Presentación de Oskar Schindler

Presentation of

Oskar Schindler

Made by Román, Álvaro y Daniel

Start

Consequences

How did he saved so many yewish?

His times as a spy

His young days

Why is he famous?

INDEX

The end

Bibliography

His civil disobedience

Final Thoughts

Current

Why is he famous?

He obtained a factory in 1939, with some jewish workers.

He started protecting his jewish workwers for economic reasons, but as time passed he started hiring jewish workers just to protect them. His job wasn`t easy, since he had to bribe german officers, every time with more expensive "gifts" . At the end of the war, he saved 1200 jewish people.

His young days

Birth and studies

He was born on 28th april 1908, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, his father was the owner of an tractor company. When he finished secoundary school he graduated on a tecnic shool, but he was expelled after they found out they falsified their grades. He entered university because he didn`t do the exams. He tried opening various buisnesses, but noone of them were succesfull. on thet time he laso became married, he also trien to enroll in the army. When he left the army, the buisness of his father broke out, he became unemployed for a whole year.

His times as a spy

Czechoslovakia

Oskar afiliated to the nazi part in 1939. In 1936 he afiliated to the Abwehr, the intel service of the nazi germany, he was send to Czechoslovakia.

His mission there was to spy on the train tracks, the troop movement and military facilities y recluting other spies, this was all to prepare for the upcoming nazi invasion. But, he was discovered and he was made prisioner on the 18th july 1938. But, he was freed due to the munich treaty, on that treaty, Czechoslovakia became a part of the germany. This wasn`t the end of his career, because he was send to Ostrava, near the border with poland on the 1st of january 1939, and he started the preparatives of the poland invasion. His mission was also to watch the movements of the troops and trains of the tunnel of Vablunkov, which was conquered at the beggining of the war, giving the nazis a great advantage.

How did he saved so many yewish?

CRACOVIA

Schindler moved to Krakow in 1939, where he wanted to buy a company that had previously belonged to a Jew, but after the Nazi conquest all Jewish-owned property was forcibly taken from him. After that, Schindler signed a contract stating that the company was his in November 1939. In this company he had two Jewish accountants, who were friends of his, and a lot of Jewish labour because they didn't have to be paid as much. In August 1940, the governor said that all the Jews in the city had to leave in the next two weeks, unless they were indispensable in the work of a Catholic. After that, Schindler started to protect his Jewish employees by saying that they were indispensable or by bribing the police. After a few months, there were 1000 Jews working in his company with a canteen, kitchen and clinic.

how did he saved so many yewish?

PLASZOW

In 1941, the Nazis began to evict the Jews from the city, and sent them to a concentration camp in Belzec, but Shindler knew the Nazis' next moves from his contact with the Wehrmacht, so he was able to tell his employees that for their own good, they should sleep in the company and not leave. After the liquidation of the Jews by the Nazis, Shindler changed his mind and decided to save as many Jews as possible. About 2 km away from Schindler's company, he opened a concentration camp under the command of Amon Göth, who wanted all the factories in the area, along with Schindler's, to be moved into his concentration camp. Shindler had to give him a lot of bribes, but in the end he managed not to be transferred and managed to build a sub-concentration camp next to his factory for his employees and employees of other factories, where they would have better accommodation and food.

How did he saved so many yewish?

BRÜNNLITZ

The movement of the Soviet army forced the Nazis to close concentration camps in the east and forced the factories to help arm the war effort. Göth's secretary, Mietek Pemper, told Shindler of the Nazis' decision, so he was forced to say that he manufactured anti-tank grenades. Shindler then told Shindler to move all the Jews in the area to Brünntliz, where they would be safe. Pemper with the information made a list of 1200 Jews to be sent to Brünntliz, 1000 from Shindler's factory and 200 from nearby factories. All the Jews ended up in Brünntliz and were transported by train together with armaments, except for 250 women who ended up in another concentration camp by mistake, but after a few weeks, they arrived in Brünntliz. As his factory did not produce anything, the Nazis had to check up on him, so he had to buy armaments on the black market to give to the Nazis. On May 7, 1945, after the many risks and risks that Oskar and Emilie Shindler had to face, they were all forced to leave their factory.

CONSEQUENCES

CONSEQUENCES

As he was a Nazi, several of his factory workers had to explain to the Americans that he did everything he could to save as many Jews as possible. He went with his wife, some Jewish employees of his factory and black market goods to Budweis, where the Soviets confiscated their means of transport, so that Oskar and Emilie Schindler had to continue without their equipment on foot or by train to the city of Passau, from where they got money to go to Switzerland and from there to southern Germany. In 1949 they emigrated to Argentina, where he wanted to become a chicken and otter breeder. In 1958 the business went bankrupt, so he left his wife and went back to Germany to start another business, but it did not succeed. In 1963 he went bankrupt and a year later he had a heart attack which kept him in hospital for a month. He died in 1974 and was buried in Jerusalem, the capital of the Jewish country. He is the only non-Jewish person buried there. He received many awards and medals for his work to save Jews. He spent a million dollars and saved more than a thousand Jews.

CURRENT

CURRENT

Between the 1950s and 1970s, he was approached to make two films by two different production companies, but neither materialised. In 1980 Thomas Keneally, an Australian writer, wanted him to make a book which came out in 1982 called "Schindler's Lists". In 1993, an American filmmaker made a novel inspired by Thomas Keneally's book. This film received seven awards including Best Picture and the actor playing Oskar Schindler received an Oscar the same year. In 1997, Oskar Schindler's suitcase was discovered in a flat, which contained photos of Jews and documents of the time. These documents were studied in 1999 and donated together with the suitcase to an Israeli museum dealing with the Holocaust. From this suitcase seven articles were made into a book. In 2009, a note was discovered in a library in South Australia that lists the names of the Jews Schindler protected. This note was left by Thomas Keneally.

His civil disobedience

What "crimes" did he commited?

We are talking about crimes from the government perspective, the nazi government in this case, some of his crimes were:

• Bribing german officers and high-rank persons
• Buying weapons on the black market and giving them to the germans saying his factory made them
• Liying to the german government on various ocasions
• Hiding illegal workers

He could have been arrested for those crimes, but he managed to bribe the officers.

Final Thoughts

Did he broke the laws for a greater good?

Altrough, he did broke the laws, he didn`t do it for personal gain, but for a greater good, that being saving hundreds of jews. He was a good person, who had the courage to fight against the very powerfull Nazi regime

bibliography

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Silver, Eric (1992). The Book of the Just: The Silent Heroes Who Saved Jews from Hitler. Nueva York: Grove Press. ISBN 978-0-297-81245-6. Steinhouse, Herbert (Abril de 1994). "The Real Oskar Schindler". Saturday Night (Andela Publishing). Consultado el 4 de abril de 2013. Roberts, Jack L. (1996). The Importance of Oskar Schindler. The Importance Of biography series. San Diego: Lucent. ISBN 1-56006-079-4. Schindler, Emilie; Rosenberg, Erika (1997). Where Light and Shadow Meet. Nueva York; Londres: Norton. ISBN 0-393-04123-9. Thompson, Bruce, ed. (2002). Oskar Schindler. People Who Made History. San Diego: Greenhaven Press. Crowe, David M. (2004). Oskar Schindler: The Untold Account of His Life, Wartime Activities, and the True Story Behind the List. Cambridge, MA: Westview Press. ISBN 978-0-465-00253-5. Evans, Richard J. (2005). The Third Reich in Power. Nueva York: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-303790-3. Keneally, Thomas (2007). Searching for Schindler: A Memoir. Nueva York: Nan A. Talese. ISBN 978-0-385-52617-3. Longerich, Peter (2010). Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews. Oxford; Nueva York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-280436-5. McBride, Joseph (2010). Steven Spielberg: A Biography. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-60473-836-0. And Wikipedia

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