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He was born at April 28th of 1908 in Svitavy -
After attending primary and secondary school, Schindler enrolled in a technical school. He was expelled in 1924 for forging his report card. He later graduated and took courses in Brno. -
In his early life he studied and did some courses of chauffeuring and machinery. He loved motorcycles, and did some competitions with his racing motorcycle. -
He married at 6th March of 1928 with Emilie Pelzl a daughter of a Sudeten German farmer. -
Although he was Czechoslovakian, in 1936, Schindler became a spy for the Abwehr, the military intelligence service of Nazi Germany. He was assigned to Abwehrstelle II Commando VIII, based in Breslau. -
He was arrested by the Czech government for espionage on 18 July 1938 and immediately imprisoned, but was released as a political prisoner under the terms of the Munich Agreement, the instrument under which the Czech Sudetenland was annexed into Germany on 1 October. -
Schindler applied for membership in the Nazi Party on 1 November and was accepted in 1940. -
Schindler accepts jewish workers, seving them from the world war II. -
Hans Frank issues deadline for all but work-essential Jews to depart Krakow voluntarily. There is a mad scramble as Jews search for essential jobs. Through the urging of Stern, Schindler accepts 150 Jews as employees at his factory. -
On 13 March 1943,several thousand not deemed fit for work were sent to extermination camps and murdered; hundreds more were murdered on the streets by the Nazis as they cleared out the ghetto. Schindler witnessed the liquidation of the ghetto and was appalled. From that point forward, says Schindlerjude Sol Urbach, Schindler "changed his mind about the Nazis. He decided to get out and to save as many Jews as he could." -
Schindler dies at is home in Frankfurt. He is buried in the Latin Cemetery in Jerusalem. He died because of his age (66 years), natural causes (liver failure).