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Oskar Schindler

By 18frelighc
  • Birth of Oskar Schindler

    Birth of Oskar Schindler

    Oskar is born at Zwittau, Moravia, which is currently in the Czeck republic.
  • nazi party

    nazi party

    Schindler joins Nazi party

  • War begins

    War breaks out

  • Schindler moves to Svitary

    Schindler moves to Krakow from Svitavy
  • Gets a factory

    Gets a factory

    Takes over a run-down enamelware factory that had previously belonged to a Jew.
  • Kraków ghetto

    Kraków ghetto

    During the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto Schindler allows his Jewish workers to stay at the factory overnight.
  • Subcamp

    Subcamp

    After the SS re-designated Plaszow as a concentration camp, Schindler persuade the SS to convert Emalia into a subcamp of Plaszow

  • Transfers

    SS transferred the Emalia Jews to Plaszow, Schindler sought and obtained authorization to relocate his plant to Brünnlitz (Brnenec) in Moravia, and reopen it exclusively as an armaments factory.
  • The Façade

    The Façade

    The Brünnlitz plant produced just one wagonload of live ammunition in just under eight months of operation. By presenting bogus production figures, Schindler justified the existence of the sub-camp as an armaments factory and thus facilitated the survival of over 1,000 Jews, sparing them the horrors and brutality of conventional camp life. Schindler left Brünnlitz on the day that Soviet troops liberated the camp.
  • Death

    Death

    Schindler died in Germany, penniless and almost unknown. The inscription on his grave says: 'The unforgettable rescuer of 1,200 persecuted Jews".