is undoubtedly one of the most outstanding productions in Steven Spielberg’s directorial achievements. The work, which won seven Oscars, tells the story of German entrepreneur Oskar Schindler, who saved approximately 1,100 Jews from extermination camps. Although the film is not a documentary, its script was mostly inspired by real events.
Niusia from “Schindler’s List”. It was her story that Spielberg showed in his Oscar-winning film
One of the most moving is the one in which Schindler’s factory workers prepare a bread cake for his 36th birthday. The youngest of them, Niusia, hands it to him, and as a gesture of gratitude, he gives her a kiss on the cheek. News of this incident quickly reaches the Nazis, and the 12-year-old is imprisoned as punishment. Few people know that this situation really happened, and that its heroine was Bronisława “Niusia” Horowiz-Karakulska, who is one of the few people still alive, saved by a factory owner from Heaven, awarded the title of “Righteous Among the Nations”.
As she admitted in an interview with , she got on the list thanks to her father, who was the manager at KL Płaszów. – Dad knew Schindler from the law firm where he worked as an accountant. My uncles also knew him, she said. Her stay at the factory was not without trauma, however, because once, when Schindler decided to move the plant to Brünnlitz in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, she found herself in one of the wagons that was mistakenly sent to . – However, I don’t have a camp number. When it was tattooed, my mother sucked out the ink, she recalled, adding that she was in the gas chamber twice and was close to death. – Miraculously, I survived, I managed to avoid the gas chamber twice. Finally, I was saved again by Schindler, who got some of his workers out of the camp, she said.
He is one of the last living people saved by Schindler. Horowitz-Karakulska talked about meeting Spielberg
80 years after these events, Bronisława Horowiz-Karakulska gave an interview to the creators of the History Hiking channel on YouTube, in which she revealed that she had the opportunity to personally tell her story to Spielberg. This happened thanks to Franciszek Palowski from Krakow’s “Kronika”, who as soon as he found out about the start of filming, decided to take her to the set. However, the experience was not easy for her, and the staging immediately brought back a series of painful memories. – I literally felt sick – the moment when she saw motorcycles with trailers and actors dressed as German soldiers standing on the Main Square.
At one point she even wanted to withdraw, deciding that the game was not worth the candle, but finally, with the last of her strength, she reached the place where he was. However, she did not expect such a reaction. – I walk up there, shaking, and Spielberg is looking at me. When he jumped into my arms, he almost broke my glasses on my chest. He was so happy that I showed up there. He knew who I was, she said. She emphasized that the director immediately took care of her and made sure she felt comfortable. After the emotions subsided, they had a long, exhausting conversation during which he asked her many detailed questions. According to Horowitz-Karakulska, most of them were later used in the film.
Source: Gazeta
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