The Secret Hero
The Holocaust killed between five and six million Jews in the span of twelve years from 1933 to the year of 1945, but 1,200 Jews did not die due to a daring hero. It all started when Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany in the year 1933. Then the Jews became excluded from the public in the year of 1935. During World War II, the Germans captured and held Jews in concentration camps. Many of the Jews, tortured and forced to work, did not survive in these camps. In this war, the Germans treated the Jews with aggression and hatred. Finally, after enduring the dangers of the Holocaust for many years, in 1945, the death camps became liberated at the end of the world war. This war took many lives and left others shattered
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When the two got married, Emilie’s father, Josef Pelzl, gave Oskar Schindler a large amount of money and Oskar bought a luxurious car and wasted the rest of the money. Like a child, Oskar would lie to Emilie and then apologize as if he had gotten caught.
Schindler found himself at a New Years party and met a German officer who encouraged him to join the army. The newly engaged man applied for the war as soon as he returned. Oskar, soon accepted into the war on the side of the Germans, quickly joined the war and was stationed in the labor camps. Knowing nothing of the monstrosities of the death camps, Oskar Schindler gleefully went to work.
Astonished when he saw the camps, Oskar Schindler knew his mission. Oskar Schindler worked hard day and night to help the Jews. After the war, he fled the country with his wife and lived with some of the Jews he saved. He soon went bankrupt because of the cost of food he spent during the concentration camps. Oskar died homeless on the streets and “was named a Righteous Gentile by Yad Vashem in 1962 and was interred in the Catholic cemetery on Mount Zion in Jerusalem,” (EBSCO
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Just like the conspirators in the Shakespeare play, Julius Caesar, Oskar Schindler became unsatisfied with the society around him. The conspirators in Julius Caesar came together and solved their problem by stabbing Julius Caesar, a powerful man who came into enormous power by conquering his other tribute, Pompey. After removing Julius Caesar, the conspirators took anyone who showed loyalty to their side and defended their actions. Schindler did not harm anyone, but he did save innocent people from becoming slaughtered, because he knew right from wrong. Surrounded by death, both in Julius Caesar and Oskar Schindler’s life created chaos. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh, the epic hero, became motivated by the death he saw when his friend died in front of him. Gilgamesh went through trials and tribulations to make the world a better place. The journey was not easy for the hero, and he wanted to give up numerous times. Risking his life, Gilgamesh traveled through the most dangerous valleys to ensure his kingdom became better. Oskar Schindler saw the death around him in the death camps. Gilgamesh as well as Oskar Schindler set his mind to something and he did it no matter what stood in his way (EIU 6). Oskar Schindler, just like Gilgamesh did, became motivated and saved as many Jews as possible by putting them in his factory. Just as Gilgamesh
Eliezer later went to other concentration camps in Bakenau and Buna. During these years in the camps he lived through great suffering. Starvation, and survival. He also witnesses thousands of people die and murdered including his own father. Eliezer was finally shipped to Buchenwald. Which would end up being his last stay at any concentration camp. It was now the year 1945 and this ordeal was finally over.
Born on December 31, 1908, Simon Wiesenthal lived in Buczacz, Germany which is now known as the Lvov Oblast section of the Ukraine. The Nazi Hunter came from a small Jewish family who suffered horrifically during the Holocaust (The Simon Wiesenthal Center). Wiesenthal spent a great amount of time trying to survive in the harsh conditions while in internment camps and after escaping the last camp he attended. Wiesenthal spent weeks traveling through the wilderness until he was eventually captured by the Allies, still wondering the entire time if his wife was even alive (The Simon Wiesenthal Center). Of the 3000 prisoners in the camp Wiesenthal escaped from, only 1200 survived and Wiesenthal was one of them (Holocaust Research Project).
In the height of the war, Oskar Schindler recognized that he could use his power and prestige to do more good by saving people’s lives rather than just by making money. As the persecution of the Jews increased, Schindler felt compelled to save lives by hiring the Jewish people to work for him in his factory. If a Jewish person was not considered skilled or useful, they were in danger of being sent off to death camps. Oskar Schindler would hire many Jews (skilled or unskilled) to prevent them from being sent to their death. Not only did he employ them, he also housed...
Oskar Schindler was a German spy in the Nazi Party.He was also a very wealthy businessman who owned a war goods manufacturing factory in the World War II era. Schindler managed to employ 1,200 Jews in his factory in an effort to save them. While Schindler did this, a new concentration camp opened up near him that was run by the notorious Amon Goth. Schindler cultivated a relationship with Goth, so whenever Goth would try to take the Jews to his camp, Schindler would bribe him with black market goods. Later on in the war the camp was forced to shut down due to the advance of the Allies. Schindler got word that all of his Jewish workers would be shipped to Auschwitz with the other Jews. Schindler, upset by this, decided to build a new factory
Approximately six million Jews died during the holocaust, which was two-thirds of the Jewish population at the time of World War Two. This catastrophe is considered to be one of the most deplorable events caused by the human race and will live on for eternity. Often people hear the miraculous stories of survival and escape. However, it is unlikely for one to hear a story of rescue due to the high security surrounding the camps. Many prisoners had no hope of finding refuge and were often destined for the gas chambers.
Managing to save 1,200 Jews. This quote also shows courage because at his own expense he provided his Jewish employees with the life sufficient diet they needed unlike the Nazis did. Secondly, Schindler didn't want to sneak away the jews he only wanted to make a hoax for the Nazis. He wanted the Nazis to believe that he was helping them with the German war effort but really he was trying to save the Jewish community from final liquidation. The narrator describes, “He only wanted to keep the hoax up long enough to survive the war” (2). this quote demonstrates how Schidler stands up to the German command to help out the Jewish community without getting himself in the line at danger but still manages to save 1,200 Jews. He also demonstrates courage because if he got busted for what he is doing he would be imprisoned or even
Oskar Schindler was not the person who you would expect to save a thousand Jews. He was born into a wealthy family. Furthermore, Schindler was very greedy, promiscuous, and often times drunk. In 1938 he joined a German Military Intelligence Service called Abwehr, which had connections to the SS and Gestapo. On the contrary, Schindler was also raised Catholic and was childhood friends with the two sons of a Rabbi. He was compassionate and helped anyone in need. While focusing on making a profit he bought a factory for enamelware. At first it was this motivation to make some money that he hired Jews as a form of cheap labor. Schindler became more compassionate over time and protected his workers,
Oskar, in the beginning of the film, was much like Amon, using the plight of the Jews for his own personal gain. He hires Jewish labor and uses Jewish money to start up a business. As he told his wife, the only thing he had been missing on all his business ventures was war. Though there isn’t any dialogue to give us any direct clues, the scene in which Schindler witnesses the liquidation of the ghetto at Krakow hints at the changes that start to overtake him. He appears to be absorbed by the blunt realization of what the Nazis are really doing. He watches from a hill overlooking the ghetto, as Jews are slaughtered and children are ignorant to what is happening. The horror of it all is too much for his mistress to handle, and she begs him to leave the terrible scene.
Therefore, being a rescuer in the Holocaust he was always on the edge of the line of being safe or dying to save many people. In Spite of this horrific event Schindler did his best to find the good and help the people who were in danger of their own lives. He owned a
Schindler worked in many different camps during the Holocaust. He worked in Auschwitz and he worked very hard to keep his workers alive and the Nazis out (Oscar Schindler). Schindler got authorization to move his plant to Moravia after the SS, Hitler’s police, moved his Emalia Jews to Plaszow. In Plaszow, Schindler helped Jews get out of brutal conditions, but he couldn’t stop it completely. He bribed and used personal diplomacy to save the Jews. The SS didn’t move his Jewish workers after that. Schindler met SS standards to classify Brunnlitz...
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.
Compassion for people is needed in order to find the good in humanity during a horrific event such as the Holocaust. During the Second World War, a man by the name of Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany. Hitler was a man full of hatred and persecuted approximately 11 million people. Many would believe that as a German Nazi, Oskar Schindler was just as ruthless and evil as Hitler himself. On the contrary, his actions during WWII had saved nearly 12 hundred Jews from persecution. Schindler was a fierce industrialist who had all the qualities of what people thought of as a Nazi. However, he used his position to risked everything just to save the Jews who worked in his factory from Auschwitz. Schindler did what was best for humanity when humanity was at its worse. His respect for human life compelled him to do the right thing and save the
During World War II two different people and group of brothers Oskar Schindler, Raoul Wallenberg, and the Bielski brothers became leaders in saving the lives of over 100,000 jews altogether. By giving the them a reason to survive and an opportunity to escape from the bondage brought on by the Nazis. The Bielski Brothers lived in Stankevich, Belarus, were there family was either captured or killed. After the Brothers got out of the village in which their family had been killed they fled to the forest because they new it like the back of their hand and would give them good coverage from the Nazis. In the Forest the brothers found other survivors and decided that it would be easier to live in a group rather than by themselves over the years the camp got much bigger and became more of a village than a group of people. Oskar Schindler Used his many talents such as bribery, grand gestures, and power of presentation to save hundreds of Jews already in concentration camps. He every last penny trying to save the Jews which he called his children he even gave his life protecting them and asked to be
Schindler’s List begins with the early life of Oskar Schindler. The novel describes his early family life in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his adolescence in the newly created state of Czechoslovakia. It tells of his relationship with his father, and how his father left his mother. His mother is also described in great detail. Like many Germans in the south, she was a devout Catholic. She is described as being very troubled that her son would take after her estranged husband with his negligence of Catholicism. Oskar never forgave Hans, his father, for his abandonment of his mother , which is ironic considering that Oskar would do the same with his wife Emilie. In fact Hans and Oskar Schindler’s lives would become so much in parallel that the novel describes their relationship as “that of brothers separated by the accident of paternity.'; Oskar’s relationship with Emilie is also described in detail as is their marriage. The heart of the novel begins in October 1939 when Oskar Schindler comes to the Polish city of Cracow. It has been six weeks since the German’s took the city, and Schindler sees great opportunity as any entrepreneur would. For Schindler, Cracow represents a place of unlimited possibilities because of the current economic disorder and cheap labor. Upon his arrival in Cracow he meets Itzak Stern, a Jewish bookkeeper. Schindler is very impressed with Stern because of his business prowess and his connections in the business community. Soon Schindler and Stern are on t...
However, his personality and childhood gives us an idea of why he might have gone through with the plan. As a child Oskar Schindler grew up with religiously strict parents. The family that lived next door to him was a Jewish Rabbi family. The family’s two sons were his closest friends. There is also one man who was close to Oskar and once asked him why he did it. Oskar replied, 'I was a Nazi, and I believed that the Germans were doing wrong ... when they started killing innocent people - and it didn't mean anything to me that they were Jewish, to me they were just human beings…”. Oskar Schindler had a front row seat to what was happening to the Jewish community. It was clear to him that these people are just the same as anyone else. Schindler took things into his own hands and rescued 1,200 Jews from imminent