As Oskar Schindler grew up he worked in several trades up until he joined the Abwehr intelligence service of nazi Germany, where he became a spy in 1936, due to his prior german occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1938 while doing this he collected information about the railway troops and their movement and gave it to the german government. He was then arrested by the Czech government for espionage but was the released by the terms of Munich Agreement in 1938, but Schindler didn't take much notice to this experience as he continued to work of Poland in 1939 until the invasion of Poland which started world war 2.
Due to this in invasion Oskar Schindler moved to Krakow from Svitavy in October 1939. while he was here he took advantage of the German occupation program to “Aryanize” and “Germanize” Jewish-owned and Polish-owned businesses in the so-called “General Government”. he also brought …show more content…
another business “The German Enamelware factory” in November 1939, in this period of time Oskar Schindler operated two factories where he employed jewish workers, “1944, Emalia employed 1,700 workers; at least 1,000 were Jewish forced labourers, whom the Germans had relocated from the Krakow ghetto after its liquidation in March 1943 to the forced labor camp and later concentration camp Krakau-Plaszow.” despite the Emilia working brutal working conditions and conditions in general (concentration camps) Oskar Schindler continued to intervene on their behalf with bribes and person diplomacy. March 1943, Schindler considered to allow the Jewish workers to stay at the factory overnight. As time past Oskar Schindler gave his fellow Nazi offices ever larger bribes and gifts of luxury items obtainable only on the black market to keep his workers safe. all the way throughout world war two Oskar Schindler risked his life over and over agin to protect and potentially save his jewish workshop workers as he desperately used every penny he had to buy better food and conditions for his worker while still paying of his Nazi offices silents.
While Oskar Schindler prepared to leave his workers referring them to his pride, the gave him a letter they had all written to his good deeds he had cased to capture and defend himself. they gave him a special gift a golden ring which was made out of bridgework of one prisoners with inscribed "He who saves one life, it is as if he saved the entire world.” Along with his wife, Oskar Schindler then had the flied west to avoid Russian troops advancing from the east. with in a couple of days the twelve hundred of Schindler juden were liberated by a lone Russian officer who rode up to the factory on horseback. “In 1949 Oskar Schindler moved to Argentina and purchased a farm. By 1957, however, Schindler had gone bankrupt and was relying on the charity of the Jewish organization B'nai B'rith to survive.” due to this in 1958 Oskar Schindler abandoned his wife and returned to West Germany where there the Jewish Distribution Committee and several grateful individuals came through for him with money, and he started a cement business in Frankfurt, Germany, but it failed in 1961. From then on, he lived mostly off funds provided by the Schindler juden as well as a small pension.
A short time after Oskar Schindler’s fifty-fourth birthday in 1962, Oskar Schindler was declared "Righteous Gentile” “and invited to plant a tree on the Avenue of the Righteous leading up to Jerusalem’s”. “a memorial to the Holocaust, the name for the German liquidation of Jews during World War II. Upon his death from heart and liver problems in 1974, he was granted his request to be buried in Israel.”
“More than 1200 Jews Oskar Schindler was all that stood between them and death at the hands of the Nazis.” but a man full of many flaws just like all of the rest of us was the only one to actually stand up and take notice of what is happening a do something about it.
risking he own life to save another, “An ordinary man who even in the worst of circumstances did extraordinary things, matched by no one.” , “Oskar Schindler is a hero to over 6,000 Jews currently living across the United States and Europe. Schindler was an ordinary man with extraordinary power that he used to save 1200 human lives during the Holocaust of World War
II.”