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-Schindler’s List

-Oskar Schindler

-From Zwittau, Austria-Hungary

- Hired Jews to save them from going to concentration camps.

-Paid off the Nazi’s

-Saved over 1,200 Jews

-Provided them with shelter, food and clothing. Most importantly with protection.

- Wasn’t always a stand up guy.

- Cheated on his wife many times. Liked to drink a lot.

- However gave up his money to save others.

- Risked his own life for complete strangers.

- Did whatever he could to help them.

Who was Oskar Schindler?

Oskar Schindler once known as a “flamboyant profiteer and womanizer,” (Schindler’s List), would go on to save “more than 1,200 Jews from death camps during the Holocaust.” (Don Oldenburg). Oskar Schindler was born April 28, 1908 in Zwittau, Austria-Hungary. He grew up in a wealthy home and even created a wealth of his own when he opened his own enamel business during the Holocaust. It was with this business that Oskar saved so many lives. Oskar hired as many Jews as he could to work for him at his company, paying off the Nazi’s, saving them from a certain death. Whenever someone new would come to work for him Oskar would always give them words of encouragement and tell them “you’re safe now; you’re with me.” (Thomas Keneally). Oskar gave everything that he had in order to save his workers from the Nazi’s. When he died, he did so without a penny. “Today his name is known as a household word for courage in a world of brutality – a hero who saved hundreds of Jews from Hitler’s gas chambers,” (His List of Life).

References

Keneally, T. (1982). Schindler’s list. New York: Serpentine Publishing Company.

Oldenburg, D. (2008). “Schindler”: the tale’s in telling. USA Today, Retrieved from http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=6&hid=4&sid=c2022427-8121-4f4a-84db-88bf0913fc07%40sessionmgr4&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=a9h&AN=J0E141484107108

 Oscar schindler: his list of life. (2009). Retrieved from http://www.oskarschindler.com/