Oskar Schindler Research Paper

Oskar Schindler, a man who was credited with saving more than one thousand Jewish lives, was a person who beyond all circumstances managed to do what no other man ever imagined possible. Society portrayed Schindler as a person who could do the unthinkable; Jewish people on the other hand saw Schindler as a gift from the heavens. If there would have been more people like Schindler then many more Jewish lives would have been saved. Schindler spent over two million dollars on rescuing Jews and risked his own life in order to give the Jews a second chance at life. “Oskar Schindler rose to the highest level of humanity, walked through the bloody mud of the Holocaust without soiling his soul, his compassion, his respect for human life - and gave …show more content…
Most wonder what drove Oskar Schindler to do all that he did, why he spent so much, why he risked his life to save the Jewish population, a group that was being unjustly oppressed. ‘“Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen,” he said later. “I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.”’ (Jewish Virtual Library).
Many people continued to wonder why he would save the life of so many Jewish people, Schindler wanted to explain why he did such good thing to people and wanted the people to understand, ‘“If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car,” he said later of his wartime actions, “wouldn't you help him?”’ (Jewish Virtual Library). Others also believed that the murdering of Jewish children also drove him to save more Jewish people. “There is no question that Oskar Schindler was appalled by the murder of Jewish children when the Krakow ghetto was closed but Crowe argues ‘evidence suggests that he had already chosen his path sometime before this tragedy’ and that the murders ‘simply made him more