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Oskar Schindler
1908-1974
Who Was Oskar Schindler?
Oskar Schindler was born into a German Catholic family in 1908. After attending trade schools, he worked for his father’s farm machinery company.
He worked for German intelligence and later joined the Nazi Party.
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An opportunist businessman with a taste for the finer things in life, he seemed an unlikely candidate to become a wartime hero. During the war, however, he operated a factory that employed more than 1,000 Polish Jews, saving them from concentration camps and extermination.
In 1993, his story was made into the Steven Spielberg movie Schindler’s List.
Quick Facts
FULL NAME: Oskar Schindler
BORN: April 28, 1908
DIED: October 9, 1974
BIRTHPLACE: Svitavy, Sudetenland (modern day Czech Republic)
SPOUSE: Emilie Pelzl (1928-1974)
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Taurus
Early Years
Schindler was born April 28, 1908, in the city of Svitavy [Zwittau], in the Sudetenland, now part of the Czech Republic.
The eldest of two children, Oskar