The disparity between cinematic representation and the past as they remember it prompts some Schindler Jews—including Lore Smith, Harriet Solz, and Sol Urbach—to comment on the film’s form, genre, or content. Even as they praise the film, these survivors see Schindler’s List as making concessions to the public at the expense of offering a more challenging, but less palatable, representation of the Holocaust.

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