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Oskar Schindler (German: [ˈɔskaʁ ˈʃɪndlɐ] ⓘ; 28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was a German industrialist, humanitarian, and member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Oskar Schindler (second from right) with a group of Jews he rescued during the Holocaust.The photo was taken in 1946, a year after World War II ended.. The Schindlerjuden, literally translated from German as "Schindler Jews", were a group of roughly 1,200 Jews saved by Oskar Schindler during the Holocaust.
The permissibility of war is limited and the requirement is that one always seek a just peace before waging war. [2] [20] Some modern Jewish scholars hold that biblical texts authorizing offensive war no longer apply, and that Jewish theology instructs Jews to leave vengeance to God. [21] [22] Jewish writers in the 2nd-century CE defined their ...
God's names in Jewish thought and in the light of Kabbalah; The Name of God as Revealed in Exodus 3:14—an explanation of its meaning. Bibliography on Divine Names in the Dead Sea Scrolls; Jewish Encyclopedia: Names of God "Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh" – Song and Video of Ancient Yemenite Prayer From the Diwan
On the 18 of November 1939, during the early months of the Nazi occupation of Poland, Oskar Schindler was introduced to Stern, [5] who was then working as an accountant for Schindler's fellow Abwehr agent Josef "Sepp" Aue, who had gained control of Stern's formerly Jewish-owned place of employment as a Treuhänder (trustee). [6]
His children were Dr. Eva Schindler Oles and Rabbi Alexander Schindler, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations from 1973 to 1996. Schindler was a student of the Austrian Jewish philosopher and Zionist activist Nathan Birnbaum. He was an active member of the Bais Yaakov movement, for which he wrote an anthem and a number of ...
Schindler hires Itzhak Stern, a Jewish official with contacts among black marketeers and the Jewish business community; he handles administration and helps Schindler arrange financing. Stern ensures that as many Jewish workers as possible were deemed essential to the German war effort to prevent them from being taken by the SS to concentration ...
Righteous Among the Nations (Hebrew: חֲסִידֵי אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם ḥasidei ummot ha'olam) is a title used by Yad Vashem to describe people who, for various reasons, made an effort to assist victims, including Jews, who were being exterminated by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.