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Birth-Death
Schindler was born April 28th, 1908 and died in 1974. He grew up in Svitavy, Moravia, which was in the Austro-Hungarian providence. -
Life before the party.
He worked in his father's farm machinery business in Svitavy, selling property in Brno, and opening a driving school in Sumperk. In 1938, he was in the Czechoslovakia army, then in 1936, he worked for the German Armed Forces. February of 1939, he joined the Nazi Party. -
A good man
More than 1,000 were rescued by him during World War II on the way to Auschwitz, which is Germany's largest killing center. He also operated two factories in Krakow. One of the factories named Emalia, he hired Jewish works that lived close to the Krakow Ghetto; 1,000 out of the 1,700 workers were Jews. -
Jewish workers and concentration camps
In March of 1943, workers of Emalia were forced to go to a concentration camps called "Krakau-Plaszow," after its liquidation. In 1944, he added an armaments manufacturing division to Emalia, which allowed his Jewish workers to stay at the factory overnight. -
Persuasion
To save lives of Jewish workers, he turned Emalia into a subcamp. As much as 1,000 Jews registered as a factory worker then. He allowed 450 other Jews from close factories to stay at Emalia. Oskar was arrested three times for doing this. -
Relocation
He relocated his camp to Brünnlitz, in Moravia of 1944; 1,200 Jews were needed to work in his new factory. From Plaszow, 800 Jewish men came and 300-400 women came. -
Leaving Brünnlitz behind
Brünnlitz was full of people in just 8 months of opening. He left on May 9th, 1945, which was the day the Soviet troops came into the camp. -
Separate ways
Schindler and his wife, Emilie, moved to Regensburg, Germany. In 1949, they moved to Argentina and went separate ways in 1959. He went back to Germany alone and received the title "Righteous Among the Nations" in 1962, because he saved Jews during the holocaust. His wife was honored almost the same way in 1993. -
Almost unknown
Schindler almost died unknown in Germany in October of 1974. The ones he saved during WWII, financed and moved his body to Israel for his burial. -
Remembrance
The United States Holocaust Memorial Counsil showed the Museum's Medal of Remembrance of Schindler in 1993. His ex-wife, Emilie, accepted the medal at the Museum's Hall of Remembrance.
