Oskar Schindler's Accomplishments

“He who saves a single soul, saves the world entire”-Jewish inscription on Schindler’s ring given to him by the Jews at Brunnlitz(Webb). When the war ended, Oskar Schindler, fear full of being killed, planned to flee with his wife and leave the factory that housed all the Jews he rescued. The Jews found out about this and decided to give him a gift; the gift was a gold ring with that inscription. One Jew volunteered to have his gold tooth pulled out and made into the ring. One may ask why; especially when considering that Jews went through so many things in the Holocaust. This is because Schindler’s Jews were the best treated of all the Jews. Schindler's childhood was as good as he could have it. In school, Schindler was a popular child with

Oskar Schindler was born on April 28, 1908 in the industrial city of Zwittau, Moravia, then a German province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire(Okar). Oskar was born to Hans and Louisa Schindler(Oskar). Hans was a factory owner and a farm manufacture, and Louisa was a homemaker(Oskar). Oskar was the oldest of 2 and had a close relationship with his younger sister, Elfriede Schindler, despite a 7 year age difference(Oskar). He attended a German-language school that was also known as the Sudetenland(Oskar). Here at school, Schindler was popular and had many friends, but he was not an exceptional student(Oskar). As a child, Schindler was friends with two sons of a local rabbi(Oskar). During the 1920s Schindler worked for his father selling farm equipment(Oskar). However, when Schindler would marry a woman by the name Emilie, problems in the relationship between the two men would cause Schindler to his father's business and work as a sales manager for a Moravian electric company(Oskar). It was around this time that Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party began their rise to power(Oskar). Hitler began stirring up ethnic feelings among the Sudeten Germans and pointed out that their "rightful" ties were with Germany, not Czechoslovakia(Oskar). So, in 1935 many Sudeten Germans joined the pro-Nazi Sudeten German Party(Oskar). Schindler was one of the men that

After the Germans invaded and occupied Poland, Schindler moved into Krakow, where he set up 3 factories. One of those factories was named Emalia(Oskar). Here is were Schindler employed the majority of his workers Jewish, because they were “a good source of cheap, reliable labor” (according to Itzhak Stern, Schindler’s Jewish friend and partner)(Oskar). Emalia was the only factory that Schindler employed Jews, especially Jewish workers from the Krakow ghetto(Oskar). In 1944, Emalia employed 1,700 workers with 1,000 of those workers were Jewish(Holocaust). In June of 1942, the Nazis began to relocate the Krakow Jews to labor camps(Holocaust). Some of Schindler’s workers and office manager were among the first to report to the train station; but when Schindler found out, he ran to the train station(Oskar). By dropping threats, along with some Nazi friends, Schindler got his Jews back and brought them back to the