Oskar Schindler’s process of saving those Jews wasn’t an easy task. The Holocaust was one of the worst genocides of all time. “Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning ‘sacrifice by fire’” (www.ushmm.org). Which meant that people had to sacrifice by getting burnt and that’s what Adolf Hitler did during the massacre. It was the cause of the death of six million Jewish People. “Before the Second World War, population of Poland was 3.5 million. Today there are between 3,000 and 4,000 left” (www.oskarschindler.com). The Nazis were the reason why the Holocaust occurred and it wasn’t a good thing. They thought that the Jewish People were a danger to Germany and that needed to be removed from this world. Fortunately, there was someone who cared
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Oskar Schindler was born on April 28, 1908, in Svitavy (Zwittau), Moravia, Austria-Hungary. Oskar’s father, Hans Schindler, was a farm-equipment manufacturer, his mother, Louisa, was a homemaker. He was married to Emilie Pelzl at the young age of 19 but he always like to be with a mistress or two. “Schindler held a variety of jobs, including working in his father's farm machinery business in Svitavy, opening a driving school in Sumperk, and selling government property in Brno” (Crowe 2004). He was doing these kinds of Jobs until he joined the Abwehr, the intelligence service of Nazi Germany, in 1936. He has presided over the demise of his family business and became a salesman when opportunity came knocking in the guise of the war. “He also served in the Czechoslovak army and in 1938 attained the rank of lance corporal in the reserves. Schindler began working with the Amt Auslands/Abwehr (Office of the Military Foreign Intelligence) of the German Armed Forces in 1936” (Crowe 2004). After an 18-month stint in the Czech army, Schindler returned to his company called Moravian Electrotechnic, which went bankrupt shortly afterwards. His father's farm machinery business closed around the same time, leaving Schindler unemployed for a year. He took a job in a bank in 1931, where he worked until 1938. In February 1939, five months after the German took control of Poland. he joined the Nazi Party. “Schindler took his first …show more content…
In October 1944, after the SS transferred the Emalia Jews to Plaszow, “One of his assistants drew several versions of a list of up to 1,200 Jewish prisoners needed to work in the new factory.” (www.ushnm.com). These lists came to be known collectively as “Schindler's List.” Schindler met the specifications required by the SS to classify Brünnlitz as a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen concentration camp and thereby facilitated the survival of around 800 Jewish men whom the SS deported from Plaszow via Gross-Rosen to Brünnlitz and between 300 and 400 Jewish women from Plaszow via Auschwitz. Though classified as an armaments factory, the Brünnlitz plant produced just one wagonload of live ammunition in just under eight months of operation. “By presenting bogus production figures, Schindler justified the existence of the sub-camp as an armaments factory and thus facilitated the survival of over 1,000 Jews, sparing them the horrors and brutality of conventional camp life” (www.ushmn.com). Schindler left Brünnlitz only on May 9, 1945, the day that Soviet troops liberated the camp. After the war, Schindler and his wife Emilie settled in Regensburg, Germany, until 1949, when they immigrated to Argentina. In 1957,
Oskar Schindler was born on April 28, 1908, in Svitavy (Zwittau), Moravia, Austria-Hungary. Oskar’s father, Hans Schindler, was a farm-equipment manufacturer, his mother, Louisa, was a homemaker. He was married to Emilie Pelzl at the young age of 19 but he always like to be with a mistress or two. “Schindler held a variety of jobs, including working in his father's farm machinery business in Svitavy, opening a driving school in Sumperk, and selling government property in Brno” (Crowe 2004). He was doing these kinds of Jobs until he joined the Abwehr, the intelligence service of Nazi Germany, in 1936. He has presided over the demise of his family business and became a salesman when opportunity came knocking in the guise of the war. “He also served in the Czechoslovak army and in 1938 attained the rank of lance corporal in the reserves. Schindler began working with the Amt Auslands/Abwehr (Office of the Military Foreign Intelligence) of the German Armed Forces in 1936” (Crowe 2004). After an 18-month stint in the Czech army, Schindler returned to his company called Moravian Electrotechnic, which went bankrupt shortly afterwards. His father's farm machinery business closed around the same time, leaving Schindler unemployed for a year. He took a job in a bank in 1931, where he worked until 1938. In February 1939, five months after the German took control of Poland. he joined the Nazi Party. “Schindler took his first …show more content…
In October 1944, after the SS transferred the Emalia Jews to Plaszow, “One of his assistants drew several versions of a list of up to 1,200 Jewish prisoners needed to work in the new factory.” (www.ushnm.com). These lists came to be known collectively as “Schindler's List.” Schindler met the specifications required by the SS to classify Brünnlitz as a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen concentration camp and thereby facilitated the survival of around 800 Jewish men whom the SS deported from Plaszow via Gross-Rosen to Brünnlitz and between 300 and 400 Jewish women from Plaszow via Auschwitz. Though classified as an armaments factory, the Brünnlitz plant produced just one wagonload of live ammunition in just under eight months of operation. “By presenting bogus production figures, Schindler justified the existence of the sub-camp as an armaments factory and thus facilitated the survival of over 1,000 Jews, sparing them the horrors and brutality of conventional camp life” (www.ushmn.com). Schindler left Brünnlitz only on May 9, 1945, the day that Soviet troops liberated the camp. After the war, Schindler and his wife Emilie settled in Regensburg, Germany, until 1949, when they immigrated to Argentina. In 1957,