Oskar+Schindler

= Oskar Schindler (rescuer) =

Oskar Schindler was born on April 28, 1908 in Svitavy, Moravia and has the nationality of German. In 1935, even though he was a citizen to Czechoslovakia, he started to work for German military intelligence. In 1938 he was jailed by the Czech government and then in the same year, set free do to the Munich Agreement. In 1939 he ended up joining the Nazi Party. He tried to profit from the German invasion of Poland in 1939 as well. He gained ownership of an idle [|enamelware] factory in [|Krakow] from a bankruptcy court, and renamed the factory Deutsche Emaillewaren-Fabrik, or DEF. With the help of his German speaking Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern he obtained around 1,000 Jewish forced laborers to work there. At first Schindler may have been motivated by money because Jewish labor was least costly, but later he began shielding his workers without regard for cost. As an example, he would say that unskilled workers were essential to the factory. In 1942, while seeing a raid on the Krakow Ghetto, where soldiers were used to round up the inhabitants for shipment to the concentration camp at [|Płaszów], Schindler was appalled by the murder of many of the Jews who had been working for him. After seeing that; he started to protect his own workers by using his charm and manners to get them out of tough situations. I saw Oskar Schindler as a rescuer because he was able to save around 1,200 Jewish workers. Even though he was at first motivated by money and didn’t care about his workers. His impact was that he saved around 1,200 people who today, have had kids and made that number 10,000 people. So without him, those 1,200 people who he saved and their 8,800 kids would not have existed.

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