When.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: oskar schindler personal life story writing sample

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Oskar Schindler - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Schindler

    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.

  3. Itzhak Stern - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itzhak_Stern

    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]

  4. Leon Leyson - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Leyson

    Leon Leyson (born Leib Lejzon; September 15, 1929 – January 12, 2013) was a Polish-American Holocaust survivor and one of the youngest Schindlerjuden, Jews saved by Oskar Schindler. [1] His posthumously published memoir, The Boy on the Wooden Box- How the impossible became the possible, on Schindler's List details his extraordinary survival ...

  5. Emilie Schindler - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilie_Schindler

    Emilie Schindler (German: [eˈmiːli̯ə ˈʃɪndlɐ] ⓘ; née Pelzl [ˈpɛltsl̩]; 22 October 1907 – 5 October 2001) was a Sudeten German-born woman who, with her husband Oskar Schindler, helped to save the lives of 1,200 Jews during World War II by employing them in his enamelware and munitions factories, providing them immunity from the Nazis.

  6. Schindler's Ark - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler's_Ark

    Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor and Schindlerjude, [6] inspired Keneally to write Schindler's Ark.After the war, Pfefferberg had tried on a number of occasions to interest the screenwriters and filmmakers he met through his business in making a film based on the story of Schindler and his efforts to save Polish Jews from the Nazis, as well as arranging several interviews with ...

  7. 'Schindler's List' is 30. It may be more valuable now ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/schindlers-list-30-may-more...

    Here was an ostensible epic of Jewish suffering and survival, but one centered on the perspectives of two uniquely charismatic Nazis: Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) and Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes ...

  8. Thomas Keneally - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Keneally

    Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) [1] is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor.He is best known for his historical fiction novel Schindler's Ark, the story of Oskar Schindler's rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, which won the Booker Prize in 1982.

  9. Mietek Pemper - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mietek_Pemper

    Pemper typed his first letter to Oskar Schindler in March 1943, without the knowledge that Schindler had sympathies for his Jewish workers. [2] Through his work in the office, Pemper discovered in 1944 that the Nazis intended to close all factories not directly tied to the war effort, including Schindler's enamelware factory and the other ...