Oskar Schindler

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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1. When was Oskar Schindler born?April 28, 1908
2. Where was Oskar Schindler born?Zwittau, Moravia, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
3. What is Oskar Schindler known for?Saving approximately 1,200 Jewish people from the Holocaust through his industrial enterprises
4. What is the career?German industrialist, member of the Nazi Party, and rescuer during the Holocaust
5. What is the number of lives saved?Approximately 1,200 individuals
6. Who was Oskar Schindler?He was a German businessman who saved more than a thousand Jewish people during the Holocaust. He worked for the Nazi Party at first but later used his factory to protect workers.

Holocaust: The systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators during World War II.
Nazi Party: The National Socialist German Workers' Party, a far-right political party in Germany led by Adolf Hitler, responsible for the Holocaust and World War II.
Abwehr: The intelligence agency of the German Armed Forces (Wehrmacht) from 1935 to 1945.
Concentration Camps: Sites established by Nazi Germany to detain and murder perceived enemies of the state, including Jews, political opponents, and other targeted groups.