played different roles in the two versions of the story, although she was a strong crystallizing factor for Oskar Schindler in both mediums. In the book, the shock was the juxtaposition of the toddler in the red coat, and the SS officer's paternal guiding hand keeping her at the end of the line, against the horrific murders taking place at the other end of the street, and the realization that no one cared if she saw these crimes taking place because they did not intend to leave her alive to tell anyone about the atrocity she had witnessed in any case.
In Steven Spielberg's movie version, from what bits and pieces I know of the plot, Oskar Schindler sees the little girl waiting at the train station to be loaded into the cattle cars, and notices her in particular because of her bright red coat, which stands out to the audience because it is the only color in the film. Then later, Schindler finds the little girl in a pile of bodies to be disposed of, presumably by burning, and recognizes the coat, and this is his motivation to save as many people as possible.
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