Question..Who was oskar schindler?

Question

yeah i am kind of doing a report on him so i need to know what he did in his life
if you can send me a link to a website about him
i would really appreciate that thanks

Answer 1

Hi Patrick,
I think Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia tell all you'll need. Good Luck

Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was a Sudeten German industrialist credited with saving as many as 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust, by having them work in his enamelware and ammunitions factories located in Poland and what is now the Czech Republic. He was the subject of the book Schindler's Ark, and the film based on it, Schindler's List.

Early life
Oskar Schindler was born on 28 April 1908 in Zwittau to Hans Schindler and his wife Franziska Luser, Moravia, Austria-Hungary (now Svitavy, Czech Republic). He was born into a Catholic family. His parents divorced when Oskar was 27, the source of his resentment towards his father. Oskar was very close to his older sister, Elfriede. After school he worked as a commercial salesman. In the 1930s he changed jobs several times. He also tried starting various businesses, but soon went bankrupt because of the Great Depression. Though a citizen of Czechoslovakia, Schindler started to work for German military intelligence service (Abwehr). He was exposed and jailed in summer 1938, but after the Munich Agreement he was set free as a political prisoner. Then he continued with work for Abwehr, paving the way for the German agression against Poland. In late 1939 Schindler joined the Nazi Party.

On 6 March 1928 Schindler married Emilie Pelzl (1907-2001) [1], daughter of Josef and Maria Pelzl. The marriage was childless.

^ Emilie Pelzl (1907-2001) was born on 22 October 1907 and died on 5 October 2001.

World War II
An opportunistic businessman, he was one of many who sought to profit from the German invasion of Poland in 1939. Schindler gained ownership of a factory in Kraków from a Jewish industrialist named Nathan Wurzel (see the Aryanization).


Schindler's factory at Krakow in 2006Schindler, on Wurzel's advice, renamed the factory Deutsche Emaillewaren-Fabrik, or DEF, to manufacture enamelware. He obtained around 1,000 Jewish slave labourers to work there with the help of his Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern. When Stern and Schindler were first introduced to each other, Schindler held out his hand. Stern declined to take it. When Schindler asked why, he explained that he was a Jew and it was forbidden for a Jew to shake a German's hand. Schindler answered with a German profanity, the scatological term "Scheiße". Initially Schindler may have been motivated by money — hiding wealthy Jewish investors, for instance — but later he began shielding his workers without regard to cost. He would, for instance, claim that unskilled workers were essential to the factory. Harming his workers would result in complaints and demands for compensation from the government.

While witnessing a 1942 raid on the Kraków Ghetto, where soldiers were used to round up the inhabitants for shipment to the concentration camp at Plaszow, Schindler was appalled by the murder of many of the Jews who had been working for him. He was a very persuasive individual, and after the raid, increasingly used all of his skills to protect his Schindlerjuden (Schindler's Jews). Schindler went out of his way to take care of the Jews who worked at DEF, often calling on his legendary charm and ingratiating manner to help his workers get out of difficult situations. Once, says author Eric Silver in The Book of the Just, "Two Gestapo men came to his office and demanded that he hand over a family of five who had bought forged Polish identity papers. 'Three hours after they walked in,' Schindler said, 'two drunk Gestapo men reeled out of my office without their prisoners and without the incriminating documents they had demanded'". Schindler also reportedly began to smuggle children out of the ghetto, delivering them to Polish nuns, who either hid them from the Nazis or claimed they were Christian orphans. He arranged with Amon Göth, the commandant of Plaszow, for 700 Jews to be transferred to an adjacent factory compound, where they would be relatively safe from the depredations of the German guards.


Schindler's factory at Brněnec in 2004Schindler was arrested twice on suspicion of black market activities and complicity in embezzlement. The commandant Amon Göth and other SS-guards used Jewish property (such as money, jewelery, art works etc.) for themselves although, according to law, it belonged to Reich. Schindler mediated the sale on black market and also preserved many stolen items. He was investigated but managed both times to avoid being jailed. Schindler would typically bribe government officials to avoid investigation. When the advance of the Red Army threatened to liberate the concentration camps, almost all were destroyed and a majority of the inmates murdered. Schindler, however, in October 1944 moved 1,000 workers to Brněnec-Brünnlitz in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, where he gained another former jewish factory. Here he started to produce segments for anti-aircraft munition. In January 1945 Schindler assumed about 100 prisoners from the concentration camp Goleszow. There survived 1098 (up to 1100) Jewish workers in the concentration camp Brněnec. Brněnec was liberated by Red Army in May 8, 1945. Schindler, accompanied by his wife and some prominent Jews, left the factory before the Red Army's arrival.

Schindler can be viewed as going through three stages in his career: a first stage where he was primarily interested in making money, a second stage where he wanted to make money, protect his workers, and be safe himself, and a third stage where he realized that he would not be able to achieve these three goals, that he would have to make a choice, and he chose to protect his workers.

After the war
Oskar Schindler's graveAt the end of the war, Schindler emigrated to Argentina. He went bankrupt and returned to Germany in 1958, to a series of unsuccessful business ventures. Schindler settled down in a little apartment at Am Hauptbahnhof Nr. 4 in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany and tried—again with help from the Jewish organization—to establish a cement factory. This went bankrupt in 1961. His business partner cancelled their partnership, saying, “…now it is clear that you are a friend of Jews and I will not work together with you anymore…”

Oskar Schindler died in Hildesheim, Germany, on 9 October 1974, at the age of 66. He was buried at the Catholic
Cemetery at Mount Zion in Jerusalem


No one really knows what Schindler's motives were. However, he was quoted as saying "I knew the people who worked for me... When you know people, you have to behave toward them like human beings."

Legacy
Liam Neeson portraying SchindlerIn 1967, Schindler was honored at Israel's Yad Vashem memorial to the victims of the Holocaust as one of the Righteous Among the Nations, or "righteous Gentiles", an honor awarded by Israel to non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust at great personal risk. Schindler was the only former member of the Nazi party to be so recognized by the planting of a tree in his name at the Yad Vashem Memorial.
Schindler's story, retold by Holocaust survivor Poldek Pfefferberg, was the basis for Tom Keneally's book Schindler's Ark (the novel was later renamed Schindler's List), which was adapted into the 1993 movie Schindler's List by Steven Spielberg. In the film, he is played by Liam Neeson, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal. The film went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
The prominence of Spielberg's film introduced Schindler into popular culture. As the film is the sole source of most people's knowledge of Schindler, he is generally perceived much as Spielberg's film depicts him: as a man who was instinctively driven by profit-driven amorality, but who at some point made a silent but conscious decision that preserving the lives of his Jewish employees was imperative, even if requiring massive payments to induce Nazis to turn a blind eye. While Spielberg's film takes some cinematic liberties, the depiction of Schindler appears to be a rare example of an unromanticized historical protagonist. Schindler did in fact spend the majority of his wealth, and forever alienated himself from any political standing in his own country, to save the lives of his Jewish workers.

Answer 2

I'm not going to give you all the answers but I'll give you an overview of what I know.
Oskar Schindler was a member of the Nazi Party. He bought a factory and he needed laborers. Money was short. In fact, he couldn't pay them. However with permission from the Nazi leaders, he employed Jewish people. Later on, when the war was becoming intense, when they liquidated the Ghetto, many Jewish refugees begged Schindler for their safe refuge and their family.
Seeing that he needed a bigger factory, he bribed other Nazi leaders for money to construct a bigger factory. In his home town of Czechoslavokia, he had well ovr 10,000 Jewish who were working for them.

Answer 3

Oskar or Oscar Schindler ran a production facility in Nazi Germany. He employed Jews in the process the conflict as much inexpensive exertions. an ingredient effect replace into that he saved their lives. in direction of the tip of the conflict he began to sense undesirable approximately what replace into happening around him and he helped his workers get away Nazi Germany. For a extra thourough account watch Schindler's record or examine the radical. you additionally can get his biography.

Answer 4

Type "oskar Schindler" into google at least 50 pages of stuff.

Answer 5

Get or rent the movie Schlinder's List. In addition to the movie, it's got some facts and interviews with some of the people he saved from the holocaust. That should give you a starting point.

Answer 6

Watch the Movie Schindler's list. Then do your research.

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Answer 8

He was a German businessman during world war two. He bankrupted himself saving hundreds of jews from the camps. You need to find a holocaust web site.