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Oskar Schindler

By CassidyBurns
  • Oskars Birth

    Oskars Birth

    Oskar Schindler, was born on April 28, 1908 in Svitavy (Zwittau), Moravia, at that time a province of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.
  • Holocaust Memorial Council

    Holocaust Memorial Council

    In 1993, the United States Holocaust Memorial Council greatly presented the Museum's Medal of Remembrance to Schindler.
  • Service

    Service

    Oskar served in the Czechoslovak army in 1938.
  • Member of Nazi Party

    Member of Nazi Party

    Five months after the German annexation of the Sudetenland happened, Oskar joined the Nazi Party.

  • Thoughtful

    During the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto, Schindler had his Jewish workers stay at the factory overnight.

  • SS

    After the SS re-designated Plaszow as a concentration camp, Schindler persuaded the SS to convert Emalia into a subcamp of Plaszow.
  • Soviet troops

    Soviet troops

    The day that Soviet troops liberated the camp.
  • Time changing

    Time changing

    Divorced his wife Emilie, and returned alone to Germany.
  • "Righteous Among the Nations"

    "Righteous Among the Nations"

    Yad Vashem awarded Schindler the title "Righteous Among the Nations" in recognition of his help to save Jews during the Holocaust. Emilie his wife was similarly honored in 1993.
  • Death

    Death

    Schindler died in Germany, in October 1974.