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Oskar Schindler’s deeds during the Holocaust period have received considerable coverage, mainly since the release of the film “Schindler’s List” in 1993. There is much original documentation about the man and his activities, such as material about the concentration/labor camp Plaszow, where most of the people he saved were inmates. In the course of his ...
67832 - 77196. Number of Persons (Exact): 1098. Place of Incarceration: Brünnlitz [concentration camp], Sudetenland. Notes: Created from information on two separate lists of Schindler's inmates; William Leibner provided a copy of the April 1945 list to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Keyword: "Berufsverbrecher" (career criminal)
- He was a lifelong opportunist and alcoholic. Oskar Schindler was born on April 28, 1908 in the Austro-Hungarian province of Moravia. His father was a Sudeten German who operated a farm machinery company; of his mother little is known.
- Schindler was an supporter of Nazism years before the Czechoslovakia crisis. In the 1930s a growing sect of the Nazi Party developed among the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia, which had itself been created when it declared independence from Austria-Hungary near the end of the First World War.
- Schindler became a full member of the Nazi Party in 1939. Schindler was arrested for espionage in July of 1938. While he was imprisoned the crisis over the Sudetenland reached its climactic point.
- Schindler acquired a factory formerly owned by Jewish businessmen. In October 1939 Oskar Schindler was dispatched to the Polish city of Krakow, which had been overrun by the German army the preceding month, on orders from the Abwehr.
Sep 5, 2024 · Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. Watch on. Oskar Schindler's journey from Nazi Party member to savior of over 1,200 Jews is a remarkable tale of moral transformation.
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The city of Kraków, located in southern Poland, was once theroyal capital of the kingdom. About 60,000 Jews lived therein 1939 out of a population of 250,000 people. Most of theJews resided in the old historical section of Kazimierz. The Germans occupied the city on September 6, 1939. Shortly thereafter, Hitler appointed Frank as the ruler of occup...
This database includes 1,980 names of individuals combined fromtwo separate lists: 1. List A:Last and final list of Schindler's inmates fromBruennlitz, Czechoslovakia, printed in April, 1945. The inmates were sent to Czechoslovakia from the camp at Plaszów,Poland. The Bruennlitz camp was liberated by the RussianRed Army in 1945. 2. List B: This lis...
The names contained in this database were transliterated by BillLiebner from the list of names published in the Hebrew Press. (The paper in question is no longer in existence and has beenout of print for many years.) Bill Leibner donated this list to JewishGen. USHMMprovided List B. In addition, thanks to JewishGen Inc. for providing the websiteand...
Index to and facsimiles of of two unalphabetized lists dated 18 Apr. 1945 of Jewish inmates in the Brünnlitz subcamp of Gross Rosen. This listing is believed to be the complete listing of the Jews who also appeared on an earlier "Schindler's list" as depicted in the famous motion picture, the location of which remains unknown.
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Created from information on two separate lists of Schindler's inmates; William Leibner provided a. 2. "SCHINDLER'S LIST" NAME INDEX WITH LINE AND LIST NUMBER : USHMM REGISTRY GR0306, USHMM ARCHIVES RG-20.003*01 / indexed by the Registry (ID: 31130) Washington, D.C. :USHMM Archives collections associated with Schindler (RG-20.003*01
