Oskar shindler biography

1908-1974

Who Was Oskar Schindler?

Oskar Schindler was born into a German Catholic family in 1908. After attending trade schools, he worked for his father’s farm machinery company.

He worked for German intelligence and later joined the Nazi Party. An opportunist businessman with a taste for the finer things in life, he seemed an unlikely candidate to become a wartime hero.

Oskar schindler biography

During the war, however, he operated a factory that employed more than 1,000 Polish Jews, saving them from concentration camps and extermination. In 1993, his story was made into the Steven Spielberg movie Schindler’s List.

Quick Facts

FULL NAME: Oskar Schindler
BORN: April 28, 1908
DIED: October 9, 1974
BIRTHPLACE: Svitavy, Sudetenland (modern day Czech Republic)
SPOUSE: Emilie Pelzl (1928-1974)
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Taurus

Early Years

Schindler was born April 28, 1908, in the city of Svitavy [Zwittau], in the Sudetenland, now part of the Czech Republic.

The eldest of two children, Oskar