Oskar Schindler Research Paper

Oskar Schindler rescued Jews from being deported to concentration camps by getting them to work for him. He treated them all very well and they were all exempt from Auschwitz. He got arrested on charges of irregularities and favoring Jews. He set up factories in Krakow, home of about 60,000 Jews. The factories primarily had Jewish workers. He got permission to keep his factories if he moved them to Brunnlitz. There were 700 men and 300 women deported to Auschwitz, when Schindler found out he got them released and sent to work for him. Oskar and his wife Emily both helped rescue Jews. Emily stopped a cattle car with 120 Jewish men in it and she convinced the SS officer that the men were needed for work. As a result the men were sent back to work for Oskar and Emily. Together they rescued over 1,000 Jews.

When the war ended he fled with his wife to Argentina, not only did his wife and himself leave Germany he took some of the jews with him to help them start a new life. After the war many jews did not have much left the Nazi’s destroyed most of the business,s and not only that but most jews did not have homes. Most of the jews that were in Oskar’s factory did not have homes to stay or families to go with so he took his wife and some of the jews and fled to Argentina. When arriving he bought a farm and that farm would be home to many of the jews that he took in.

Oskar Schindler was a hero in World War II. He endured many conflicts. The main battle he faced was during World War II. During World War II, Oskar Schindler was a German businessman who saved Jews in Poland and Czechoslovakia from death by employing them in his factory (“Oskar Schindler” 362).

Oskar Schindler was a great man and with many good intentions to save the jews because of his respect for human life. He ultimately risked his life and everything he owned just so save them. Author at ushmm.org said "Schindler

Itzhak Stern; the man who helped save hundreds of Jews, is the man who I honor. He was an accountant, Schindler’s accountant. He was a Jewish man, one with a huge heart who would risk his life for hundred of others. Although he hated Germans and Nazis, he grew an admiration for one. This man was Oskar Schindler. Stern worked in his company, he was the one who controlled the money and the workers of it. While he was working in Schindler’s company, he also was helping all the Jews he could to get the blue card. He also convinced Oskar to accept as many workers as he could to his company. Jewish workers that were at a huge risk to die in any second, as himself.

Schindler was born April 28th, 1908, into a Sudeten German family in Zwittau, Moravia, Austria-Hungary. His father was Johann "Hans" Schindler, who owned a farm machinery business. His mother was Franziska "Fanny" Schindler. He had a sister named, Elfriede, who was born in 1915. After attending primary and secondary school, Schindler enrolled in a technical school but he was expelled in 1924 for forging his report card. He later graduated, but did not take the Abitur exams that he would have needed to go to college. Instead he took classes in Brno in several different trades, including chauffeuring and machinery. He also worked for his dad for three years. Schindler loved motorcycles and bought a

Oskar Schindler saved thousands of Jewish people from the horrible tragedy that was the Holocaust. Some would say, at one point in Schindler 's life, he was an aryan man with no financial problems whatsoever. Schindler was truly a brave man that sacrificed his life for many others. Schindler simply saved others out of the goodness from his heart. “Oskar Schindler (1908-1974) was born on April 28, 1908, in Svitavy (Zwittau), Moravia, at that time a province of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy” (Holocaust Encyclopedia). “Schindler grew up with all the privileges money could buy. He was born Catholic…” (Jewish Virtual Library). “Oscar’s parents Johann Schindler and Francisca nee Luser were both Germans from Silesia, who had settled in Svitavy, where he worked in insurance, and the selling of electrical generators for domestic purposes, and dealing with farm machinery” (Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team). “A sister Elfriede was born in 1915 - Oskar was very close to her, as was his relationship with his mother. After leaving full time education, Schindler worked in the family business in Svitavy, after a short break he commuted to Brno, where he worked for an electrical company called Moravska Elektotechnica (M.E.A.S.), as a representative.” “After attending a series of trade schools in Brno and marrying Emilie Pelzl in 1928, Schindler held a variety of jobs, including working in his father 's farm machinery business in Svitavy, opening a driving school in Sumperk, and

WWII was a major event in this world's history that has left a major hole in our society that is still felt today. While we like to spend a lot of time thinking about the negatives, there were a lot of positives that came along with the war that are not so often recognized. One of these amazing acts during the war came from an ordinary man named Oskar Schindler. Oskar Schindler was an Austrian businessman born in Zwittau, Moravia, on April 28, 1908. During the years leading up to and during the war, Schindler lived in Krakow, Poland.

Oskar Schindler faced many conflicts in his life. The main conflict he faced was overcoming the Nazis and saving over one thousand Jewish People. Schindler, with out a job at the time, joined the Nazi Party and followed on the heels of the SS when the Germans invaded Poland. This is when Schindler took over two previously Jewish owned companies that dealt with the manufacture and sales of enamel kitchenware products and opened up his own enamel shop right outside of Krakow near the Jewish ghetto. There, he employed mostly Jewish workers, which saved them from being deported to labor camps. Though twice the Gestapo arrested him, he got released because of his many connections and with many bribes. Most

Oskar Schindler was not one to pass up an opportunity to make some money. He marched into Poland with the SS and dove head first into the black market. He soon began to make friends with the Gestapo, the secret state police, by softening them up with women, money and alcohol. His newfound connections helped him to acquire a factory, which he ran with the cheapest labor around, Jews. At first, it seemed like he was another German money-driven industrialist but somewhere along the way something changed.

According to Joseph Campbell the definition of a hero is “an ordinary human who does the best of things in the worst of times”. I believe that Oskar Schindler is a hero because he did the best things for many people, in their worst of times. Three great qualities that make up a hero are, loyalty, courage, and compassion. When Oskar Schindler hired Jews to work in his factory he took a huge risk. Throughout the time he employed the Jews he showed all of these amazing qualities as he helped some Jews in Poland survive the Holocaust.

Watching Schindler's list I decided to focus on Oskar Schindler. Throughout the movie Schindler personal emotions change on the war. In the beginning we see that it was a good thing for business that nothing else mattered as long as he made money. When Jews would come up he wouldn't care about them because he knew he could manipulate them and earn more money since they needed him. Schindler didn't really care for the Jews and what would happen to them. We see that Schindler only concern is that his business profits in the war. His concern for going to parties were to make connection that would better his money earning business. Money was his only concern which is why he went out seeking a jew. Since having a jew made it so they could be payed less than a normal person and they would be to scared to not do work. If he got a Jew it would earn him more money than hiring a German accountant. After getting an accountant he goes and seek workers for his factory. The workers are Jews since they don't need to be payed to be working. We later learn that his wife influences him with making business and wanting to succeed. He came from a place where he had nothing and is just beginning to make it. Hes making so much money he doesn't know what to do and he thanks the war for that. With his business doing so well he starts to care about his workers. He cares about them because he needs them to continue making the money.He starts really caring about his accountant Stern he makes sure he

Oskar Schindler was a German, Catholic industrialist. Schindler was born on April 28, 1908, in Svitavy, Moravia, which was a province of Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. He later held Czech citizenship after Moraia was put into the new Czechoslovak Republic in 1918. Even though he held Czech citizenship he was ethnically German. Oskar went through trade schools and met his wife in 1928 to Emilie Pelzl. He Served in the Czechoslovak army in 1938. Through his ranks he became Lance Corporal In the

Diaries of a man who is justly called the Oskar Schindler of China. In December 1937, the Japanese army surmounted and occupied the Chinese city of Nanking. What followed was, as Rabe notes, ""eradication troglodytic beyond all comprehension."" Japanese soldiers ravished, tortured, and murdered indiscriminately, and in all, as many as 300,000 people were butchered. Rabe at this time was Nanking director of Siemens, the German industrial concern. He was withal a member of the Nazi Party and an (ostensibly verdant) venerator of Hitler. Facilely able to leave the city, he opted to stay and by staying was able to blunt some of the effects of the Japanese onslaught. At first he simply opened his abode to Chinese desperate for sanctuary: The number

The movie “Schindler’s List” by Steven Spielberg portrayed many antagonists and protagonists. The movie was based on how the Jews were treated in World War 2 by the Nazi’s. It was about a man named Oskar Schindler. At first, Oskar just wanted to make money by producing pots and pans to sell to the Nazi army. His plan was to first make Nazi connections by bribing them. At a party, Oskar bought people drinks and that led them to like him. By doing this, he could make connections so he could hire Jews to work for him. He wanted to hire Jews because they were cheaper then hiring Polish. This movie contains many heroes and villains, and we will be taking a look at them.