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Emilie Schindler (German: [eˈmiːli̯ə ˈʃɪndlɐ] ⓘ; née Pelzl [ˈpɛltsl̩]; 22 October 1907 – 5 October 2001) was a Sudeten German-born woman who, with her husband Oskar Schindler, helped to save the lives of 1,200 Jews during World War II by employing them in his enamelware and munitions factories, providing them immunity from the ...
- Humanitarian work
- 5 October 2001 (aged 93), Strausberg, Germany
- German
Emilie Schindler. This tiny white-haired woman , gentle and courageous, showed us an intriguing glimpse at the shadow world between memory and legend . Her husband Oscar Schindler became a household name as one of the great humanitarians of the century, saving 1,300 Jews from certain death in the Nazi death camps during World War II.
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Emilie stayed in Argentina, where she scraped by on a small pension from Israel and a $650 a month pension from Germany. Her only relative, a niece, lived in Bavaria, Germany. In May, 1994, Emilie Schindler received The Righteous Amongst the Nations Award. In 1995, Argentina decorated her with the Order of May, the highest honor given to ...
Jan 24, 2023 · But Emilie and Oskar Schindler — whose story became popularized by the 1993 film "Schindler's List" — found themselves well-positioned to make a small dent in Hitler's genocide machine and seized the moment. That's not where Emilie's story begins, however. While not as much is known about her as about her famous husband, she was reportedly ...
- Jennifer Shea
Schindler’s ListOskar Schindler was born on April 28, 1908 at Zwittau/Moravia (today in the Czech Republic).His middle-class Catholic family belonged to the German-speaking community in the Sudetenland. The young Schindler, who attended German grammar school and studied engineering, was expected to follow in the footsteps of his father and take charge of the family farm-machinery plant
Oskar Schindler Righteous Among the Nations. The Holocaust • The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.
EMILIE SCHINDLER (1907-2001) Wife of Czech-born German industrialist, Oskar Schindler, who, together with her husband, saved over 1,200 Jewish workers from the Holocaust. Born in a German-speaking village in what is now the Czech Republic, she married Oskar in 1928 and, in 1942, moved to Kraków in Poland.
