Oskar Schindler

Birthday

Apr 28, 1908

Oskar was born into a Sudeten German family.

Marriage

Mar 6, 1928

Schindler married Emilie Pelzl, moving in with Oskar's parents and having the upstairs rooms.

Bankrupt

Jan 1, 1931

Schindler returned to Moravian Electrotechnic and went bankrupt shortly afterwards. His father's farm machinery business closed, making Schindler unemployed for a year.

Czech police arrest

Jul 18, 1938

Oscar was arrested by the Czech police for spying. He claimed he only did it because he needed the money.

Kraków

Oct 1, 1939

Schindler first arrived in Kraków for Abwehr business and took an apartment the next month. Emilie(his wife) kept the apartment in Ostrava and visited Oskar in Kraków at least once a week.

Leopold Pfefferberg

Nov 1, 1939

Oscar asked Mila Pfefferberg to decorate his new apartment. Mila's son, Leopold "Poldek" Pfefferberg, became one of his contacts for black market trading, becoming forever friends.

Płaszów

Mar 1, 1943

two Jewish cemeteries on Jerozilimska Street, about 2.5 kilometres from the DEF factory. SS-Hauptsturmführer Amon Göth was in charge., a brutal person who would shoot them at random. Emilie Schindler called Göth "the most despicable man I have ever met."

Brünnlitz

Oct 15, 1944

700 men on Schindler's list was sent to the concentration camp at Gross-Rosen, where the men spent about a week before being re-routed to the factory in Brünnlitz

Machinery

Jan 1, 1945

Schindler moved 250 wagon loads of machinery and raw materials. Few shells were produced at the plant. When officials questioned the factory's low output, Schindler bought goods on the black market and resold them.

Death Date

Oct 9, 1974

Died in Hildesheim, West Germany