Schindlerjuden

The Schindlerjuden, literally translated as "Schindler's Jews", were roughly 1,200 Jews who were saved by Oskar Schindler during the Holocaust. They survived the years of Nazi regime primarily through the intervention of Schindler who found them protected status as industrial workers at his enamelware factory in Krakow and, after 1944, at an armaments factory in occupied Czechoslovakia. They avoided being sent to death camps and survived the war. Schindler expended his personal fortune as an industrialist to save the Schindlerjuden.

Oskar Schindler (second from the right) poses with a group of Jews he rescued during the Holocaust. The picture was taken in 1946, one year after the war ended

Their story has been depicted in the book Schindler's Ark, by Thomas Keneally, and Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of the novel, Schindler's List. Poldek Pfefferberg, one of the survivors, persuaded Thomas Keneally to write the novel and Steven Spielberg to produce the film.

In 2012, there were estimated to be over 8,500 descendants of Schindler's Jews living in the United States, Europe, and Israel.^[1]

List of Schindlerjuden

This is the list of Schindlerjuden (Schindler's Jews) who were transported to Schindler's factory in Brünnlitz. The original list was prepared by Mietek Pemper, Itzhak Stern and Oskar Schindler^[2][3][4] at the turn of September and October 1944. This list probably no longer exists.

Another list with 1,000 names, compiled by former camp stenographer Mieczyslaw Pemper upon the prisoners' arrival October 21, 1944 at Schindler's Brünnlitz factory, was presented by Pemper to the International Tracing Service in 1958.^[5]

This list is based on two lists of 1,098 prisoners made by camp administration in Brünnlitz on 18 April 1945.^[6] They are preserved in Yad Vashem Memorial. The first list contains 297 female prisoners while the second list contains 801 male prisoners. There are preserved several copies and carbon copies of the list from April 1945, with some in museums while others are in private hands (mostly of families of former prisoners).

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