Planning
I decided to do an essay on Oskar Shindlers
because I had seen the film about
Schindler’s list and thought it would make a good project for my leaving
cert.
MY AIMS WORE
To get information I
went onto the internet. And these wore 1.www.schindlers
list.com 2.The
life of Oskar Schindler
The book I read on him
was Schindlers list (arh) by Thomas Keneally. This book covers the history of
Oskar Schindler during the war and was made into a movie by Stephan Spilsberg.
I wrote up a plan and i typed up my essay.
Part 3
Review of sources.
Here are my sources. My websites wore
1.
Www.
Schindlers list.com 2.The
life of Oskar Schindler 3.Www.
Jewisshirtuallibrary.org
And the book I used
was Schindlers arh by Thomas Keneally.
THE LIFE OF OSKAR SCHINDLER
In December 1939, occupied Poland
was being torn apart and Oskar Schindler was on
the bad side he did not care for nobody and nothing just in it to win it! He
would be cruel and mean but it didn’t seem right. He had a conscience but it
never showed.
Before the war,
Schindler was born April 28,
1908.astria-Hungary, it’s now
Schindler married a woman at the age of 19 her
name was Emilie Pelzl. Oskar may have been married but he always had other
women in the side for fun. He gambled allot and won a lot but
lost more than what he one. He was a working man who had money. So he wasn’t
afraid to spend it. He new he could afford it.
Never one to miss a chance to make money, he
went to
At first he seemed like everybody else just in
it for money and power, driven by profit and unmoved by the means of his
profiteering. But somewhere along the line it changed he changed. He done what
he set out to do he made his money, but by the end of
the war he had spent everything he made on keeping 1,300 Jewish men and women
alive. “He negotiated the salvation of his 1,300 Jews by operating right at the
heart of the system using all the tools to help him such as—bribery, black
marketeering and lies,” said Thomas Keneally, whose book about this paradoxical
man was the basis of the movie Schindler's List. He started to show his
true good side in Schindler’s List.
Not long after getting his “Emalia”
factory—which produced enamel goods and munitions to supply the German front—when
it started when Schindler brought the Jews to death camp, began in earnest.
Schindler's accountant (who was Jewish) put him in touch with the few Jews with
any money. They invested in his factory, and in return for investing in the
factory they got to work there and perhaps got to keep there lifes . He was
persuaded to hire more Jewish workers, designating their skills as “essential,”
paying off the Nazis so they would allow them to stay in
As the brutality of the holocaust escalated,
Schindler's protection of his Jewish workers became increasingly active. In the
summer of 1942, he witnessed a German raid on the Jewish ghetto.
Watching innocent people being packed onto trains bound for certain death,
something awakened in him. “Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to
see what would happen,” he said later. “I was now resolved to do everything in my
power to defeat the system.” He felt sorry for them, he new they wore
defencesless people.
By the autumn of 1944,
After the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto
and the transfer of many Jews to the Plaszow
concentration camp, Schindler used his influence to set up a branch of the camp
for 900 Jewish workers in his factory compound in Zablocie and made his now famous
list of the workers he would need for its operation. The ones he was going
to save wore the people on his list.
The factory operated in its new location a year,
making bullets for German guns. Conditions were very bad not good, Not only for
the workers but for Schindler as well. But Schindler saved best of his workers
when he changed his factory to Brunnlitz (
When the war ended, Schindler went to
He died in
It was against what Ockars country went by they
didn’t have sympathy for the Jewish people but it wasn’t like that for him he
had a heart and felt terrible so he felt like he had to help them because he
could and the question is not important but its wondering why are the rest
not?? More people should have stepped up thank god for the help Oskar brought.
The movie of Schindlers
List was made in
The movie shows how things turn from terrible to civil
and how Oskar Schindler saved the 1300 Jews. The memory still lives on of
Schindler and the memory of all the Jews who lost there lifes in the death
camps. The movie and book were both great.
By Ciara Carey