Oskar Schindler died on October 9, 1974. Pictured here are Schindler's survivors and people from the movie "Schindler's List" standing by his grave in Jerusalem. He was responsible for saving the lives of about 1200 Jews and was recognized as the Righteous Among the Nations in 1993. Today there are more than 8,000 living descendants of the Jews saved by Oskar Schindler.
Oskar Schindler
Oskar Schindler was a German mechanic and manufacturer who saved 1,200 Jews during World War II: he transferred Holocaust victims to his own factories in Poland and Czechoslovakia. Schindler is the main character in the book Schindler's Ark and the film Schindler's List.
Oskar Schindler
Oscar was born on April 28, 1908 in the Czech city of Svito, Austria-Hungary. The boy's parents, Hans Schindler and Franziska Lusser, moved from Vienna to the northern part of the country. In 1915, Oscar's sister Elfriede was born.
With the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Oskar's hometown came under the control of Czechoslovakia.
After the young man graduated from school, he entered a technical college in Brno. He did not pass the final exam and started working in his father's company selling agricultural machinery and equipment. Young Oscar led a carefree life; He liked car racing. In 1928, after marriage, the man began working for Moravian Electrotechnic; Its head office is located in Brno.
Schindler worked at the city's driving school and served in the Czech army for 18 months as a lance-corporal. After that, he returned to his job at Moravian Electrotechnic. In 1931, the organization was closed, and the man had to move to the capital of Germany to earn his living. The following year, Schindler returned and worked in agriculture as well as banking at Jaroslav Simek Bank. In addition, he worked in the construction industry. As Oscar made a profit, he built a mansion in Brno and decorated it beautifully.
Industries
By early 1938, Oskar Schindler had joined the Abwehr, the Nazi intelligence service. Later, he was imprisoned for six months on the charges of the Czech secret police. The industrialist was released after the Munich Agreement was signed with Hitler and the region joined Germany.
Schindler immediately joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party. By the start of World War II, he owned an enamelware factory in Krakow; It was retooled to manufacture weapons.
Oskar Schindler in a factory
At first, Schindler was served by only seven Jewish servants; Because they were the cheapest labor force, man tried to engage them more. When Jews were sent to concentration camps, Oskar managed to protect his workers.
War and heroism
In 1942, Schindler realized how horrible the conditions in the concentration camps were and decided to protect the oppressed people. Together with the accountant Itzhak Stern, who worked in his factory, Oskar devised a system: he bought Jews who had been sentenced to death in the Krakow-Plaszow concentration camp and hired them to work in his factory.
In three years, the industrialist saved 800 men, 300 women and 100 children; He spent 2.6 million Reichsmarks. In 1943, Schindler saved his workers from imminent execution after they visited SS Reichsführer Himmler's factory. In December 1944, Oskar Schindler saved people from the ovens of Auschwitz and dared to carry out a dangerous rescue operation: he evacuated the Jews to the safety of his own factory in Braneck.
Post-war period
Soviet troops entered Brněnec in May 1945. By then Oskar Schindler and his wife had left: as a Nazi, he had to hide from those who defeated Germany. The mechanic made his way to neutral American territory posing as a fugitive Jew.
Oskar Schindler after the war
Soon after, Schindler and his wife moved to Switzerland. The United Jewish Organization helped him survive. Three years after the end of the war, the man moved to Argentina; Spouses were welcomed in a Jewish community that provided a house and land to the former Savior in São Vicente.
Oskar Schindler of Argentina
Schindler started breeding nutrias, but the business failed. In 1958, Oskar took 100,000 in cash and returned to West Germany alone. He tried to restart his business but all his projects failed.
personal life
In 1927, Oskar Schindler married Emilie Pelzl, who came from Alt Moletein and was a year older than her husband. The young woman's parents gave a good dowry: 100 000 Czech crowns. The couple bought a car; The rest of the money disappeared: Oscar squandered it. The man was a womanizer and had many affairs. Schindler's former classmate Aurelie gave birth to his two children, son Oskar and daughter Emily.
During the war, Emily took an active part in rescuing Jews and helped her husband maintain contacts at the top of the SS. After the war,
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