Steven Spielberg's accuracy of interpretations of the novel "Schindler's Ark", written by Thomas Keneally, which is portrayed through the film.
-One interpretation is the little girl in the red coat. Spielberg himself has talked about the significance of the red coat, the only color in the black and white film, has more to do with reminding viewers of the way citizens of the world allowed the Holocaust to
happen. Spielberg made the little girl stand out because “America and Russia and England all knew about the Holocaust when it was happening, and yet we did nothing about it. We didn’t
assign any of our forces to stopping the march toward death, the inexorable march toward death. It was a large bloodstain, primary red color on everyone’s radar, but no one did anything about it. And that’s why I wanted to bring the color in," said Spielberg.
-One interpretation is the little girl in the red coat. Spielberg himself has talked about the significance of the red coat, the only color in the black and white film, has more to do with reminding viewers of the way citizens of the world allowed the Holocaust to
happen. Spielberg made the little girl stand out because “America and Russia and England all knew about the Holocaust when it was happening, and yet we did nothing about it. We didn’t
assign any of our forces to stopping the march toward death, the inexorable march toward death. It was a large bloodstain, primary red color on everyone’s radar, but no one did anything about it. And that’s why I wanted to bring the color in," said Spielberg.
In this photo you see the image of the little girl in the red coat during the movie. However, the real girl in the red coat was Gittel Chill. Gittel was widely known for always wearing her bright red coat in the Krakow Ghetto. Unfortunately, the little girl is discover and killed, at the age of four, in the ghetto's liquidation. This information is accurately depicted in the film making her presence historically correct.