Oskar Schindler

There were many heroes during the Holocaust and without them; many Jews would not be alive to share their stories. Oskar Schindler, for example, may have seemed like a bad guy since he joined the Nazi Party in February 1939, but he used his occupation as an entrepreneur in his plan to save around 1,200 Jews from being sent to concentration camps. Born in Svitavy, Moravia on April 1908, Schindler began his wife by attending trade school and held a job at his father’s machinery business. In the meantime, Hitler was gaining more control over Germany along with the development of the Nazi Party. It was not until 1936 when Schindler starting working for the German Office of Military Foreign Intelligence. However, Czech authorities discovered Schindler as working undercover ad arrested him in 1958. Schindler was given the death sentence, but he was freed once Sudetenland was taken over Germany. All things considered, Schindler learned his lesson, and he was known as a hero …show more content…
Schindler separated from his wife and moved to Krakow after the invasion of Poland. His new plan for making money was by creating merchandise for the men and women in the service in Germany. Schindler decided the best way to do this is to attain a factory previously owned by the Jews. Then, Schindler employed Jews from the nearby ghetto. All of a sudden, there was liquidation at the Krakow ghetto in March 1943. Schindler told them to stay at the factory overnight to avoid being taken. When the Emalia contained around 1,200 workers, they were forced to the Plaszow concentration camp. Prior to the incident, Schindler decided to go to the train station to meet one of the SS officers. The two of them began to argue about his employees being an important part of the war attempt. Later the workers were released and sent back to the factory. German authorities became suspicious, and he was arrested three times for helping the Jews, but no one charged him for