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Schindler's List And Essential Worker

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In the context of the movie Schindler’s List and essential worker has many different meaning depending on who you're asking. If you’d ask what an essential worker is to someone like Amon Goeth a Nazi and leader of Płaszów concentration camp he would say anybody who is able to work and once they can’t they become worthless, but if you asked someone like Oskar Schindler he would say all the Jewish people are essential works as he doesn’t share the Nazi’s hatred for the Jewish he see them as real people with important lives. Moses just like Schindler saved many Jewish lives, as Moses lead his people, the Jewish people out of Egypt and led the exodus as the egyptian people had enslaved the Jews. I think Schindler and Moses did what they did out

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