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Oskar Schindler was born on April 28, 1908 in Svitavy (Zwittau), Moravia, at that time a province of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
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The First World War begins. Austria-Hungary joins with Germany to fight France, Britain, Italy.
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First World War ends with collapse of three empires: Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary. Moravia, which included Schindler's hometown of Zwittau, is detached from Austria and annexed by the new republic of Czechoslovakia.
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Schindler works as salesman for his father's farm-machinery factory.
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Oskar schindler marries Emily Pelzl
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Schindler races motorcycle, a Moto-Guzzi, in high class competition.
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Hitler is appointed Reichschancellor in Germany.
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Schindler joins German military intelligence, Abwehr, under Admiral Canaris. As a salesman, Schindler travels to southern Poland and reports to Abwehr regarding points of military importance in Poland. His affiliation with Abwehr excuses Schindler from military service.
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This was known as "the Night of Broken Glass" Jewish synogouges and shops destroyed by Nazis all thourghout Germany
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German troops occupy the rump state of Czechoslovakia and enter Prague to the gloom of the populace. Slovakia becomes a cooperative satellite of the Nazis. The Czech lands of Bohemia and Moravia are absorbed into the Reich and named the Reichsprotectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
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German troops attack Poland. Three and a half million Jews live in Poland.
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The Nazis establish Krakow as the seat of their General Government of occupied Poland. Hans Frank, Hitler's lawyer, is designated Reichsfuehrer of Nazi-occupied Poland. He orders the "voluntary" departure of all but "work-essential" Jews from Krakow. After several months, the Germans took matters into their own hands and expelled 32,000 Jews to Warsaw, Lodz, other Polish cities, and the nearby countryside.
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Schindler opens Deutsche Emailwaren Fabrik factory at 4 Lipowa Street in Krakow neighborhood of Zablocie.
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Hitler attacks and conquers western Europe.
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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.
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Jewish ghetto established in Krakow in neighborhood of Podgorze. As historian Lucy Dawidowicz has written, "The Krakow ghetto was enclosed within walls in the form of Jewish tombstones, symbols of a terrifyingly literal character."
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Beginning of first Krakow deportation to Belzec.
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Schindler goes to Krakow train station to rescue his office manager, Abraham Bankier, and other workers from deportation to Belzec. In the film, Itzhak Stern is given the role of the rescued.
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Seven thousand Jews are deported from Krakow ghetto. In the afternoon, Schindler rents two horses and he and his mistress watch the SS's liquidation of ghetto from a nearby hill.
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Schindler travles to Budapest, Hungary to check on the jews of Hungary
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Jews are moved to Aswitz clearing the ghetto of Podgorze
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Plaszow camp is closed, including Schindlers subcamp. Everyone, including those on the "List" are sent away. In the Fall he opens a munitions factory in Brinnlitz, Czecholovakia, using the workers from Plaszow
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Brinnlitz facroty gets 150 Jewish workers intended for a mine in Golleshau, Poland. They may have frozen to death
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Schindler, his wife, and some Jews flee to the American front
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Schindlers jews give Schindler gold ring. The gold is extracted from the bridge in a prisoner's mouth and engraved with the inscription: "He who saves a single life saves the entire world."
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Oskar and Emilie immigrate to Argentina
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Schindler leaves his wife and returns to Gernamy after the nutria-raising enterprise fails
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Schindler dies at is home in Frankfurt. He is buried in the Latin Cemetery in Jerusalem
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