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Oskar Schindler

This category relates to the industrialist Oskar Schindler. During World War II, he was instrumental in saving the lives of over 1200 Jews from the death camps.

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How many Oscars had Steven Spielberg won before Schindler's List?

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None. He did receive the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in the 1987 Academy Awards show.

What bad qualities did Oskar Schindler have?

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Before transformation:

Ruthless

Ignorant

Callous

Uncaring

Unfaithful

Ambitious

Malicious

Con artist

Womanizer

Greedy

Cheater

Self-centered

Complicated

Those are a few

After transformation:

Calculating

Caring

Intelligent

Precise

Rational

Reliable

Compassionate

Honorable

Gambler of his own life

Guilty

Courageous

Merciful

Remorse

Helpful

Giving

Good

Again only a few

What is the relationship between Helen Hursh and Amon Goeth in Schindler's List?

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Oskar schindler and amon goeth had a pretty bad relationship.

in the eyes of Amon Goeth they seem like friends but while Oskar Schindler is getting him drunk and is persuading him into letting him make barracks at his factory Oskar really doesn't like Amon.

he is just using him to save more Jews in his factory

Why will Oskar Schindler be remembered?

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"Oscar Schindler did what no other German or human being for that matter, at that time,was willing to do to protect a people and save a nation from mass genocide and religious and ethnic persecution."

Schindler was a rich German businessman in Nazi Germany in the 1940s, conducting much of his business in Krackow, Poland when it was under Nazi occupation. However, as the World War II went on he discovered how Hitler and the Nazis were treating Jews, by imprisoning them and exterminating them in gas chambers throughout Poland and that part of Europe. To try and help the Jews, he employed hundreds of them (in reality far more than he needed) as slave labour in his factories, making weapons for the Nazis, so that they could not be sent to the extermination camps. Those Nazi officers who suspected that something was not right were bribed by Schindler not to tell the authorities, who would close the factories and send the Jews to their deaths, and presumably kill Schindler. His vast fortune just held out until the end of the war when the hundreds of Jews he saved were finally freed by the allied forces. Although a Nazi, Schindler was pardoned by the allied forces and is now thought of by the Jewish people as a hero - putting his own safety on the line for the sake of the Jews & there families he saved. Apparently, when questioned, his only regret was that he could not save more.

¨ He bought Jewish owned factories.

¨ . He negotiated the salvation of 1300 Jews, using the Germans' own ways of operating,through bribes, extortion, lies, black marketeering...

¨ . He got in touch with remaining wealthy Jews and had them invest in his company exchanging their money for their protecting, by having them work in his factories as skilled or essential labourers. He then paid of Nazis so they would allow the Jews to stay in Krakow.

¨ . He set up a branch of the Plaszow concentration camp for 900 Jewish workers in his factory and made a list of the workers he would need.

¨ He saved most of the workers by moving his factory to Brunnlitz in October 1944.

Oscar Schindler said 'I was a Nazi, and I believed that the Germans were doing wrong ... it didn't mean anything to me that they were Jewish just that they were killing millions of people

There is a book written about Schindler called 'Schindler's Ark' that tells of his work saving the Jews in his factories. There is also a movie (film) made by Steven Spielberg about Oskar Schindler called Schindler's List which is one of the most moving movies ever made. Although gruelling in places, at times I would defy anyone not to shed a tear - especially at the end, when a line of hundreds and hundreds of elderly Jews files past Schindler's grave to pay their respects to a great man - all with their own families now, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, who would not be here now had it not been for Schindler.

What did oskar schindler make in his factory?

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He originally opened it to make money and used the Jews as cheap labor but he grew a bond with the Jews and then kept the factory open to save their life.

Where is Oskar Schindler?

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He was born in Svitavy just inside Moravia in what is now the Czech Republic. During World War 2 he lived in Krakow, Poland. He died in Hildesheim (Lower Saxony, Germany) in 1974 but is buried in Jerusalem.

How many people did Schindler save in the Holocaust?

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Yes there is still many of Jews that was on the list alive

Facts on Oskar Schindler?

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  • Oskar Schindler was born into a wealthy business family on 28 April 1908 in Zwittau, now Svitavy, Bohemia, which was then part of Austria-Hungary, but is now the Czech Republic.
  • Because he was a businessman, he initially sought to profit from the German invasion of Poland in 1939 by buying a factory in Krakow at a low price and employing Jews as cheap labour.
  • Schindler began to hide wealthy Jewish investors, possibly for profit, but later he began shielding his workers without regard to cost. His wife Emilie supported him through this.
  • He witnessed a 1942 raid on the Kraków Ghetto, where soldiers shipped the ghetto inhabitants to the concentration camp at Plaszow, and was appalled by the murder of many Jews who had tried to hide. Because of this, he worked to transfer the Jews to a safer place.
  • Schindler used his skills of persuasive speech and his money to bribe government officials to avoid being investigated. He spent millions to protect and save the Jews.
  • After the war, Schindler emigrated to Argentina, but returned to Germany in 1958, bankrupt.
  • Schindler died in Germany on 9 October 1974, at the age of 66. His cause of death is variously cited as being stroke or liver failure.

Is Herr Schindler related to Oskar Schindler?

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Oskar Schindler is indeed the man that is accredited with saving 1200 members of the Jewish faith from the tyranny of the Nazis in WW2. The film Schindler's list is a Biopic movie based on those events.

Does frank seem to encourage taplow's comments on crocker harris?

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no, he doesn't as he believed that there was a rule that form the results should only be announced by the headmasters on the last day of term.

Why was Oskar Schindler arrested?

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"Schindler was arrested three times on suspicion of black market activities and complicity in embezzlement, as well as breaking the Nuremberg Laws by kissing a Jewish girl."

He never went to trial.

Why didn't others save the Jews like Oskar Schindler did?

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Others did, but no one else has the current profile that Schindler has (thanks to the Hollywood film).

There were others that risked much more than Schindler and others that saved much greater numbers.

Is Schindler's list based on the holocaust?

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The book is way better and they show different things in each by singer

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In the movie, to start, the boys are eight instead of nine. Also, they are the exact same age in the book, in the movie it is unknown if they are the exact same age or not.
There is a dinner scene with Hitler in the book that was excluded in the movie.
Schmuel certainly has more dialog in the book rather than the movie.
Bruno's mom is more sensitive to the Jews in the movie.
You don't know that the cook/doctor (i forget his name) was beaten, it was referred to as terrible things.
Also, hitler is always referred to as "the fury" in the book, but hardly referred to at all in the movie
I am certain there are many more differences than I listed, but these are just a few.
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How did Oskar Schindler risk his life?

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He didn't do what the other Nazis were doing, killing the Jews. Instead he saved them and the other Nazis did not like him for that. After he saved the Jews he was hunted by the Nazis because of his betrayal.

What is schindler's first name?

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He didn't have a nickname. Maybe "Moses" to the Jews.

What is a major accomplishment of oskar shindler?

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He saved over a thousand lives, and is one of the most popular Righteous Among the Nations.

What method did Oskar Schindler use?

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He kept bribing the other NAZIs with a large sum of money to not bother the Jews and to keep their mouth shut about it around Adolf Hitler.

10 scientist contributed in the field of medicine and health?

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Alexander Fleming (Penicilin)

Dr. Raymond Damadian (MRI)

Louis Pasteur (cure to rabies)

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (x-ray)

Walter C. Willett (Vitamin E consumption and the risk of coronary heart disease in men)

Joseph Lister (aseptic)

Edward Jenner (vaccine to small pox)

Paul Ehrlich (chemotheraphy)

Willem Einthoven (electrocardiograph)

Christian Barnard (performed the first successful heart transplant )

Why was Oskar Schindler able to hide Jews right under the noses of the Nazis?

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He didn't exactly "hide" them. In the movie Schindler's List, he starts out wanting to buy an enamelware factory so he can continue his lifestyle of money, wine, and women.

Schindler hires Jews because his account, Stern, tells him, "They're cheaper than Poles." Schindler didn't want to spend a ton of money on workers, but after seeing the ghetto being liquidated (emptied) and the horrible, nauseating treatment Amon Goeth bestows upon the Jews, he begins to find ways to bring as many Jews into his factory as he can.

It's a really great movie, and it really helps you understand the Holocaust from a different point of view. I would suggest it if you're interested.

What is the film Schindler's list about?

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Schindler's List tells a story about a German business owner who tries to hire Jewish people in the hopes of keeping a few out of the concentration camps. Therefore he manages to save lives that had he not stepped in, would have been lost at the hand of German soldiers and doctors.

When did Oskar Schindler join the Nazi party?

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Answer Oskar Schindler/Nazi PartyMy research has shown that Oskar Schindler joined the National Socialist (Nazi) Party in 1939. He applied for membership Feb. 10, 1939 and his membership was granted and he was member number, 6,421,477. He was appox. 31 years of age at the time he joined. He was very charismatic and stood in good stead with many influential Nazi people at that time in Germany. This, plus his obvious wealth, courage, and humanitarian conscience helped him save approx. 1200 Jewish people from death, whom he employed in his enamel-ware factory in Krakow, a short distance from the Plaszow concentration/death camp, where the infamous SS officer, Amon Goeth was commandant. This was portrayed in the Steven Speilberg movie "Schindlers' List" based on the book "Schindlers Ark" by Tom Keneally. (Schindlers original member Nazi party card is still held in the archives of the Berlin Documents Centre (B.D.C.) in Berlin Germany) .Oskar Schinldler has been buried on the Catholic cemetery on Mt.Zion, in Israel. (It also must be known that many historians agree that Schindler joined the Nazi party primarily for personal gain from the status and contacts this afforded him business-wise and maybe not for any reasons of personal belief in anti-semitism or other Nazi idealologies.)