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http://www.smh.com.au/news/0110/07/world/world9.html

Sydney, Sunday, October 7,
2001

Schindler’s widow dies after stroke

EMILIE SCHINDLER, widow of Oskar
Schindler, made famous in the book
Schindler’s Ark and the film
Schindler’s List, has died in a
German hospital where she was being treated after a stroke. She was 94.

Argentine writer Erika Rosenberg
said in Buenos Aires that Schindler had died in Strausberg, near Berlin, after having the stroke in July.

Emilie
SchindlerDuring World War II, the Czech-born German
Oskar Schindler and his wife saved 1,200
Jews from death in concentration camps by giving them refuge as workers in
Schindler’s factories.

The story was told by Australian author
Thomas Keneally in the book
Schindler’s Ark.

Steven Spielberg turned it into a film in 1993, focusing on Oskar and giving Emilie a small role, to which she referred in her 1996 memoirs In
Schindler’s Shadow.

However, the woman who married Oskar
Schindler in 1928, after having known him for six weeks, told the story differently.
She said she played a large part in saving the Jewish workers, cooking for them and caring for the sick.

But she said: “Neither my husband nor I were heroes. We were simply what we could be.”

Emilie was born in the German-speaking
Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia in
1907. She met her husband at the age of 20
on her father’s farm in Alt Moletein as
Oskar was selling motors.

In 1942, Emilie followed her husband to
German-occupied Cracow, where he had opened an enamel factory and was making a fortune using cheap Jewish labour.

The couple later used that money to save their workers, mostly through bribing
Nazi officials.

In 1949 the couple moved to Argentina, but Oskar left his wife in 1957 and returned to Germany alone.

He died in 1974.

Related items on this website:

  • Other obituaries: London
    Observer | London
    Sunday Times
  • Schindler
    Index
  • In 1994 Bradley
    Smith noticed that Thomas Keneally’s
    novel schindler’s List was
    surreptitiously retitled as
    non-fiction
  • Schindler,
    the Leiblers, and the Keeping of
    Lists
  • Schindler
    widow threatens to sue Spielberg,
    wants 6 percent of Holocaust movie
    profits
  • Schindler’s daughter says

    discovered
    documents should go to Yad Vashem |
    Mrs
    Schindler flies in | Schindler
    acted for Nazi spy chief Canaris,
    says Czech

  • It’s
    not that List after all: but
    revelations are reported in Schindler’s
    Letters
  • Oskar
    Schindler’s 1938 arrest as a Nazi Spy:
    the proof
  • Oskar
    Schindler’s 1938 arrest as Nazi spy
    (better document facsimile and
    translation)
  • Schindler’s
    List saved for Grateful German Nation:
    Thousands cheer
  • Skinflint
    Spielberg lets Schindler’s

    widow
    rot

  • Toronto
    Star A tale of intrigue, feuds,
    Hollywood tycoons

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