



The SS were taking everybody but somehow, they were ignoring this six-year-old child walking down the street wearing the brightest color and yet she wasn't being seen. Spielberg's reply was, "Well you know in the book Oskar Schindler-and through all the interviews of all the people that have survived, that Thomas Keneally interviewed before he wrote his book, Schindler couldn't get over the fact that a little girl was walking during the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto and everyone was being put on trucks or shot in the street, and one little girl in a red coat was being ignored by the SS. During a 2018 interview with Lester Holt on NBC Nightly News, Holt asked Steven Spielberg to explain the symbolism of the girl in the red coat.
