At 3½ years old, Oliwia Dabrowska only needed a single scene to inspire hope, embody despair and forever vault herself into cinematic history. Twenty-nine years later, she’s taking inspiration from her role as “the girl in the red coat” from “Schindler’s List,” Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film about the Holocaust, aiming once again to show that war devastates even the innocent — this time, through raising money and volunteering to help Ukrainian refugees. “I thought that, because of this symbol, I could speak to more people, I could involve more people — people who don’t know me as me, but they know I played this little girl in the red coat,” she told The Washington Post from her home in Krakow, Poland. The movie about Nazi businessman Oskar Schindler, who secretly saved some 1,200 Jews by employing them in his factory, was shot almost entirely in black-and-white. One exception: As Schindler watches atop a hill while Nazis liquidate the Krakow Ghetto, a girl in red stands out amid the monochrome grayscale, seemingly unnoticed and unbothered as she ambles through the horrific violence erupting all around her.
via washingtinpost: She wore a red coat in ‘Schindler’s List.’ Now she’s helping Ukrainians.