Youtube Links Oscar Shindler
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He was born on April 28,1908. Oscar Schindler served in the Czechoslovak army and in 1938 attained the rank of lance corporal in the reserves.He began working with the Amt Auslands/Abwehr of the German armed Forces in 1936.He later joined the Nazi Party in 1939. The Germans decimated the ghetto’s population of some 20,000 Jews through shootings and deportations. Several thousand Jews who survived the ghetto’s liquidation were taken to Plaszow, a forced labor camp run by the sadistic SS commandant Amon Leopold Goeth. Schindler contrived to transfer his Jewish workers to barracks at his factory.During World War II,he rescued more than 1,000 Jews from deportation to Auschwitz, Nazi Germany’s largest killing center.Schindler moved to Krakow from Svitavy in October 1939.He took over a run down factory that had belonged to a Jew.He acquired the Emalia factory.It produced enamel goods and munitions to supply the German front the removal of Jews to death camps began in earnest.His Jewish accountant put him in touch with the few Jews with wealth. He watched innocent people being packed onto trains bound for deaths,then something awakened him. In 1944 Germany’s hold on Poland had weakened.After the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto and the transfer of many Jews to the Plaszow Concentration camps,Schindler used his influence to set up a branch of the camp for about 900 Jewish workers in his factory compound in Zablocie.Schindler and his workforce set up a bogus munitions factory, which sustained them in relative safety until the war ended.After that he mad his famous list of the workers he would need for its operation. The factory operated in its new location a year,making defective bullets for German guns. Schindler saved most of these workers when he transferred his factory to Brunnlitz in October 1944. He died on October 9, 1974.