The award winning film Schindler's List tells the story of how Oskar Schindler, a German entrepreneur, first exploits but later protects Jews in Poland. When Jews are forced into the ghetto, Schindler employs them at his kitchenware factory. This arrangement is beneficial for both Schindler, who gets cheap labor, and the Jews, who are protected from being sent to concentration camps. When Nazis close Poland's Cracow ghetto, Jews are either sent to death camps or a labor camp at Plaszow. At Plaszow, many workers die, and those who are not productive are transferred to nearby Auschwitz.

When the tide turns on the Eastern Front and German forces retreat, Schindler begins manufacturing faulty artillery for the German army. Disillusioned with the Nazi party, Schindler conspires with his Jewish accountant, Itzhak Stern, to employ Jews from Plaszow, hence saving them from extermination.

When Germany finally surrenders, Schindler knows he is a wanted man for wrongly using Jews as slave labor. As he prepares to flee, Schindler is surrounded by over 1,000 Jews whose lives he saved. His accountant turned friend, Itzhak, hands Schindler a piece of paper and says, "We've written a letter trying to explain things in case you were captured. Every worker has signed it."

Schindler is moved by this gesture and thanks them. Itzhak then gives Schindler a gold ring with an inscription on it, which Itzhak translates: "It's Hebrew from the Talmud. It says, 'Whoever saves one life saves the entire world.'"

Weeping, Schindler cries out, "I could have got more! I could have got more!"

Itzhak reassures him, "Eleven hundred people are alive because of you."

Schindler laments, "If I made more money…I threw away so much money. You have no idea. If I just.…"

Again, Itzhak emphasizes that Schindler has saved generations because of what he did.

"I didn't do enough," Schindler says.

"You did so much," Itzhak reaffirms.

Emotionally undone, Schindler muses, "This car…what use is this car? Why did I keep this car? I could have saved ten more people." Then taking off his Nazi lapel badge, he guiltily says, "This is gold; I could have saved more."

The film tells us that today there are more than 6,000 descendants of Schindler's Jews living in the USA and Europe, and many in Israel.

All the world's possessions are not as precious as one person.

Elapsed time: Measured from the beginning of the opening credit, this scene begins at 2:40:00 and lasts approximately five minutes.

Content: Schindler's List is rated R because of nudity, violence, and profanity.