Oskar Schindler Research Paper

Oskar Schindler: Nazi hero

Introduction

“...With people behaving like pigs, I felt the Jews were being destroyed. I had to help them. There was no choice,” In the words of Oskar Schindler (2008, O’Neil). An ex-Nazi, and a man that believed in saving the lives of people no matter what their religion. Schindler helped The Jewish people in many ways. It started out as just giving them a home, but turned into something more valuable. Not only did Schindler help the Jews, but they helped him. From the 1930’s to Oskar Schindler's death, he saved the lives of many Jewish people in Germany just because he felt obligated to do so after seeing the way they had been treated.

Schindler and his factories First Factory

Oskar Schindler had many responsibilities at his first factory “Emalia”, including saving the lives of many Jewish people. In November 1939, Schindler left Svitavy, A city in the Czech Republic, and traveled to Krakow,

In 1944, Schindler decided he wanted to move his factory to Brunnlitz in the Czech Republic. Since this factory was going to hold all of the 1,200 workers he needed to come up with some sort of list so he could send the Jews to Brunnlitz. When an assistant created the list full of employee’s it became acknowledged as “Schindler’s List” (2016, USHMM). When the Jews were supposed to get transported by train to the factory, someone made a mistake and put 300 women on the wrong train. Instead of going to the Czech Republic the women were heading to Auschwitz (2003, Harran). Auschwitz was the biggest and best-known death camp (2009, History.com Staff). Instead of going to his factory and leaving the 300 female Jews to Auschwitz, Schindler risked his life to save them and return them to his newly opened factory (2003, Harran). Not only does this show that Schindler cared for his employees, but he also was as loyal to them as they were to