1. Oskar Schindler
German Businessman
By: Jourdynn Burge

2. Oskar Schindler Born: April 28, 1908
Zwittau, Moravia, Austro-Hungarian Empire
(Now Czech Republic)
Death: October 9, 1974
Frankfurt, Germany
Mother: Louisa – homemaker
Father: Hans – factory worker
Siblings: Elfriede
School: Sudetenland

3. Emilie Schindler Oskar Schindlers wife Married on March 6, 1928
Wedding and celebration
were in an inn on the
outskirts of Zwittau

4. Schindler’s Factory
Schindler employed Jews in his factory to protect them from the Nazis during World War II

5. Facts/Quote 1993 – 9 million Jews lived in Europe
2 out of 3 European Jews had been killed by 1945
1.5 million children were murdered
3.5 million Jews occupied Poland before WWII
Now there are between 3,000-4,000
The Holocaust survivor Abel Herzberg has said: "There were not six million Jews murdered; there was one murder, six million times."

6. Hitler on the Rise
Hitler began stirring up feelings among the Sudeten Germans
They were supposed to be with Germany not Czechoslovakia
Schindler joined the pro-Nazi Sudeten German Party
For business move not out of love

7. Krakow, Poland September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland
Schindler arrived and made friendships with the Wehrmacht (the German army) and the SS (the special armed Nazi unit)
Oskar bought a kitchenware factory and employed Itzhak Stern, a Jewish accountant as the bookkeeper
He searched Krakow’s Jewish communities to employ workers so they didn’t have to leave the city

8. June of 1942 Nazi’s sent Krokow’s Jews to labor camps
Some of his worker’s were on the first list so he mentioned names of his Nazi friends to the SS at the train station
He said they were “essential workers to the war effort”

9. 1943 The “liquidation” of the Krakow ghetto was ordered
Amon Goeth, SS officers, the commandant of the Plaszow forced labor camp was put in charge
Schindler bribed Goeth to allow him to run a mini-labor camp inside his factory and employ his own workers

10. Early 1944 Plaszow's destination was changed
Now sent to concentration camps
Auschwitz
Schindler’s factory ordered to close so he went to Goeth and once again bribed him
His factory was going to move to Czechoslovakia to continue to supply the Third Reich (Hitler’s army)
He was to make a list of who he wanted to take with him

11. The List Matter of life or death 1,100 names
All employees of the Emalia
camp and others

12. Fall 1944
Moved his factory to Brunnlitz, Czechoslovakia by making bribes
Pazlow camp liquidation began in October
800 men shipped in boxcars to Brunnlitz
300 women and children were sent to Auschwitz by mistake
Schindler rescued them and sent them to Brunnlitz also
His factory never produced a single shell over the next 7 months
Purposefully sabotaged the machines so they would fail quality tests

13. The War Ends
May 8, 1945
Germany surrenders
Called meeting with workers in factory to tell them the war had ended
Moment of silence for the dead
Him and his wife fled west to avoid Russian troops
The 1,200 or more Schindlerjuden ("Shindler's Jews") were freed from the factory by a Russian officer

14. After World War II Failed businesses Overspending Drinking
Love affairs
1949 moved to Argentina and went bankrupt
Relied on B'nai B'rith, Jewish charity, to survive
1958 abandoned wife and moved back to West Germany

15. After World War II
Started a cement business in Frankfurt, Germany but it failed in 1961
Visited Israel every year for a couple of weeks to visit the Schindlerjuden and their families

16. 1962 54 birthday Declared a “Righteous Gentile”
Non-Jew
Planted a tree on the Avenue of the Righteous
Led to Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Museum
Memorial to the Holocaust
Name of the liquidation by Germans during World War II

17. 1974 Oskar Schindler died from heart and liver problems
Hildesheim, Germany
Wanted to be buried in Israel
Mount Zion, Jerusalem
About five hundred Schindlerjuden were present
Saved more than 6,000 people including Holocaust survivors and their future ancestors

18. Oskar Schindler

19. Sources www.notablebiographies.com http://www.oskarschindler.org