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Oskar Schindler

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Oskar Schindler

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German industrialist and Holocaust rescuer (1908–1974)

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Oskar Schindler was a male entrepreneur, industrialist, and salesperson of Sudeten German ethnicity. Born in Svitavy, he held citizenship in Nazi Germany and West Germany. His political affiliations included membership in the Nazi Party and the Sudeten German Party. Schindler spoke German, Czech, Polish, and Spanish, and identified as a lapsed Catholic within the Latin Church.

He was married to Emilie Schindler. Schindler received the Righteous Among the Nations, the Order of St. Sylvester, and the Order of St. Gregory the Great. He died of liver failure from natural causes in Hildesheim in 1974 and was buried on Mount Zion.

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Person · Open Library

Works
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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Germany
Active from
1988-09-07
germanhip hoprap

Discography

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Listeners
42
Total plays
62

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>

    · 2017 · cited 3,669x

  2. LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products

    · 2019 · cited 3,504x

  3. Forecasting Agriculturally Driven Global Environmental Change

    · 2001 · cited 3,021x

  4. ISB recommendation on definitions of joint coordinate system of various joints for the reporting of human joint motion—part I: ankle, hip, and spine

    · 2002 · cited 2,675x

  5. Donanemab in Early Symptomatic Alzheimer Disease

    · 2023 · cited 2,651x

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Quotes

  • “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.”
  • “I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings.”
  • “I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more.”
  • “What is there to say? They are my friends. I would do it again, over and over — for I hate cruelty and intolerance.”
  • “Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen. I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.”
  • “There was no choice. If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?”

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Encyclopedic overview

Oskar Schindler ( German: [ˈɔskaʁ ˈʃɪndlɐ] ; 28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) 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.

Schindler grew up in Zwittau, Moravia, and worked in several trades until he joined the Abwehr, the military intelligence service of Nazi Germany, in 1936. Before the beginning of the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1938, he collected information on railways and troop movements for the German government. He was arrested for espionage by the Czechoslovak government but was released under the terms of the Munich Agreement that year. He continued to collect information for the Nazis, working in Poland in 1939 before the invasion of Poland at the start of the Second World War. He joined the Nazi Party in 1939. That same year, he acquired an enamelware factory in Kraków, Poland, which employed at its peak in 1944 about 1,750 workers, of whom 1,000 were Jews. His Abwehr connections helped him protect his Jewish workers from deportation and death in the Nazi concentration camps. As time went on, he had to give Nazi officials ever larger bribes and gifts of luxury items obtainable only on the black market to keep his workers safe.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oskar Schindler” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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