Sean Gaber
4-26-15
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The Life of Oskar Schindler
Despite the sadness and human loss that the world suffered during World War II and the Holocaust, heroes emerged. One unlikely hero was a man who did not start off knowing or wanting to be a hero. He actually started out the war as a businessman looking to make some easy money. Oskar Schindler started out in a small family with a drinking and womanizing father. Not swaying far from his footsteps, Schindler struggled in his marriage. He was thought of as a womanizer as well. Also similar to his father, he worked as a businessman. From those beginnings one would not think that he would turn out to be not only a hero but also a man who has left a legacy for generations.
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According to the book, Oskar Schindler, in the fall of 1927 Oscar met his future wife, Emilie Pelzl (4). They were married in 1928 (4). Oskar Schindler was not faithful to his wife and was considered a womanizer (4). Although quite similar to his own father, Schindler’s wife had little respect for her father-in-law (4). Schindler even began his career working for his father as a businessman. In fact it was on a business trip with his father that he met Emilie Pelzl (4). He visited Emilie’s fathers farm on one of the business trips with his father (5). Not long after meeting Emilie, Schindler quit working with his father and started at Moravian electric company (7). One of Schindler’s passions was motorcycle racing. He entered his first race in 1928 (6). However, Oskar had to give up racing because he couldn’t afford it (7). Schindler was arrested twice for public drunkenness, disorderly conduct, and assault (8). This shows that Schindler followed in his father’s footsteps as a drunk as well. Another example of Schindler following after his father was his affair with Aurelie Schlegel. He had two children with her out of wedlock (9). Schindler later joined the Czech army for 19 months but reported that he enjoyed the sports over being a soldier (7). Schindler was approached to work for Abwehr in 1935(16). Abwehr was …show more content…
Directly after the war, Schindler was striped of his nationality, which he took great pride in. Trying desperately to find a new place to call home, he applied for entry to the United States. However, according to the article, “Aftermath”, the United States refused him because he had been a member of the Nazi party. He ended up in Buenos Aires in Argentina along with his wife, mistress and other Jews that he recused. He tried and failed as a film producer. He needed support from the Jewish Organization Joint yet still became bankrupt in 1957. At that point he traveled alone to Europe. Due to his indictment of German war criminals, Schindler was hated by many. He had stones thrown at him in the street, was called names, and was an easy target for fights. In October of 1974 he died at age 66 from liver failure. His final request was to be buried in Jerusalem. Schindler had a series of unfortunate events after the
Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal was the “Nazi Hunter” after the Holocaust. He was in five different concentration camps, because he escaped many of them. The first camp he escaped was Ostbahn in October, 1943 then a year later he was recaptured June and was taken to Janowska. Before any of this Simon was an architectural engineer.
There is a very important person named Elie Wiesel. Elie Wiesel was a very important person that was in the Holocaust. He has wrote a book called “Night” describing his time during the Holocaust in (1941-1945). Throughout the Holocaust a lot of his life has changed. Elie Wiesel has a normal life before he went into the Holocaust.
During World War II, he, with his family and other Jews from the area, were deported to the German concentration and extermination camps, where his parents and little sister perished. Wiesel
Wiesel survived, and later wrote the memoir “Night.” He also penned many books and became an activist, orator, and teacher. Speaking out against persecution and injustice across the globe. Wiesel, unfortunately died on July 2nd, 2016, at the age of 87. In 1940, Hungary annexed Sighet and the Wiesels were among the Jewish families forced to live in the ghettos.
(Biography.com Editors). He was later sent to Buchenwald with his father, who died before the camp could be liberated in 1945. (Elie Weisel Foundation). After the horrific events of the Holocaust, Elie decided to study in Paris and become a journalist. (Elie Weisel Foundation).
His family was highly respected in the Jewish community. However, when Wiesel turned fifteen, his family was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. 2. Wiesel lived in Romania around 1941, where he was the only son of a very religious Jewish family. During this time period, the German defeated the Hungarian government, and the Jewish were forced to wear yellow stars.
Simon Wiesenthal born on December 31, 1908, in Austria-Hungary, was a survivor of numerous Nazi concentration camps. Simon's experiences allow us to gain a deeper understanding of how the Holocaust has impacted his life. His experience profoundly impacted his mental & emotional health, the loss in his life and the influence it had on him to become a Nazi hunter. On July 6, 1941, Wiesenthal was arrested and taken to Brigidki Prison and managed to escape. After the escape he was forced to move to the ghettos and was eventually taken to the Janowska concentration camp.
At Auschwitz Elie and his father were beaten, starved, overworked, and lacked proper clothes. As a result, Elie’s father died from the exhaustion from living and working in the concentration camps. After the war, Elie Weisel moved to France to study at the University of Paris. After Elie Weisel graduated from the university, he became a journalist for a newspaper. For the next ten years after the war, he took a vow of silence for speaking of his experiences in the Holocaust.
while him and his father were forced to work under horrible conditions. His father died from the beating of a German soldier. The Nazi and the Germans would separate all men by how they would see them and how they would work. They would kill the ones who could not do it anymore were too tired or were very sick. While for the baby's they would kill them.
He wrote a book called Night. He lived in Sighetu Marmației. Although the Holocaust was a rough time in our history, we still can learn about people's bravery like Elie Wiesel. He studied literature.
Wiesel and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz when he was 15 years old. His mother and younger sister perished there. His two older sisters survived. Wiesel and his father were later transported to Buchenwald, where his father died (“Elie Wiesel, “People pg. 1). Wiesel went on to study at La Sorbonne in France from 1948-1951.
Schindler 's Transformation Oskar Schindler, a greedy nazi who’d people not expect to ever do anything good had an amazing transformation in his life. He is smart and knows how to get his way. But when most people think rich people are greedy his transformation proves otherwise. Schindler changed in many ways throughout his story. He started out tricking people to make money but ended up saving many Jews and his actions touched the hearts of many people.
Schindler risks his life and gives up fortune to save hundreds, while Goth sends thousands to their death and even casually snipes Jewish prisoners one morning for sport. These events all display just how easily life can be saved, traded, or taken away, and illustrate the value of remembering how the Holocaust happened. The film encompasses the idea that life only has as much value as those in control deem it to be. Through this focus on the fragility of life, the film acts as a reminder of what happens when good people stand idle in the wake
Schindler is exceptionally selfish when he starts his business in Krakow. He is very dependent on Itzhak Stern’s accountant work for the business. Stern is accidently put on a train to Auschwitz and Schindler goes to save him. Schindler is so selfish that he says to Stern when he saves him, “Where would I be”, meaning that Schindler would have been nothing without Stern’s help. When saying that, Schindler goes without thinking about how Stern’s life
He adopted the role father in his family and four years later his mother also passed away which had a deep impact on him. He moved to Vienna to pursue arts in Vienna academy of arts but failed to clear the entrance exam twice. At that time he was poor and had a