By The Huffington Post News Editors
The name Oliwia Dabrowska holds little meaning to film buffs, but the 23-year-old’s first movie role was quite significant. Dabrowska played “Red Genia” or the “girl in the red coat” in Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List.”
With Spielberg’s somber Oscar winner celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2013, the Times UK (via TheWrap) spoke to Dabrowska, who is now a university student living in Krakow, Poland, the site of her famous screen debut.
“I was ashamed of being in the movie and angry with my mother and father when they told anyone about the part,” Dabrowska said. “People said: ‘It must be so important to you, you must know so much about the Holocaust.’ I was frustrated by it all.” Dabrowska said watching “Schindler’s List” as an 11-year-old was “horrible” and the experience made her not want to ever see the film again. That changed as she grew up, however, as Dabrowska said she now understood that “Schindler’s List” was something to be “proud of.”