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Oskar Schindler

German industrialist and Holocaust rescuer (1908–1974)

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Oskar Schindler was a German businessman during World War II who saved over a thousand Jewish lives by employing them in his factories and protecting them from Nazi persecution. His story matters because it stands as a remarkable example of individual moral courage during the Holocaust, demonstrating that some people chose to resist and help even at great personal risk.

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Oskar Schindler appears in Vinony's Righteous Among the Nations collection — one of 28,653 entries.

Vinony's link graph records 289 inbound references to Oskar Schindler, and connects out to list of Righteous among the Nations by country, Schutzstaffel and Svitavy.

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It is catalogued under topics including 1908 births, 1974 deaths and 20th-century German businesspeople.

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

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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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Official website: www.oskarschindler.com
Image: Schindler, Oskar.jpg

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Commons category: Oskar Schindler
date of death: 1974-10-09
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name in native language: Oskar Schindler
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date of birth: 1908-04-28

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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.

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