Oliwia Dabrowska was 3 when she acted 
in Schindler’s List

‘I was the girl in the red coat in Schindler’s 
List – and it left me traumatised for years’

Her cherubic face and red coat were the only flashes of colour in the harrowing, monochrome world of Schindler’s List.

But the girl in the red coat, played by Oliwia Dabrowska, has revealed that her appearance in the film at the age of 3 led to years of trauma and shame. Now 23, the actress said the film “horrified” her when she first watched it at the age of 11 — breaking a promise to Steven Spielberg, the director, to wait until she was 18.

Personal Opinion:

The film explained the cruel reality of the Nazi Regime and the Concentration Camps and Oliwia was very young when she played in the film as an actress. When she was younger she didn’t recognized the horrible story of the film and when she saw the film with 11 years, she was shocked – the director told he to wait at least until she was 18 in order to be more prepared to understand the film. But she couldn’t wait and that was an error. She was too young and therefore she had a trauma for the rest of her life.