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Oskar Schindler
1908 – 1974
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryOskar Schindler was a German industrialist and humanitarian who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in German-occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. He is the subject of the 1982 novel Schindler's Ark and its 1993 film adaptation, Schindler's List.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
April 28, 1908
Svitavy
Date of death
October 9, 1974
Hildesheim
Citizenship
Nazi Germany · West Germany
Occupations & fields
entrepreneurindustrialistsalespersonbusinesspersonresistance fighterfactory owner
Awards & honours
Righteous Among the NationsOrder of St. SylvesterOfficer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of GermanyJan Karski Courage to Care AwardOrder of St. Gregory the Great
- Field and occupation
- nemecký továrnik
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