Oskar+Schindler+Biography

Oskar Schindler Oskar Schindler was born on April 28, 1908 in Zwittau, Moravia. He died on October 9, 1974 in Frankfurt, Germany. He was a German Businessman. During the 1920s Schindler worked for his father selling farm equipment. But when he got married at his young age in 1928 at the age of 20 to a woman named Emilie, problems arose with the relationship of him and his father. Schindler left his father’s business to work as a sales manager for a Moravian electric company. In early 1943 the Nazis ordered the final “liquidation” of the Krakow ghetto. Schindler proposed establishing a labor mini-camp within his factory that would continue to employ his own Jewish workers. 1944, Schindler makes bribes to begin the process of moving his factory to the town of Brunnlitz, Czechoslovakia.