Oskar Schindler

In a family that has suffered financially in the economic crisis. Schindler after the German invasion of Poland, he moved to Krakow, where he was awarded the confiscated as a trustee of a small Jewish factory enameled cookware. Polish workers are hired and later Jews from the Krakow ghetto. With their help he locations of the former Jewish book by Isaac Stern. Schindler factory endowed with Jewish investors out of the ghetto. In March 1943 the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto and its inhabitants were transferred to a concentration camp in Plaszow. Schindler’s workers were running to work on time, moved them to his camp. When the factory was abolished, was compiled list of about 700 men and 300 women who were moved into a newly built camp – part concentration camp, Gross-Rosen. Workers attended the Schindler’s factory in Brněnec, which produce anti-aircraft ammunition to end the war.After the war, Schindler spent time in Switzerland, Germany, from 1948 to 1958 he lived in Argentina and lived alternately in Israel and Germany. He died in Hildesheim in Germany and is buried in the Catholic cemetery in Israel on Mount Zion. During his life after the war, received several awards in 1961 in Jerusalem was declared Righteous Among the Nations, in Svitavy was founded in his honor a museum and memorial. So much for a brief biography.

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Schindler’s fate would remain a marginal issue, though in 1992 it did not make the movie “Schindler’s List” director Steven Spielberg Jewish origin based on a novel by the 1982 Australian writer Thomas Keneallyho. War drama from the world famous director and an excellent cast presented as recorded by a true event to electrify the audience and almost all his attention on the heroism of German businessmen.