Oskar Schindler Research Paper

Oskar Schindler, a unique and unlikely hero during the Holocaust, was able to save the lives of many innocent Jews by risking his own life. Oskar Schindler saved over 1,200 lives over the course of World War II. Through out his life, Oskar had failed multiple times in the business world, but in 1939 he finally found success. Schindler saved the thousands of Jews by getting involved with the German Nazis and risking his life. Oskar Schindler was born on April 28, 1908 in Svitavy, Moravia into a middle class Catholic family. Oskar’s father, Hans Schindler, owned a farm-machinery company and his mother, Louisa Schindler, was a homemaker. He had a younger sister named Elfriede and was very close to her (“Schindler Biography”). Growing up in Zvitavy, Oskar had many friends outside of school, but in school he was not that well of a student. While growing up his closest friends were two Jewish boys. After finishing grammar school, Oskar moved on to study engineering in numerous trade schools in Brno. He was expected to take over the family business
It was much like his life before the war with the failed businesses, overspending, bankruptcy and numerous love affairs. In 1949, Schindler had moved the Argentina to buy a farm. Soon after this he went bankrupt and separated with his wife. Schindler had abandoned her in Argentina when he moved back to Germany with money from a Jewish organization in 1958. Again in 1961 Schindler went bankrupt after his cement business in Frankfurt, Germany failed. He began living off of funds from the Schindlerjuden, Schindler Jews, and a small retirement fund the German government gave him in 1968. On October 9, 1974, Oskar Schindler died of liver and heart problems in Hildesheim, Germany. His body was moved and buried in Israel. At his formal funeral at the Catholic cemetery on Mount Zion in Jerusalem over 500 Schindlerjuden attended (“Schindler