Oskar Schindler

By ewan.ellman

  • Date of birth

    Date of birth
    He was born at April 28th of 1908 in Svitavy

  • Education

    Education
    After attending primary and secondary school, Schindler enrolled in a technical school. He was expelled in 1924 for forging his report card. He later graduated and took courses in Brno.

  • Mechanics

    Mechanics
    In his early life he studied and did some courses of chauffeuring and machinery. He loved motorcycles, and did some competitions with his racing motorcycle.

  • Wedding

    Wedding
    He married at 6th March of 1928 with Emilie Pelzl a daughter of a Sudeten German farmer.

  • Spy for the Abwehr

    Spy for the Abwehr
    Although he was Czechoslovakian, in 1936, Schindler became a spy for the Abwehr, the military intelligence service of Nazi Germany. He was assigned to Abwehrstelle II Commando VIII, based in Breslau.

  • Arrested by the Czech government

    Arrested by the Czech government
    He was arrested by the Czech government for espionage on 18 July 1938 and immediately imprisoned, but was released as a political prisoner under the terms of the Munich Agreement, the instrument under which the Czech Sudetenland was annexed into Germany on 1 October.

  • Nazi

    Nazi
    Schindler applied for membership in the Nazi Party on 1 November and was accepted in 1940.

  • He accepts jewish workers

    He accepts jewish workers
    Schindler accepts jewish workers, seving them from the world war II.

  • Schindler accepts jewish workers

    Schindler accepts jewish workers
    Hans Frank issues deadline for all but work-essential Jews to depart Krakow voluntarily. There is a mad scramble as Jews search for essential jobs. Through the urging of Stern, Schindler accepts 150 Jews as employees at his factory.

  • A change

    A change
    On 13 March 1943,several thousand not deemed fit for work were sent to extermination camps and murdered; hundreds more were murdered on the streets by the Nazis as they cleared out the ghetto. Schindler witnessed the liquidation of the ghetto and was appalled. From that point forward, says Schindlerjude Sol Urbach, Schindler "changed his mind about the Nazis. He decided to get out and to save as many Jews as he could."

  • Death

    Death
    Schindler dies at is home in Frankfurt. He is buried in the Latin Cemetery in Jerusalem. He died because of his age (66 years), natural causes (liver failure).