Oskar Schindler: The Holocaust

The Holocaust was a terrible time in history. Over 6.9 million Jews were shot, burned, gassed, and killed in many horrific names by the dictator of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, and the Nazi Party. The concentration camps they were forced into were brutal, as they were beat daily and many executed if they did not die from the poor health conditions of the camp. But there are heroes of the Holocaust- people who found the willpower to survive the genocide, such as Anne Frank and Eliezer Wiesel. But then there are people who risked their own life in order to spare even a few from the massacre. One of these people was Oskar Schindler- a Nazi. Through his own selfless acts and putting himself in danger, he saved many Jews from a horrible death.

Oskar Schindler was born on April 12th, 1908, in the town of Svitavy, a town within the Austro-Hungarian province, Moravia. He was raised as an ethnic German-Catholic by Hans Schindler and Franziska Luser, whom were both German. He was an only child until 1915, where at the age of seven he gained a sister, Elfriede. In 1918, he kept his

His sacrifices, the risks he took, and the story of his humanity and mercy is one that deserves to be told to this day. He chose to listen to his conscious, rather than the power-hungry dictator Hitler. He also proved that in the group of monsters that were the Nazis, at least one person saw that it was wrong and did something about it. Schindler is honored by not only the descendants of those he saved, but also by the descendants of those whom fought the horrors who started the Holocaust, and maybe even by those whose ancestors started the mass homicide. Oskar Schindler is a Holocaust hero because he saved over a thousand Jews, but he especially is one that must not be forgotten, because he was living proof that in even the most despicable, vilest, demonic people in the world, there are a still a few good souls in the mix, willing to put a stop to the