Oskar Schindler

Oskar Schindler was born on April 28, 1908 in Svitavy, Moravia. Oskar Schindler's parents, Hans Schindler and his wife Franziska Luser, were Roman Catholic, who divorced when Oskar was 27. Oskar was very close to his elder sister, Elfriede. After school he worked as a commercial salesman. On March 6, 1928, Schindler married Emilie Piezl (1907-2001), daughter of Josef and Maria Pelzl. The marriage was childless.

He was a Sudeten German industrialist credited with saving almost 1,200 Jews during the time of the Holocaust, by having them work in his enamelware and ammunitions factories located in somewhere in Poland and Czech Republic. He was the subject of the book entitled Schindler Ark and the Spielberg film Schindler's List.