During a 2018 interview with Lester Holt on NBC Nightly News, Holt asked Steven Spielberg to explain the symbolism of the girl in the red coat. Spielberg's reply was, "Well you know in the book Oskar Schindler--and through all the interviews of all the people that have survived, that Thomas Keneally interviewed before he wrote his book, Schindler couldn't get over the fact that a little girl was walking during the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto and everyone was being put on trucks or shot in the street, and one little girl in a red coat was being ignored by the SS. The SS were taking everybody but somehow, they were ignoring this six-year-old child walking down the street wearing the brightest color and yet she wasn't being seen. And to me that meant that the people-- you know Roosevelt and Eisenhower and probably Stalin and Churchill knew about the Holocaust -it was a well-kept secret -and did nothing to stop it. It was almost as if the Holocaust itself was wearing red and yet we did nothing to bomb the . . . German rail lines, we did nothing to bomb the crematoria, where there would be many casualties but would slow down the industrialized process of murder for perhaps as long as three to six months. Would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives and we did nothing about it. And for me it was like a glaring red flag that anybody if they were really watching could have seen. . . . It caught [Schindler's] attention, that's the other reason that was very important . . . because he'd looked at that and it changed something in him, that moment in his life changed him."

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