Oskar Schindler's Social Responsibility

Death and destruction around every corner, it was the genocide of an entire religion. One man risked life and limb to protect that which he felt was right, Oskar Schindler. Schindler put his neck on the line to save the lives of more than 1,000 Jews from imminent death. Schindler and Colonel Sartoris, (Sarty), a character from Barn Burner, both took a moral stance for what they felt was right and it came with a cost. The cost to Schindler for taking a moral stance was his business’s future, his social standing, and his personal wealth. Schindler’s main factory employed majority Jewish workers, this would spawn much trouble later on. Schindler acquired this factory through “the German occupation program to “Aryanize” and “Germanize” Jewish-owned and Polish-owned businesses”(United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2017). As world war two unfolded, Schindler was slowly losing control of his factory’s majority Jewish workforce. To keep the majority Jewish workforce Schindler had to come up
During the war, Schindler was able to grow his factory from 45 employees to over 1,700. Over half of the employees were Jewish and to keep them working at his factory, he had to pay a price. The price Schindler had to pay was his wealth, he had to bribe Nazi officers with exceedingly more extravagant gifts as the war went on. At the end of the war he was “was penniless, having used his fortune to bribe authorities and save his workers”(Biography.com Editors 2016). That Schindler was left with nothing is similar to how Sarty was left with nothing. When Schindler decided to help the Jewish people, he gave up his fortune. This is like how when Sarty decided to tell De Spain his father's plans, he gave up what little fortune his family had. Both Schindler and Sarty were left with nothing more than the clothes on their