Oskar Schindler

Background:Early Life

• Born April 28 1908 and died October 9 1974(age 66)
• Grew up in Zwittau, Moravia
• Joined the Abwehr in 1936 
• Collected information on railways and troop movements
• Joined the Nazi party in 1939(Steinhouse,2004)

Saved more than 1,200 Jewish people during the holocaust(Steinhouse,2004)

Background:Motivation

• Was an oppurtunist
• Disagreed with the Germans(Steinhouse, 2014)

Event:liquidation of the krakow ghetto

• March 1943
• Kept his workers at the factory
• Added another 450 Jews to Emalia(Tabacznik, 2013)

Event:abandoned cattle cars

• 1945
• 132 Jewish prisoners who had not eaten or drank in 10 days
• Oskar and Emilie were able to save 116 of the 132 prisoners
• Schindler purchased a nearby plot of land for burial(Crowe, 2004)

Impact

• Schindler's false factory production numbers caused suspicion
• Today there are 7,000 descendants of Schindler's Jews(Crowe,2013) 

impact: schindler's list

• Schindler's list was created by one of his assistants
• Composed of the names of the 1,200 prisoners he saved
• Schindler's story would later be made into a movie(Crowe,2013)

background:post-holocaust

• In 1962 Schindler was awarded "Righteous among nations"
• 1993, U.S Holocaust presented Schindler with the medal of rememberance 
• One of Schindler's Jews, Murray Pantirer set up a construction firm  
• There are now a total of 25 streets in New Jersey named after Schindler(Cr 

works cited

• Crowe,David. Oskar Schindler. Boulder, CO. Westview Press. 2004
• Steinhouse,Herbert. "The Real Oskar Schindler". Saturday Night(2004)
• Tabacznik,Barry. "Oskar and Emilie Schindler". The man behind the list(2013
• ushmm.org. June 20, 2013. Westview Press. March 17, 2014. www.ushmm.org
• jewishvirtuallibrary.org. American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. March 18