Oskar Schindler

TOPIC: OSKAR SCHINDLER
STUDENT´S NAME: VIVIANA CORIA
SCHOOL: AUXILIAR BILINGÜE ESPAÑOL-INGLÉS
COURSE: 5th COURSE
TEACHER: LÍA BONGIOVANNI
YEAR: 2012

Oskar Schindler |


INDEX:
SUMMARY………………………………………………….1
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK…………………………2
SCHINDLER´S LIFE……………………………………….3
IN POLAND………………………………………………….3
ALL ABOUT HISWORK…………………………………...4
THE LIST……………………………………………………...4
END OF THE WAR…………………………………………...5
AFTER THE WORLD WAR II……………………………….5
PERSONAL OPINION………………………………………...6

SUMMARY:
In this work, I am going to speak about the life of Oskar Schindler who was a German businessman that became an unlikely hero when he saved hundreds of Jews in Poland and Czechoslovakia from death at the hands of the Nazis duringWorld War II (1939–45). By employing them in his factory, Schindler protected them from the wrath of the Nazi Party and preserved generations of Jewish families.

FRASE: “WHO EVER SAVES ONE LIFE…
SAVES THE WORLD ENTIRE”

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK:
SCHINDLER´S LIFE:
Oskar Schindler was born on 28 April 1908 in the industrial city of Zwittau, Moravia, then a Germanprovince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and now part of the Czech Republic. The region where Oskar grew up and attended a German-language school was also known as the Sudetenland. Oskar's father, Hans Schindler, was a factory owner and his mother, Louisa Schindler, was a homemaker. Oskar had one younger sister named Elfriede with whom he had a close relationship, despite a seven-year age difference. As achild, Schindler was popular and had many friends, but he was not an exceptional student. Among his childhood playmates were the two sons of a local rabbi.
During the 1920s Schindler worked for his father selling farm equipment. In 1928, however, the young man's marriage to a woman named Emilie caused problems in the relationship between the two men and Schindler left his father's business towork as a sales manager for a Moravian electric company.
Meanwhile, the political landscape in Europe was undergoing major changes, especially in Germany, where Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) and his Nazi Party began their rise to power. Hitler began stirring up ethnic feelings among the Sudeten Germans, pointing out that their "rightful" ties were with Germany, not Czechoslovakia. By 1935 manySudeten Germans joined the pro-Nazi Sudeten German Party. Schindler joined, too—not out of any love for the Nazis, but because it made business sense to go along with the prevailing wind.
IN POLAND:
On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland, prompting Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany. Within a week, Schindler arrived in Krakow, Poland, eager to find a way to profit from theconflict in one way or another. In mid-October, the city became the new seat (central location) of government for all of Nazi-occupied Poland. Schindler quickly created friendships with key officers in both the Wehrmacht (the German army) and the SS (the special armed Nazi unit), offering them black-market (illegal) goods such as cognac and cigars.
It was around this same time that he met ItzhakStern, a Jewish accountant who would eventually help his relations with the local Jewish business community. Schindler purchased a bankrupt kitchenware factory and opened it in January 1940. Stern was hired on as the bookkeeper and soon developed a close relationship with his employer. At the time, some fifty-six thousand Jews lived in the city, most living in ghettos (poor neighborhoods that weretraditionally reserved for Jews)

Schindler soon adapted his lifestyle to his income. He became a well-respected guest on SS parties, having easy chats with high-ranking SS officers, often for his benefit. On the other hand he treated his Jewish employees very human. 
Realizing the brutal treatment of the Krakow Jews he changed his opinion about Nazis and Jews. From now on Schindler...