Oskar Schindler
Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist who saved over a thousand Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories, protecting them from deportation to concentration camps.
Initially a war profiteer and Nazi Party member, he spent his fortune bribing officials to keep his workers alive.
His story became widely known through the 1993 film *Schindler's List*.
The phrase Schindler's list now evokes lifesaving intervention against impossible odds.
Historic Polish metropolis
- ghettoSegregated urban quarter
- JewsFollowers of Judaism
- rescueSave from harm
- enamelwareMetal coated with glassy finish
deportation · Auschwitz · occupation · Nazis · survival · protection · subterfuge · bribery
Sequence of recorded items
- rescueSave from harm
- protectionGuarding against harm
- survivalRemaining alive against odds
- compassionConcern for others' distress
humanity · deception · bribery · subterfuge · lifesaver · benefactor · guardian · humanitarian
Industrial production facility
- enamelwareMetal coated with glassy finish
- businessmanCommercial enterprise operator
- manufacturerOne who produces goods
- enterpriseCommercial undertaking or initiative
production · workforce · labor · director · profiteer · munitions · armaments · exploitation
- filmMovie or coating
- memoirWritten personal recollection
- documentaryFactual film about reality
- JerusalemTriply sacred ancient capital
Liam Neeson · grave · Mount Zion · testimony · survivors · remembrance · biography · recognition
Krakow
Historic Polish metropolis
enamelware · deportation · Auschwitz · occupation · Nazis · survival · protection · subterfuge · bribery · black market
list
Sequence of recorded items
- rescueSave from harm
- protectionGuarding against harm
- survivalRemaining alive against odds
compassion · humanity · deception · bribery · subterfuge · lifesaver · benefactor · guardian · humanitarian · altruism
factory
Industrial production facility
- enamelwareMetal coated with glassy finish
- businessmanCommercial enterprise operator
- manufacturerOne who produces goods
enterprise · production · workforce · labor · director · profiteer · munitions · armaments · exploitation · wartime industry
Spielberg
- filmMovie or coating
- memoirWritten personal recollection
- documentaryFactual film about reality
Liam Neeson · Jerusalem · grave · Mount Zion · testimony · survivors · remembrance · biography · recognition · honored
- HumanitariansMother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr.
- HolocaustHolocaust, Auschwitz, concentration camps, Holocaust survivors, gas chambers
- WWII Resisters
- Holocaust FiguresAnne Frank, Elie Wiesel, Otto Frank, Adolf Eichmann
- LiberatorsSimon Bolivar, Bolivar, George Washington, Washington, Nelson Mandela
- Czech IconsMilan Kundera, Martina Navratilova, Dvorak, Good King Wenceslas
Oskar SchindlerNazi collaborators
People who assisted fascist occupiers
collaborators · informants · denouncers · collaborationist · betrayers