Schindler's+List+-+Setting

Jewish Population of Europe, 1939.
 * [[image:Jewpop.gif width="488" height="394"]]

//__There are three main settings in the film:__//**
 * Krakow Ghetto
 * Plazow concentration camp
 * Zwittau-Brinnlitz, Czechoslovakia

__**KRAKOW**__ Initially the events from the film are set in Krakow, a small city situated in rural Poland. In September 1939, the German forces defeated the Polish Army in two weeks. Jews were ordered to register all family members and relocate to major cities. More than 10,000 Jews from the countryside arrive in Krakow daily. Jews in Nazi-occupied Krakow were first dispossessed of their businesses and homes, then placed in ghettos and forced labor camps in Plaszow, and finally resettled in concentration camps such as Auschwitz for execution. In April 1944 Goeth is ordered to exhume and incinerate the bodies of more than 10,000 Jews killed at Plazow and the Krakow Ghetto massacre. __**CZECHOSLOVAKIA**__ The last setting of the film is Schindler's factory in his hometown of Zwittau-Brinnlitz. Schindler shelters his workers here in an attempt to protect them from the war and the Nazi regime. It is here that Schindler's workers learn that the war has finally ended and they are to be liberated. Schindler must flee the country as he is officially considered a war criminal.
 * __PLAZOW__**