OSKAR SCHINDLER
This is the Story of a remarkable man who outwitted Hitler and the Nazi”s. Oskar Schindler was a german industrialist, former member of the Nazi party and possibly the most famous “Righteous Gentile” who is credited with saving as many as 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust. He saved more Jews than any other form the gas chambers and Nazi death traps. An ethnic german,and a man full of flaws like the rest of us, he was born on April 28, 1908 in Zwittau Austria - Hungary, what is now known as Moravia in the Czech Republic. He was born as a Catholic, but from a young age he inhabited a world of sin. He grew up with all the privileges money could buy. His exploits with women, bribery, black marketeering, and lies are the stuff of a barroom legend.
Oskar married Emilie at the age of 19 ,but he was never without a mistress or two . He …show more content…
Its population numbered in 3.5 Million. Krakows jewish population alone numbered in 50,000. When the Nazis invaded poland, all the jews were forced into crowded ghettos. They were marched to and from work under armed guard. Jewish property and businesses were either burned or sold by the S.S. to Nazi investors, one of whom was the fast talking, womanizing, money hungry schindler. Soon after, he acquired his “ Emalia” factory. It produced enamel and ammunition goods to the german front. Soon the removal of jewish people to Nazi death camps began in earnest. Schindler’s jewish accountant put him in touch with a few jews with any money or wealth. The jews with any money invested in his factory, and in return got to work there and possibly be safe from the Nazi torture. In the summer of 1942, schindler witnessed a german raid on a jewish ghetto. watching people being beat and packed into cattle cars, bound for certain death, something awakened in him. In these years, millions of jews died in death camps such as Auschwitz. Schindler’s jews miraculously
This is the Story of a remarkable man who outwitted Hitler and the Nazi”s. Oskar Schindler was a german industrialist, former member of the Nazi party and possibly the most famous “Righteous Gentile” who is credited with saving as many as 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust. He saved more Jews than any other form the gas chambers and Nazi death traps. An ethnic german,and a man full of flaws like the rest of us, he was born on April 28, 1908 in Zwittau Austria - Hungary, what is now known as Moravia in the Czech Republic. He was born as a Catholic, but from a young age he inhabited a world of sin. He grew up with all the privileges money could buy. His exploits with women, bribery, black marketeering, and lies are the stuff of a barroom legend.
Oskar married Emilie at the age of 19 ,but he was never without a mistress or two . He …show more content…
Its population numbered in 3.5 Million. Krakows jewish population alone numbered in 50,000. When the Nazis invaded poland, all the jews were forced into crowded ghettos. They were marched to and from work under armed guard. Jewish property and businesses were either burned or sold by the S.S. to Nazi investors, one of whom was the fast talking, womanizing, money hungry schindler. Soon after, he acquired his “ Emalia” factory. It produced enamel and ammunition goods to the german front. Soon the removal of jewish people to Nazi death camps began in earnest. Schindler’s jewish accountant put him in touch with a few jews with any money or wealth. The jews with any money invested in his factory, and in return got to work there and possibly be safe from the Nazi torture. In the summer of 1942, schindler witnessed a german raid on a jewish ghetto. watching people being beat and packed into cattle cars, bound for certain death, something awakened in him. In these years, millions of jews died in death camps such as Auschwitz. Schindler’s jews miraculously