Oskar+Schindler+Bio

 Oskar Schindler   Oskar Schindler was born on April 28, 1908 at Zwittau/Moravia. His middle-class Catholic family belonged to the German-speaking community in the Sudetenland. He went to school where he studied engineering, but was expected to take over his father’s plant later in life. He was a member of the Nazi party like most of the people in his community. He even made a fortune using a rundown Jewish factory. The Gestapo arrested him several times and interrogated him on charges of irregularities and of favoring Jews. He even managed to save a lot of his Jewish workers from death camps. One of his better known acts was he saved 107 Jews being frozen to death in cattle carts. His death in Hildesheim, Germany, in October 1974.