Schindler, Emilie (1909–2001)
Schindler, Emilie (1909–2001)
Czech Holocaust rescuer. Born Emilie Pelze in 1909 (some sources cite 1907) in Alt-Molstein, Czechoslovakia; died Oct 6 2001, in Strausberg, Germany; dau. of a wealthy farmer; educated in an Austrian convent school; m. Oskar Schindler (industrialist); no children.
Wife of Oskar Schindler who helped him protect Jewish workers in Zablocie, Poland, from the Nazi concentration camps; played an active role in the saving of the Jews (1942–45), hunting down medicine, vitamins and food on the black market to stock the factory's clinic and to increase the Jews' meager rations; immigrated to Argentina (1949).
See also autobiography Where Light and Shadow Meet (1997); and Women in World History.
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