The Holocaust: The Secret Hero

To begin, Oskar Schindler was an interesting man, but let me tell you about his life first. According to Oskar Schindler wikipedia Oskar was born on “April 4, 1916 and died October 9, 1979” Oskar was a husband and a father of two children (“Oskar Schindler”). Oskar lived in Krakow, Poland (“Oskar Schindler”). He was a big businessman and owned two warehouses. Later those warehouses became home to about 1200 jews (“Oskar Schindler Legacy”).

In the beginning of the film, Oskar Schindler is a man who is intrigued by anyway to make money. In the past, he has mostly been a failed businessman who is extremely persistent and will stop at nothing to become a profiteer. Schindler however, has an idea, unlike any idea he has ever had in the past. In the beginning of the film, he bribes and communicates with many German officials just as the war is beginning so he can gain access to jews and their free labor. He is an exceptionally greedy man who will abuse his power and social status to make money even if it’s through the blood, sweat, and tears of other individuals. At the beginning of the film, Schindler proclaims, “In every business I tried, I can see now, it wasn't me that failed. Something was missing.” He expresses that the reason for his success in his newly found business can be credited to war. This quote clearly indicates his extreme desire for wealth. However, over time he begins to adjust and modify his behaviors as a result of his friendship with a Jewish man named Itzhak Stern, who also is a manager of his business. As time goes on he begins to protect his workers and save them from concentration camps proclaiming that they are “essential workers” for the war effort. Schindler has now begun to understand that jews

Although he is a Nazi, Oskar Schindler stood up against the Nazis because he was swayed by the brutality of the Nazis on Jews (although it is actually unknown why he really did it) and saved around 1,200 Jews from death from Nazi concentration camps by bribing Nazi officers to free Jews, employing Jews in his factories, and spending all of his money on anything that ensures his Jewish workers are fed and cared properly.

Throughout the Holocaust, 6 million Jewish people were murdered.1 million children were among the victims. Possibly the most profound defender of human rights in modern history, Oskar Schindler has passed all defender criteria in flying colors. Oskar Schindler was born on April 28, 1908, in the Czech Republic. He was raised in Zwittau, Sudetenland, now present day Czech Republic. In his life, he went through many failed businesses, only finding success in the war at his factories. He is credited with saving the lives of 1200 jews from almost certain extermination.

Oskar Schindler saved thousands of Jewish people from the horrible tragedy that was the Holocaust. Some would say, at one point in Schindler 's life, he was an aryan man with no financial problems whatsoever. Schindler was truly a brave man that sacrificed his life for many others. Schindler simply saved others out of the goodness from his heart. “Oskar Schindler (1908-1974) was born on April 28, 1908, in Svitavy (Zwittau), Moravia, at that time a province of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy” (Holocaust Encyclopedia). “Schindler grew up with all the privileges money could buy. He was born Catholic…” (Jewish Virtual Library). “Oscar’s parents Johann Schindler and Francisca nee Luser were both Germans from Silesia, who had settled in Svitavy, where he worked in insurance, and the selling of electrical generators for domestic purposes, and dealing with farm machinery” (Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team). “A sister Elfriede was born in 1915 - Oskar was very close to her, as was his relationship with his mother. After leaving full time education, Schindler worked in the family business in Svitavy, after a short break he commuted to Brno, where he worked for an electrical company called Moravska Elektotechnica (M.E.A.S.), as a representative.” “After attending a series of trade schools in Brno and marrying Emilie Pelzl in 1928, Schindler held a variety of jobs, including working in his father 's farm machinery business in Svitavy, opening a driving school in Sumperk, and

Schindler was a businessman that was set on making a great deal of money. He had many connections and an abundance of friends in the illicit business. “Never one to miss a chance to make money, he marched into Poland on the heels of the SS. He dived headfirst into the black-market and the underworld and soon made friends with the local Gestapo bigwigs, softening them up with women, money and illicit booze. His newfound connections helped him acquire a factory which he ran with the cheapest labor around: Jewish” (Jewish Virtual Library). “At first he seemed like every other usurping German industrialist, driven by profit and unmoved by the means of his profiteering. But somewhere along the line, something changed.” “In February 1939, five months after the German annexation of the Sudetenland, he joined the Nazi Party” (Holocaust Encyclopedia). “In December 1939, as occupied Poland was being torn apart by the savagery of the Holocaust, Schindler took his first faltering steps from

The holocaust began in 1933. Adolf Hitler was a man who wanted great power and to do so he put others below him, making them a “lesser” kind of human than what he was. In 1933 approximately nine million Jews lived in the 21 countries of Europe that later on would be surrounded with SS soldiers. In this tragic event, many people were killed and used for experiments. Not just Jews, but also homosexuals, disabled people, people that were ill and Catholics.

The Holocaust is the mass murder of six million European Jews and other people who opposed the German Nazis during World War II. Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazis Party, saw the Jews as an alien threat to the German society. During the years of the Nazi rule, Jews were rapidly being persecuted. There were 42,500 concentration camps that were used for slave labor and mass murder and other human rights abuses. From 1941 to 1945, Jews were continuously being murdered in the most deadliest genocide in the history of the world. Other victims include the Poles, Slavs, Soviets, Soviet Pous, Romains, communists, homosexuals, Freemasons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, mentally ill, and physically disabled people. From the earliest years of

The war against the Jews began in 1933 and lasted until 1945. The primary victims of the Holocaust were European Jews including other 'undesirables' who were also executed or used for medical experiments. For example, in 1939, roughly 9.5 million Jews lived in Europe which would later be occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II.

“I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system” -Oskar Schindler. With is enrolment in the nazi party, Schindler managed to get a hold on over 1,200 Jews to make them work in his factory making bullet shells, plates, pots, pans, silverware, and so on so he could save them from the outrage of Adolf Hitler. Before he decided to use Jews for “cheap labor”, he was not up to par, he did things such as abusing alcohol and cheating on his wife, but he saved himself from that kind of lifestyle and decided to help people. After World War II people heard about the heroic thing that he did, and they thought of it as setting an example for the world. Oskar Schindler saved over one thousand peoples lives by keeping them in his factory

In 1942, Oskar Schindler saw Jews in a ghetto riot getting packed into the cars("Oskar Schindler.” The). He felt something at that moment and it really awakened him that he really needs to save Jews. As the Holocaust got worse his protection of his workers became very important. Schindler helped a lot through bribes and personal friendships with the government to help the Jews not get threatened everyday and to make sure that the SS doesn’t report them. His business helped him “draw” on Jews that were under the power of the Gestapo. Schindler kept his promises to his “Schindlerjuden” and treated them like his own children. He didn’t even care about money any more. He only cared about his workers. He was ok with losing all of his money and putting his life at risk everyday. ("Oskar Schindler." Jewish)

Why’d he do what he did? For the Jews, for humanity, for proving that you can be pure even in the darkest of times. Why? Oscar Schindler saved the Jewish people in his factory when he saw that they were ruthlessly slaughtering them. He knew the Jews in his factory that was working for him in his enamelware factory making faulty items like cooking pots and ammunition, etc. He would see the Jewish as cheap labor and would buy a good amount to work in his factory around 1,200. Oscar was one of the only people trying to save the Jews and succeeded.

Schindler, was a man of great charm who saw an economic chance during the war years providing materials to army units such as the soup pots as we see in the film. At first, he is portrayed as a man who only favors earnings as being of the uppermost importance to him. He hires Jewish employment just because they are cheaper than the Polish people, but has no essential hatred towards them. Truly, he is a rather rational man and treats workers justly on the factory floor, but that is only because the workers are valuable to him. However, this frustrated me at first because that was all he was after was the money. Not to say that is immoral but slave labor is and if a Jew was not ‘fit’ enough they could not work. However, Schindler actually has

Oskar Schindler was born in a Zwittau, Austria in the year 1908. There his father worked in the industrial field as it was starting to really pick up at the time, and the rest of the town also did the same by joining the industry. Schindler had a peaceful childhood and got a good education before following in his father’s footsteps and becoming an engineer. He marries a women named Emilie, who he never actually loved, and they move in Krakow in the hopes of creating a new business. Once in Poland, Schindler meets many people who help

     By this time the war was almost over, so Schindler tookto the road like many other Nazi officials. At his departure all his workers are present and they give him a paper with all their signatures with a short letter in case he is captures by one of the allied powers. From there he starts to breakdown saying that he could have saved more lives by selling his car and gold nazi pin. Soon he gets into his car and starts to journey to another place. At the very end of the movie it shows all the “Schindler Jews” and they all place a rose on his tomb.