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Danka Dresner
Janek Dresner is Juda and Mrs. Dresner’s son, Genia’s cousin, and Danka Dresner’s brother. Schindler saves Janek and other members of the Dresner family from the Płaszów concentration camp and moves them to Schindler’s factory in Brinnlitz. There, while Schindler is away, Janek makes a mistake during an inspection and is accused of sabotage. Despite Commandant Liepold’s attempts to hold a hearing and swiftly dispose of Janek, Schindler cleverly helps Janek avoid death by starting his own hearing, then breaking it up before sentencing.
Janek Dresner Quotes in Schindler’s List
The Schindler’s List quotes below are all either spoken by Janek Dresner or refer to Janek Dresner . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 34 Quotes
This deft subversion may not have satisfied Liepold and Schoenbrun. For the sitting had not reached a formal conclusion; it had not ended in a judgment. But they could not complain that Oskar had avoided a hearing, or treated it with levity.
Dresner’s account, given later in his life, raises the supposition that Brinnlitz maintained its prisoners’ lives by a series of stunts so rapid that they were nearly magical. To tell the strict truth though, Brinnlitz, both as a prison and as a manufacturing enterprise, was itself, of its nature and in a literal sense, the one sustained, dazzling, integral confidence trick.
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This quote comes from the end of the hearing for Janek Dresner, who is caught making a mistake at the factory at Brinnlitz and accused of deliberately sabotaging the machine. Commandant Liepold pounces on this opportunity because he’s been looking for a pretext to get inside Schindler’s camp and exercise greater authority. Schindler, however, is used to playing these power games and insists on maintaining autonomy over his own camp, which Liepold grudgingly respects. Schindler’s solution is to effectively stage a mock trial for Janek that he abruptly cuts off before delivering a sentence. In this way, Schindler is using Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque o
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Janek Dresner Character Timeline in Schindler’s List
The timeline below shows where the character Janek Dresner appears in Schindler’s List. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 34
...be absent from Brinnlitz for periods of time. At one point while he’s away, 19-year-old Janek Dresner is accused of sabotage (when in fact, he’s just ignorant about metalwork). A German supervisor...
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...about the situation from Stern. Liepold wants to preside over a hearing and ultimately hang Janek Dresner (along with his family), but Schindler refuses to let anyone else encroach on his territory....
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Schindler becomes increasingly irritated with Janek Dresner , at one point even hitting him across the face. But as he does so,...
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