Schindler’s List: What The Girl In The Red Coat Represents, Explained

The little girl in red Schindler’s List moment is a pivotal splash of color against a monochrome backdrop of war and suffering — and though the scene’s importance has been long-debated and discussed, almost all interpretations of its true meaning are incredibly tragic. Steven Spielberg’s devastating war drama tells the real-life story of German industrialist Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) and his attempts to defer from the Nazi Party and protect his Jewish employees from the slaughter and executions that he’d witnessed abroad. It’s a notoriously emotional film that doesn’t pull its punches at all when depicting the true horrors of the Holocaust.