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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.
In German-occupied Kraków during World War II, the Nazis force local Polish Jews into the overcrowded Kraków Ghetto. Oskar Schindler, a German Nazi Party member from Czechoslovakia, arrives in the city, hoping to make his fortune.
Some version of this brush with death really did befall some of the Jewish women who worked for Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist and Nazi Party member whose rescue of more than 1,100 Jews ...
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]
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.
1944: Oskar Schindler brought his Jews to Brněnec and started to work the factory. May 1945: Russians liberated Brněnec. Afterwards, the Communist government of Czechoslovakia nationalized the factory. 1989: Fall of Communism. The factory went into private hands. In its last years the factory made car seat covers and airline blankets.
The film is based on the true story of Oskar Schindler, played by Liam Neeson, a German businessman who saved over 1,200 Polish-Jewish refugees by employing them in his factories.