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Mimi Reinhardt, Drew Up Schindler's Lists of 1300 Jewish Workers Saved During Holocaust, Dies At 107
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- Mimi Reinhardt, secretary for Oskar Schindler, in 2008.
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- 'Woman who drew up Schindlers lists during Holocaust dies at 107,' The Guardian, April 8, 2022.
- Mimi Reinhardt was in charge of compiling names of Jews to work in German industrialists factory. -
The woman who drew up lists of people for the German industrialist Oskar Schindler that helped save hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust has died aged 107. Mimi Reinhardt, who was employed as Schindlers secretary, was in charge of drawing up the lists of Jewish workers from the ghetto of the Polish city of Kraków who were recruited to work at his factory, saving them from deportation to Nazi death camps.
My grandmother, so dear and so unique, passed away at the age of 107. Rest in peace, Reinhardts granddaughter Nina wrote in a message to relatives. Austrian-born Reinhardt, who was also Jewish, was recruited by Schindler himself and worked for him until 1945. After the second world war, she moved to New York before deciding to move to Israel in 2007 to join her only son, Sasha Weitman, who was then a professor of sociology at Tel Aviv University. I feel at home, she told reporters when she landed in the country.
Schindler, who died in 1974, was named by Israels Yad Vashem Holocaust museum as a member of the Righteous Among the Nations, an honour for non-Jews who tried to save Jews from Nazi extermination. The lists that Reinhardt compiled for him helped to save about 1,300 people at considerable risk to his own life.
His initiative was recounted in the bestselling 1982 novel Schindlers Ark and the award-winning film adaptation by Steven Spielberg, Schindlers List. Reinhardt, who spent her last years at a nursing home north of Tel Aviv, had said she once met Spielberg but found it hard to watch the movie. The Israeli photographer Gideon Markowicz, who met Reinhardt as part of a project dedicated to Holocaust survivors, described her as an active woman. She took part in the activities of the nursing home and was a bridge champion. She surfed the net and monitored the stock exchange, he said. ~
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/08/mimi-reinhardt-woman-who-drew-up-schindlers-lists-during-holocaust-dies-at-107
- Oskar Schindler, (28 April 1908 9 Oct. 1974) was a German industrialist and a member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. He is the subject of the 1982 novel Schindler's Ark and its 1993 film adaptation, Schindler's List, which reflected his life as an opportunist initially motivated by profit, who came to show extraordinary initiative, tenacity, courage, and dedication to save the lives of his Jewish employees...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Schindler
- Schindler's factory in Krakow, 2011.
- Schindler's grave in Jerusalem. The Hebrew inscription reads: "Righteous Among the Nations"; the German inscription reads: "The Unforgettable Lifesaver of 1200 Persecuted Jews".
- Schindler's List (1993) Official Trailer - Liam Neeson, Steven Spielberg Movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler%27s_List
- The liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto in March 1943 is the subject of a 15-minute segment of the film.
- Schindler's List (5/9) Movie CLIP - A Small Pile of Hinges (1993) HD
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Mimi Reinhardt, Drew Up Schindler's Lists of 1300 Jewish Workers Saved During Holocaust, Dies At 107 (Original Post)
appalachiablue
Apr 2022
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Paladin
(28,261 posts)1. God bless her for her good works. (nt)
appalachiablue
(41,132 posts)2. A remarkable and blessed woman for sure.