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Biography of Oskar SchindlerName: Oskar SchindlerBirth Date: April 28, 1908 Death Date: October 9, 1974 Place of Birth: Zwittau, Moravia, Austro-Hungarian Empire Nationality: German Gender: Male Occupations: businessman Oskar Schindler German businessman Oskar Schindler (1908-1974) saved Jews in Poland and Czechoslovakia from death at the hands of the Nazis during World War II by employing them in his factory.Oskar Schindler was the unlikeliest of heroes--indifferent to religion and politics, partial to gambling and drinking, and not averse to skirting the law in his many business ventures. Yet to the eleven hundred Jews whose lives he saved during World War II, he was nothing less than a saint. Until the 1980s, his name was barely known outside the world of Holocaust survivors. Thanks to a book and then a movie about his exploits, however, he has taken his place among those the Israelis call "Righteous Gentiles"--non-Jews who took great risks to ensure the safety of Jews doomed by the Nazis' "Final Solution."Schindler was born in 1908 in the industrial city of Zwittau, Moravia, then a German province of the …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…Avenue of the Righteous leading up to Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Museum, a memorial to the Holocaust. Upon his death from heart and liver problems in 1974, he was granted his request to be buried in Israel. About five hundred Schindlerjuden attended his funeral and watched as his body was laid to rest in the Catholic cemetery on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. Thanks to Oskar Schindler, more than six thousand Holocaust survivors and their descendants were alive in the 1990s to tell the remarkable story of "Schindler's List" and of the equally amazing man who compiled it. Associated Events Holocaust, 1933-1945 Further Reading Brecher, Elinor J., True Stories of the List Survivors, Dutton, 1994.Keneally, Thomas, Schindler's List (historical novel), Simon & Schuster, 1982.American Health, June, 1994.Christian Century, February 16, 1994.Entertainment Weekly, December 17, 1993.Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, December 28, 1993.Maclean's, January 17, 1994.People, March 21, 1994, pp. 40-44.Saturday Night, April, 1994.Time, December 13, 1993, pp. 75-77.Schindler's List (motion picture), Amblin Entertainment, 1993. |