Oskar Schindler Essay

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Oskar Schindler was born on April 28, 1908 in Czechoslovakia. He was married to Emilie on March 8, 1928. In 1939 Schindler joined the Nazi party. He moved to Krakow leaving his wife in Zwittau, he took over an apartment of a Jewish family. He then gained control of a Jewish owned factory named Deulsh Emailwaren Fabrik, which made enameled goods. It was close to the jewish ghetto and most of his workers were Jews because at the time they were the cheapest labor. When He began to see the Jews not just as workers but as mothers, fathers, sons and daughters, he risked everything that he had to save his Jews from death in the camps. Schindler used massive bribery and his connections to succeed in protecting his workers. Oskar asked Amon Goeth ( a SS officer in charge of the Plaszow camp where Oskar’s Jews were being held) that these Jews who continued to work in his factory be placed in their own sub-camp, closer to the plant, "to save time in getting to the job." Once Oskars Jews had their own sub-camp it became less dangerous for him to have food and medicine smuggled into the barracks. At the point when Oskars ambitions were realized, he could have walked away from the war a wealthy man, while his Jews would have died in Plaszow and Auschwitz, Schindler did not walk away. He spent every penny of his money bribing Amon Goeth and the other Nazi officials in order to protect and, save his Jews. Schindler spent all his money that he had made while using Jewish labor. What was not spent bribing Amon Goeth and the other Nazi officials were spent on feeding and protecting his Jews. At his factory, Nazi guards were instructed to stay on their side of the fence and no one was allowed in the factory without permission from Oskar Schindler. In the factory, meals had a calorie count of 2000 versus 900 at camps. When food supplies ran low, Schindler spent great sums of

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