After Oskar Schindler Essay

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Eventually, after the war, Schindler was in a midlife crisis after the war due to several industry fails, bankruptcy, the verge of being arrested, and several changes in his life that caused him to be unsuccessful. A few years after the war, Schindler fled to Argentina to live on a farm with his wife, Emilie Schindler. “...until 1949, when they immigrated to Argentina. In 1957, permanently separated but not divorced from Emilie, Schindler returned alone to Germany” (Oskar Schindler United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). After Oskar leaves Emilee, without a divorce, he moves back to Germany, and is pampered by his Jews. Oskar Schindler was recognized as a hero to them, and for that, he was given treatment from them. During the year of 1962, …show more content…
He declared bankruptcy in 1963 and suffered a heart attack the next year, which led to a month-long stay in hospital”(Wikipedia). Since Schindler’s line production did not last many years, he was bankrupted, and soon had a heart attack. Being debilitated in a hospital for one month, Schindler was being supported from many of his Jew. On the date of October 9, 1974, Schindler dies. “...when he died in 1974, his wartime exploits had still not been widely described, although they were recognized in Israel where Oskar Schindler was declared a Righteous Gentile and where his remains, transported from Frankfurt, were buried in a cemetery on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. As far as Thomas Keneally could discover, he was the only member of the Nazi Party so honoured”(The Real Oskar Schindler). Although Schindler died, and still wasn’t recognize as widely, he was still one of the most important people in the life of the Jews. His body was buried at Mount Zion because he was one to be honored as an individual for being a war hero. In conclusion, Schindler was represented as an inspirational hero of the time, and although he has perished his legacy is not nearly as close to

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