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Oskar Schindler
Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist and humanitarian who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in German-occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. He is the subject of the 1982 novel Schindler's Ark and its 1993 film adaptation, Schindler's List.
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business · German industrialist and humanitarian (1908–1974) · entrepreneur · industrialist · salesperson · businessperson · resistance fighter · factory owner · also Oskar Schindler, Schindler
Born 28 April 1908 · Died 9 October 1974 · Q60029
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2025· 1 entry
2022· 1 entry
NDTV: Oskar Schindler's Secretary, Who Helped Him Save Jews During Holocaust, Dies
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2020· 1 entry
The Times of Israel: Steven Spielberg mistook Oskar Schindler’s wife for a Jew she saved
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2018· 2 entries
Forbes: Oskar Schindler's Enamel Factory in Krakow Is A Must-See
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Fox News: Youngest person saved by Oskar Schindler: 'I feel guilty that I survived'
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2016· 2 entries
Smithsonian Magazine: Oskar Schindler’s Factory Will Become a Holocaust Memorial
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Page Six: Intimate Oskar Schindler letter up for sale
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2015· 1 entry
New York Daily News: Argentinian woman sues Holocaust museum for Oskar Schindler’s lists
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2010· 2 entries
“Schindler: Why did he do it?”
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“Schindler : Why did he do it?”
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1999· 1 entry
By Wolfgang Borgmann, science editor of the Stuttgarter Zeitung
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1997· 1 entry
A suitcase belonging to Schindler containing historic photographs and documents was discovered in the attic of the apartment of Ami and Heinrich Staehr in Hildesheim
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1994· 1 entry
As Schindler: The Real Story), and a 1998 A&E Biography special, Oskar Schindler: The Man Behind the List
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded Righteous Among the Nations (1993).
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1980· 2 entries
By Pfefferberg when he was persuading him to write Schindler's story
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The Australian author Thomas Keneally by chance visited Pfefferberg's luggage store in Beverly Hills, California, while en route home from a film festival in Europe, and Pfefferberg told him Schindler's story
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1974· 2 entries
Died 1974-10-09.
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“I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings.”
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded Order of St. Sylvester (1968).
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1965· 1 entry
Awarded Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1965).
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1964· 1 entry
Schindler received a US$20,000 (equivalent to $208,000 in 2025) advance from MGM for a proposed film treatment titled To the Last Hour
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1963· 1 entry
And suffered a heart attack the next year, which led to a month-long hospital stay
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1958· 2 entries
Left his wife and returned to Germany, where he had a series of unsuccessful business ventures, including a cement factory
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Schindler left his wife and returned to Germany, where he failed at several business ventures and relied on financial support from Schindlerjuden ("Schindler Jews")—the people whose lives he had saved during the war
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1951· 1 entry
Poldek Pfefferberg approached the Austrian filmmaker Fritz Lang and asked him to consider making a film about Schindler
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1949· 1 entry
Schindler emigrated to Argentina, where he tried raising chickens and then nutria (coypu), a small animal raised for its fur
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1948· 2 entries
Presented a claim for reimbursement of his wartime expenses to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and received US$15,000
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Wrote: "Schindler's exceptional deeds stemmed from just that elementary sense of decency and humanity that our sophisticated age seldom sincerely believes in
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1944· 2 entries
About 1,750 workers, of whom 1,000 were Jews
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The business employed around 1,750 workers, a thousand of whom were Jews
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1943· 1 entry
Schindler was contacted by Zionist leaders in Budapest via members of the Jewish resistance movement
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1940· 2 entries
“two drunk Gestapo men reeled out of my office without their prisoners and without the incriminating documents they had demanded.”
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And moved to Kraków to live with Oskar in 1941
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1939· 2 entries
Before the invasion of Poland at the start of the Second World War
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“The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways. In 1939, they were forced to wear Jewish stars, and people were herded and shut up into ghettos. Then, in the years '41 and '42 there was plenty of public evidence of pure sadism. With people behaving like pigs, I felt the Jews were being destroyed. I had to help them. There was no choice.”
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1938· 1 entry
Collected information on railways and troop movements for the German government
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1908· 1 entry
Born 1908-04-28.
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