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Oskar Schindler

Oskar Schindler. By: Jourdynn Burge . German Businessman. Oskar Schindler. Born: April 28, 1908 Zwittau , Moravia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Now Czech Republic) Death: October 9, 1974 Frankfurt, Germany Mother: Louisa – homemaker Father: Hans – factory worker

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Oskar Schindler

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  1. Oskar Schindler By: Jourdynn Burge German Businessman

  2. Oskar Schindler Born: April 28, 1908 Zwittau, Moravia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Now Czech Republic) Death: October 9, 1974 Frankfurt, Germany Mother: Louisa – homemaker Father: Hans – factory worker Siblings: Elfriede School: Sudetenland

  3. Emilie Schindler • Oskar Schindlers wife • Married on March 6, 1928 • Wedding and celebration were in an inn on the outskirts of Zwittau

  4. Schindler’s Factory Schindler employed Jews in his factory to protect them from the Nazis during World War II

  5. Facts/Quote • 1993 – 9 million Jews lived in Europe • 2 out of 3 European Jews had been killed by 1945 • 1.5 million children were murdered • 3.5 million Jews occupied Poland before WWII • Now there are between 3,000-4,000 • The Holocaust survivor Abel Herzberg has said: "There were not six million Jews murdered; there was one murder, six million times."

  6. Hitler on the Rise • Hitler began stirring up feelings among the Sudeten Germans • They were supposed to be with Germany not Czechoslovakia • 1935 - Schindler joined the pro-Nazi Sudeten German Party • For business move not out of love

  7. Krakow, Poland • September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland • Schindler arrived and made friendships with the Wehrmacht (the German army) and the SS (the special armed Nazi unit) • Oskar bought a kitchenware factory and employed Itzhak Stern, a Jewish accountant as the bookkeeper • He searched Krakow’s Jewish communities to employ workers so they didn’t have to leave the city

  8. June of 1942 • Nazi’s sent Krokow’sJews to labor camps • Some of his worker’s were on the first list so he mentioned names of his Nazi friends to the SS at the train station • He said they were “essential workers to the war effort”

  9. 1943 • The “liquidation” of the Krakow ghetto was ordered • AmonGoeth, SS officers, the commandant of the Plaszow forced labor camp was put in charge • Schindler bribed Goeth to allow him to run a mini-labor camp inside his factory and employ his own workers

  10. Early 1944 • Plaszow's destination was changed • Now sent to concentration camps • Auschwitz • Schindler’s factory ordered to close so he went to Goeth and once again bribed him • His factory was going to move to Czechoslovakia to continue to supply the Third Reich (Hitler’s army) • He was to make a list of who he wanted to take with him

  11. The List • Matter of life or death • 1,100 names • All employees of the Emalia camp and others

  12. Fall 1944 • Moved his factory to Brunnlitz, Czechoslovakia by making bribes • Pazlow camp liquidation began in October • 800 men shipped in boxcars to Brunnlitz • 300 women and children were sent to Auschwitz by mistake • Schindler rescued them and sent them to Brunnlitz also • His factory never produced a single shell over the next 7 months • Purposefully sabotaged the machines so they would fail quality tests

  13. The War Ends • May 8, 1945 • Germany surrenders • Called meeting with workers in factory to tell them the war had ended • Moment of silence for the dead • Him and his wife fled west to avoid Russian troops • The 1,200 or more Schindlerjuden ("Shindler's Jews") were freed from the factory by a Russian officer

  14. After World War II • Failed businesses • Overspending • Drinking • Love affairs • 1949 moved to Argentina and went bankrupt • Relied on B'nai B'rith, Jewish charity, to survive • 1958 abandoned wife and moved back to West Germany

  15. After World War II • Started a cement business in Frankfurt, Germany but it failed in 1961 • Visited Israel every year for a couple of weeks to visit the Schindlerjuden and their families

  16. 1962 • 54 birthday • Declared a “Righteous Gentile” • Non-Jew • Planted a tree on the Avenue of the Righteous • Led to Jerusalem's YadVashemMuseum • Memorial to the Holocaust • Name of the liquidation by Germans during World War II

  17. 1974 • Oskar Schindler died from heart and liver problems • Hildesheim, Germany • Wanted to be buried in Israel • Mount Zion, Jerusalem • About five hundred Schindlerjuden were present • Saved more than 6,000 people including Holocaust survivors and their future ancestors

  18. Oskar Schindler 1909-1974

  19. Sources • www.notablebiographies.com • http://www.oskarschindler.org • www.auschwitz.dk • www.ushmm.org • www.historyplace.com

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