217;t got a life?’ ‘Thieves took it.’” (Ozick, 28). They both experience a similar death in a concentration camp. The pawnbroker sees a man run away from dogs and Germans and get stuck in barbed wire. Rosa experiences almost the same thing when her daughter Magda is thrown into the barbed wire. The last thing that they both have in common is that they both have someone who supports them financially. The pawnbroker has Rodriguez, a wealthy illegal businessman, and Rosa has Stella, her heartless niece.The film The Pawnbroker depicts the life of the pawnbroker in Harlem comparing it to his experience in the Holocaust. The film uses a lot of different images to accomplish this. While the pawnbroker is going to his car he sees a young man been beaten by a group of other men. As he gets into his car he has a flash back of what happened in the concentration camp. The flash back was triggered by a neighborhood dog barking at the man be beaten, it brought the pawnbroker back to when a man was trying to run away from a German dog and ran into a barbed wire fence.Another image of the Holocaust that the film shows is when the pawnbroker is in the store and a young woman comes in and tries to sell her ring, this situation causes the pawnbroker to have a flash back. The flash back is of hands held up on a barbed wire fence and a German soldier taking the rings from the people. There is a scene when a prostitute offers her self to the pawnbroker this makes the pawnbroker have a flash back. In this flash back we are shown how the women have become prostitutes for the German soldiers. One of the women prostitutes happens to be the pawnbroker’s wife. There is a scene when the pawnbroker is in a train going back to his shop he starts to have a flash back of when he and his family were on a train going to a concentration camp.The images used in the film to depict the Holocaust are many. In the movie the pawnbro...
