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Marriage. Emilie Pelzl first met Oskar Schindler in 1928, when he came to Alt Moletein to sell electric motors to her father. After dating for six weeks, the couple married on 6 March 1928 in an inn on the outskirts of Svitavy, Schindler's hometown. [4]
Jan 24, 2023 · The black market did not always meet the Schindlers' needs, however. On one occasion, desperate for food, Emilie took the chance of reaching out to a local aristocrat's wife, Frau von Daubek, and begging for grain from her mill. Emilie reportedly felt she had no choice.
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After a courtship of six weeks, they were married on March 6, 1928, in an inn on the outskirts of Zwittau, Oscar's hometown. Emilie's father had given Oscar a dowry of 100.000 Czech crowns, a considerable sum in those days, and he soon bought a luxury car and squandered the rest on outings.
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- Oskar Schindler's Life before World War II. Born a Catholic of German ethnicity in 1908 in what is today the Czech Republic (formerly Austria-Hungary), Oskar Schindler attended multiple trade schools and then spent several years attempting to establish himself as a businessman, doing everything from selling government property, to starting a driving school, to selling farm equipment.
- The Emalia Factory in Kraków. Wasting no time, Schindler relocated to Kraków in October 1939, after Germany had invaded and started occupying Poland. “He moved into an area where a lot of factories and industries had been shut down or Aryanized,” Randall explains, referring to the Nazi policy of seizing Jewish-owned property and transferring it to non-Jews.
- Schindler’s List. When the Jews working in the Emalia factory were transferred to Plaszow in the fall of 1944, Schindler lobbied for and was granted permission to relocate his munitions manufacturing operations to Brünnlitz (Brněnec), a town near where he grew up in what was then the Sudetenland, where it would be classified as a subcamp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp.
- Schindler's Wife, Emilie. Though her role is often diminished, or omitted from the narrative altogether, Schindler’s wife Emilie (who wed the businessman in 1928) was also involved in saving the lives of the Jewish factory workers, Randall says—particularly after the establishment of the factory in Brünnlitz.
In the movie “Schindler’s List,” Emilie Schindler was portrayed as the long-suffering wife of a man who did great good but had a fondness for high living, and a straying eye, that few spouses...
Oct 7, 2001 · Emilie Schindler, the wife of industrialist Oskar Schindler who played an important role in his efforts to save hundreds of Jews from Nazi death camps during World War II, has died. She was 93.
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Aug 14, 2022 · See a documentary film on the Schindler story. Then learn behind-the-scenes stories from our distinguished panel, including Dr. Paldiel, Schindler’s biographer Dr. David Crowe, and Marie P. Knecht, the daughter of survivors of Schindler’s famous list.
