-
Oskar was born into a Sudeten German family.
-
Schindler married Emilie Pelzl, moving in with Oskar's parents and having the upstairs rooms.
-
Schindler returned to Moravian Electrotechnic and went bankrupt shortly afterwards. His father's farm machinery business closed, making Schindler unemployed for a year.
-
Oscar was arrested by the Czech police for spying. He claimed he only did it because he needed the money.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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."
-
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
-
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.
-
Died in Hildesheim, West Germany
You are not authorized to access this page.
