Aside from capitalising on an astonishing selection of (sometimes quite harrowing) archive, this documentary also presents us with an insightful array of interviews with many of the survivors of the Nazi persecution of the Jews during the 1940s. Abhorred by the activities of the National Socialists, local industrialist Oskar Schindler manages to convince the authorities that using the Jewish population as disposable manual labour was a better use of their numbers than just sending them to a concentration or labour camps. For a while, this served a dual function in supporting the war machine…