Oskar Schindler Research Paper

Who was Oskar Schindler? What did he do,and how did he do it? History classes often leave untold the story of this incredible man, credited with saving the lives of over 1,000 Jews from almost certain destruction. However, there’s so much more to the story than that. Bravery mixed with pounds of thought and consideration, mixed with Schindler’s family background, made the task ultimately doable. Oskar Schindler was all a businessman, a rescuer of the Jews, and a driven personality, which made a unique figure in Holocaust history. Oskar, although he went on to do far more, was born into a life of a simple businessman. Oskar Schindler was born on April 28th, 1908, in Zwittau, Austria Hungary (now the Czech Republic). Schindler’s father owned

Oskar often used his wealth to sell contraband to SS officials, most notably Amon Goeth, bribing them to turn the other way and allow him to keep running his factory, as observed by one of Schindler’s Jews,”I saw him, and I saw his convertible full of cigarettes, whiskey, and chocolate-unconcealed bribes for Amon Goeth.”(Brecher 180) Schindler actually was broke and bankrupt at the end of the war, for he had used all the money keeping the Jews alive, and paying the SS. The Jews in Emilia were untrained, and Nazi leaders would likely take them out of the factory or even shoot them on sight if they saw the Jews fumbling at their jobs. Considering this, Schindler would get the officials drunk before bringing them to his factory for inspection, so they wouldn’t notice the incompetent workers there. Once, Amon Goeth came to his factory to look around, and as told by Elinor J. Brecher and Thomas Keneally,”Schindler was afraid about himself, so he gave Amon some money and said,’Get out of here.’” (224) Once, a Jewish worker fell asleep underneath the table while Goeth was there, and despite Amon telling Oskar to shoot the boy, Schindler simply woke them and slapped them on both sides of the face, wanting to do no further damage. Oskar Schindler was the main barrier that kept the Jewish workers safe from the gaze of Nazi