Spielberg 'our second Schindler'
He isn't the only one. Holocaust survivor Celina Biniaz says that before the movie, she was unable to speak of her experience. The movie "liberated me by giving me a voice. Before that, no one had a reference point, no concept of what it was really like.
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She was the youngest woman on German industrialist Oskar Schindler's list of Jews he saved from death by starting a factory in Poland. At an event last week to mark the release of the DVD, Biniaz hugged Spielberg, saying, "You are our second Schindler."
Her videotaped testimonial is part of the DVD's 77-minute Voices From the List documentary. Biniaz says the movie is very accurate.
"But in many ways, the horrors were greater," she says. "If he had made it as true to the horrors as they really were, people would not have seen it."