In Schindlers list, the little girl wears a red coat. what things does Red represent?
It’s from a story Spielberg heard from all holocaust survivors that when they were violently taken out of the ghetto’s, most of them remember seeing a little girl in a red coat walking along as if nothing was out of sorts. It’s his way of saying that even when the worst things happen you remember the strangest things.
I have read that book twice now, I think the significance is to illustrate the true horror of what is going on all around the little girl. She is just a little girl wearing a red coat, and she does, to a great degree, seem oblivious to what’s happening around her. In the movie this doesn’t really work. I saw the movie too, and it doesn’t really come across in the movie. It doesn’t work. You really should read the book. The true, cold blooded horror only comes across in the book. I went further and did some research. I was amazed to find out that Amon Goeth was a real person. All his atrocities were real. Everything. So was Diana Reiter a real person ( the Jewish Civil engineer who is executed for complaining that the concrete foundations weren’t correct). She was a real person. A living, real person who just happened to be Jewish. I had nightmares about that scene for days afterwards.
From IMDB “The little girl’s jacket is red so that she stands out from the masses. When color is used, it makes a point and an impression. And Schindler´s soul is touched by the child, he feels her pain, cries for her. The plight of the one little girl in red touches him in a way the shear numbers make unreal, it is easy to get lost in numbers. He transforms the faceless mass around him into one real palpable human being. This one child is a symbol of all the 6.000.000 victims, exposed to ruthless slaughter. The little girl in the red coat footage gives a feeling of hope. You think that she may be able to get away, that she has a chance.” The girl in red is also alluded to in the book, and was called “Genia.” She was brought to the ghetto by a Polish couple, who had been looking after her for her parents, who were hiding out in the countryside — but had planned to head for the ghetto themselves. She was delivered to the Dresners, as her mother was the first cousin of Mrs Dresner. She’
