Who Is Oskar Schindler A Hero

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Schindler’s list was published on October 18, 1882. It was a novel, written by Thomas Keneally. The novel had great success, it won award winning prizes. It specifically won the “Bookers Prize”, and “Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction”. The novel describes the holocaust and is a heroic story of Oskar Schindler saving thousands of Jews. There is some twists to the story of Oskar Schindler that Keneally has written in the book, but the author did a very well job at keeping the book interesting by making into a novel.
In the book, Oskar Schindler is described as a very tall and handsome successful business owner. He was rich. He was considered a lady’s man due to all his attributes. Schindler was a hero to many Jews and will forever be someone who they honor. During the holocaust, thousands of Jews were killed. Schindler had risked everything he had and saved 1,200 Jews from being killed. No one is sure why he did it, but he did bribe many of the other Nazi’s with his money and accessories to receive more and more Jews in his factory. …show more content…

Although he was a Nazi member, he did not kill a single soul. He also did not stop any of the Nazi’s for killing either. He was just worried about his money and his factory. All of this changed after he saw many innocent Jews murdered within his eyes. There was a little girl with a yellow raincoat. She was walking through the horror of the Nazi’s killing and the Jews trying to escape. It seemed as it was not bothering her, and she was just strolling across town as if nothing was going on. Later that day, she got killed. Schindler saw her yellow raincoat in a pile and was traumatized. This is where Schindler realized how wrong it was to kill so many innocent

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