Documents and testimonies regarding Oskar Schindler's rescue efforts on behalf of Jewish forced laborers
In the file:
- Letter from Oskar Schindler to Dr. Ball-Kaduri giving his reasons and the motivation for his conduct during the war (pp. 2-4), 09 September 1956;
- Introduction to the report prepared by Dr. Ball-Kaduri based on the testimonies of Oskar Schindler and Jitzchak Stern (pp. 5-9), December 1956;
- Report prepared by Dr. Ball-Kaduri regarding the testimony of Jitzchak Stern concerning events in Krakow, the Plaszow camp, the Bruennlitz (Brněnec) camp and the rescue of Jews by Oskar...
File Number : 164
Type of Material : Memoirs, List of Forced Laborers, Letter(s), Official Documentation, Testimony, Newspaper Clippings, Speech
Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, English, German, Yiddish
Oskar Schindler, report on his saving 1,200 Jews from 1939-1945 while he was director of factories in Krakow and Burennlitz (Czechoslovakia); Jews in forced labor in the Plaszow camp (in Krakow) received 40 percent of their nutritional needs, and met their remaining needs by purchases on the black market; for each Jew, he had to pay SS-u 5 zlotys to the Polizei-Fuehrer, and contribute to other institutions as well; he paid the bribes to the leading murderers of Plaszow camp - Lagerfuehrer Amon Goeth, SS Oberfuehrer Scherner; Rolf Czurda, SD- Krakow; John Jeo, and others; Schindler had contact with the Joint in...
Various documents pertaining to Oskar Schindler and Jewish workers whom he employed and rescued
- Letters from the Oskar Schindler Survivors' Fund including appeals from Leopold Page, the President of the Fund, to survivors to donate on behalf of the man who rescued them and whose health has deteriorated, and who has been left with no means, dated 1972;
- List of contributions by Holocaust survivors to various memorial sites in Israel and abroad;
- Partial list of Jews from "Schindler's List" including an entry in the handwriting of Rajmund Titsch, an employee at the Julius Madritsch factory in Krakow,...
Letter sent by the Zamrsk Regional Archive in Ulici Nad Orlici, including genealogical notes regarding the Schindler family including Oskar Schindler, 04/07/1994
The notes are based on the birth registration books located in the archive.
Testimony of Marcel Krittenstein, born in Cracow, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Cracow Ghetto, Plaszow labor camp, Oskar Schindler's factory, camps in Germany and in Theresienstadt
Zionist family; life in Zakopane; his father was the chairman of the General Zionists; learning in a Polish school; return to Cracow two months before the outbreak of war; looting; deportation of some of the Jewish residents to the surrounding cities; entry to the ghetto, March 1941; forced labor as an electrician on the airfield; contacts with the Polish Underground through a history teacher; passing of information to...
Testimonies of Jews who were saved by Oskar Schindler, including letters of recommendation, witten in 1945, by seven Holocaust survivors describing Schindler's efforts in saving them; the writers are Jews whom he employed in his factory in the Plaszow-Krakow concentration camp, and in 1942 in the Bruennlitz camp, in the Sudetenland; before being sent to Bruennlitz to work in his factory, the men had been in Gross-Rosen and the women in Auschwitz; the file also includes: a letter from Pope Paul VI granting a certificate of merit to Schindler for saving Jews; eighteen testimonies of survivors telling about his...
Testimony of Izak Stern, regarding his experiences in the Emalia factory under the management of Oskar Schindler
Work in a textile factory.
Witness' first meeting in the factory with Oskar Schindler (later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations), 18 November 1939; warning by Schindler regarding an "Aktion" against the Jews of Krakow that is to take place; witness prepares a balance sheet regarding the production arrangement in the Emalia factory under Schindler's management, at Schindler's request; gives advice to Schindler to rent the factory and not to purchase it; his relations with...
Letters of Oscar Schindler, acknowledgement of Schindler's help to Jews in Plaszow and a list of evacuees to Brunnlitz, 18 April - 05 July 1945
Letters of the German industrialist Oskar Schindler; acknowledgement of former inmates in Plaszow camp of the help Schindler extended in Plaszow camp and Brunnlitz camp; list of names of Jews who were evacuated from Plaszow camp to Brunnlitz, 18 April - 05 July 1945.
Drafting instruments used by Brünnlitz prisoner Moshe Bejski, while working in Oskar Schindler's factory.
Bejski assisted Schindler by forging signatures on documents that enabled him to obtain more food rations for prisoners. Schindler himself gave Bejski the drafting instruments, so that he would have the wherewithal to earn a living after the war.
Testimony of Chana Henka (Ring) Rozanski, born in Cesky-Tesin Czechoslovakia, 1931, regarding her experiences in the Bochnia Ghetto, Plaszow, Auschwitz and Bruennlitz
From a traditional family; attends a Czech school.
Annexation to Poland, 1938; move to Bochnia; German occupation; decrees; move to Krakow, 1940; deportation to the Bochnia Ghetto, 1941; ghetto life including labor in a knitting factory; escape from the Bochnia Ghetto; hidden by a Christian woman; return to the Bochnia Ghetto; liquidation of the Bochnia Ghetto; labor collecting remnants of possessions owned by Jews for the Germans;...