In the film Schindler's List the Jews live and work from the ghetto, much like many Jews did at that time. Later in the film the Jews are moved to a concentration camp, some two kilometres from the factory from where they walked to work.
Before the ghetto I imagine it was neutral.
People lived there.
nowhere had 'gas showers' Krakow was a ghetto, not a death camp. Although there was a concentration camp: Plaszow-Krakau, which provided labour for (amongst others) the Schindler factory.
He initially got them from the Krakau ghetto, but they were then moved to the Krakow-Plaszow camp.
No one, concentration camps were never and have never been stopped. This may be a reference to Schindler, he employed Jews in his factory, but it did not keep them out of a concentration camp, when the ghetto was cleared, they went to the concentration camp with everyone else, to walk to the factory to work every day.
the Judenrat does not appear in the film. The ghetto itself hardly appears in it either.
It is an ironic scene. when the people first came to the Ghetto some of them belived it was a good thing, they were only Jewish people there. The Jewish people thought it is sate there, when actually there was no future in the Ghetto, only death.
The Ghetto scenes were filmed in the ghetto, though some places had to be substituted for others, but still parts of the same (former) ghetto area was used. They did not get permission to film where the camp was, (and half of it is covered by blocks of flats), so they built a reconstruction a few miles from the site.
Originally, Schindler sought to profit from the German invasion of Poland in 1939, buying a factory in Krakow at a low price and employing Jews as cheap "slave" labour, which he was able to do under Nazi rule. Schindler initially hid wealthy Jewish investors, possibly for profit, but later he began shielding his workers without regard to cost. Schindler began actively helping the Jews after witnessing a 1942 raid on the Kraków Ghetto, where soldiers shipped the ghetto inhabitants to the concentration camp at Plaszow. Appalled by the murder of many Jews who had tried to hide, he worked to transfer them to a safer place. He was skilled in persuasive speech and often bribed government officials to avoid being investigated. .
Hitler when he occupied poland in september 1939
He sees many Jews in a Jewish ghetto being murdered and that gives him a change of heart towards them and no longer thinks of them just as laborers.