Oskar Schindler: a man who saved the lives of many
In February of 1939, five months after the German annexation of the Sudetenland, Oskar Schindler joined the Nazi party. When Schindler worked at Auschwitz he saved more than 1,000 Jews from being sent to death. After Germany invaded Poland Schindler moved to Krakow were he sent up two more factories. There were 1,700 Jewish people working the factory. Schindler tried to save as many Jews as he could. He tried to keep them in his factor for as long as he could. He would bribe other S.S. officers to ask them to let him keep his Jewish workers. Schindler knew that liquidation happened often he tried to know about them ahead of time. On the night of the Krakow liquidation he let his workers stay over night ,so they would be safe. While protecting the Jewish people Schindler was suspected for helping them and not being loyal to the Nazis. Schindler was arrested three times but was not charged. In October of 1944 Schindler wanted to move his factories to Brünnlitz (Brnenec) in Moravia. He was able to move and his assistant wrote down all of the names of the Jewish people that were going to be working in the factory. This list became known as the famous "Schindler's List." On his list, the people that worked in the factories, were 800 men from Plaszow and between 300 and 400 women from Auschwitz. Schindler heard the camp was going to get liberated and he fled on May 9th, 1945. The next day the camp was liberated by the Soviet Union. After the war Schindler and his wife moved back to German for four years then they moved to Argentina. In 1957 Schindler returned to German by himself because Emily, his wife, and him were separated. In 1962, Schindler won the title "Righteous Among the Nations" because of his efforts to save the Jews. In October 1974 Schindler died in German poor and unknown. The Jews people that did remember him buried him in Israel. The United States Holocaust Memorial Council the Museum's Medal of Remembrance to Schindler in 1993. Since Schindler had already passed his ex-wife Emily accepted the award on his behalf. In 1993 Schindler was most recognized in the Steven Spielberg's 1993 film Schindler's List. The movie is based on the 1983 novel written by Thomas Keneally that toked about Schindler and his efforts to save the Jews.
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