Oskar Schindler

Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist who used his factories and influence to save more than 1,000 Jews from Nazi persecution during the Holocaust.

Emilie Schindler: Emilie Schindler was a German humanitarian who helped her husband rescue Jews during the Holocaust. She helped provide food, medicine, and shelter to Jewish workers at Schindler’s factories.
Schindlerjuden: Schindlerjuden are the Jews whom Oskar Schindler protected from deportation and murder by employing them. They were the people whose survival depended on Schindler’s factories and interventions.
German occupation of Poland: German occupation of Poland began with the invasion of September 1939 and lasted until the Soviet advance in 1944–1945. Occupation created the system of dispossession and forced labor Schindler later exploited to protect workers.
Schindler's Ark: Schindler’s Ark is Thomas Keneally’s 1982 historical novel about Oskar Schindler and the Jews he saved. The novel brought Schindler’s wartime story to a broad international audience.
Itzhak Stern: Itzhak Stern was a Jewish accountant who worked with Oskar Schindler in Kraków during the Holocaust. He helped Schindler recruit Jewish workers and organize the lists that protected them.
Schindler's List: Schindler’s List was a roster of Jewish workers designated for transfer to Oskar Schindler’s factory in Brünnlitz. Inclusion on the roster helped move workers away from Plaszów and other immediate dangers.
Holocaust: The Holocaust was the Nazi-led persecution and murder of six million European Jews during World War II. Schindler’s rescue took place within the genocide that threatened the people he employed.
Schindler's List (film): Schindler’s List is Steven Spielberg’s 1993 historical drama about Oskar Schindler and the Holocaust. The film made Schindler’s rescue story globally prominent and shaped its popular memory.
Amon Göth: Amon Göth was the SS commandant of the Plaszów concentration camp, known for extreme brutality. Schindler negotiated with Göth to keep Jewish workers assigned to his factories.
Brünnlitz labor camp: Brünnlitz was a labor camp in occupied Czechoslovakia that housed Jewish workers employed by Oskar Schindler. Schindler relocated his workers there in 1944, keeping them together under his protection.

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Rescue of Jews during the HolocaustBroader topic: His factories and influence protected workers from deportation and murder.