Informative Essay On Oskar Shindler

Oskar Schindler was one of the many heroes during the Holocaust. He was an average businessman looking for profit who started as a Nazi supporter. Oskar ended up saving Jews during the Holocaust by essentially hiding them in plain site. Oskar Schindler had a busy life and was the reason some Jews survived to live on passed the Holocaust.

Oskar was born on April 28, 1908 in the city of Svitavy. After he attended a trade school and German-language school, Oskar had a variety of jobs. He worked in his father’s farm machinery business, opened a driving school and sold government property. Oskar met and married his wife, Emilie, in 1928 but soon left to serve in the Czechoslovak army. After serving in the army Schindler went back and worked

Oskar’s main focus was on profit, but he ended up rescuing 1,000 Jews from deportation to Nazi Germany's largest killing center, Auschwitz. He operated two factories, but only the factory, Emilia, had Jewish workers employed there. Oskar intervened on the Jew’s behalf to prevent his Jewish workers from being deported. Oskar had to add an armaments manufacturing section to Emalia in order to claim the Jewish workers essential for war effort. He allowed the workers to stay overnight in the factory. Oskar convinced the SS to turn Emilia into a subcamp which allowed 450 more Jews to live in the factory. In order to continue helping the Jews, Oskar had to make Emilia only a armament factory. Oskar created a list of up to 1,200 Jews stating that he needed them to work in the new factory. Emilia was classified as an armament factory, but they only produced one wagon load of live ammunition in eight months. Oskar had to present fake production figures to prove Emilia was a subcamp as an armament factory. His actions lead to 1,000 Jews being spared from the horrors of conventional camp life. Oskar Schindler left on May 9, 1945 once the Soviet troops liberated the nearby camp,