OSKAR SCHINDLER

BACKGROUND

• September 1, 1939 German - Krakow
• May 13, 1945 liberation of Brünnlitz
• "I am a Jew."
• Auschwitz 60 kilometres away
• Jews murdered, sent to Auschwitz

BACKGROUND

• 1938-1943 enamel factory
• Hired Jewish workers
• 1939 Schindler-Nazi
• 1943 Liquidation
• Plaszow Camp

FACTORY KRAKOW

• Factory based in Krakow
• Falsified records
• Safe haven
• Additional barracks
• Smuggled food/medicine

FACTORY -- BRÜNNLITZ

• Enamelware factory
• Saved from deportation
• Schindler convinced Gen. Schindler
• Factory in Brünnlitz 100 made it
• 900 to Gross-Rosen camp

BRÜNNLITZ

• Reunited with Schindler
• New factory V2 bomb parts
• Two train cars of frozen bodies
• Proper burial
• Collected uniforms, weapons, amunn

LIBERATION

• Sept. 1944 lists
• Continued rescuing
• 1,098 total
• 801 men and 297 women
• Schindlerjuden

IMPACT

• Schindlerjuden regained health
• Scattered around the world
• Steinhouse 1949, wrote story
• To Israel, greeted as hero
• 1962 "Righteous Among the Nations"

IMPACT

• Oskar Schindler Strasse
• Schindler's List
• 6,000 lives

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Pemper, Mietek. The Road to Rescue: the untold story of Schindler's list.
• New York: Other Press LLC, 2008
• remember.org 15 May 2010. Holocaust Essays. 16 March 2014
• http://www.remember.org/imagine/schindler.html
• ushmn.org 10 June 2013. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

BIBLIOGRPHY

• 16 March 2014 http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005787
• Webb, Chris. "Oskar Schindler." Survivor Stories vol 35 (2007): 25-50.
• Steinhouse, Herbert. "The Real Oskar Schindler." Saturday Night vol 1 (1949): 1-5