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Fort Worth, Texas. It's been said that a hero is someone who is brave just a little bit longer. Oskar Schindler was an unlikely World War II hero, a member of the Nazi Party, a war profiteer, and a husband who strayed and drank to excess. But this man saved 1200 people from from certain death in German Nazi concentration camps. Schindler employed these prisoners in his enamel and ammunition factories where he provided washrooms, dentists, grocery, laundry, cobblers, tailors, and medical care.
At the height of the war, Schindler amassed a fortune. And he spent all of it. save these Jews. What you're about to hear. Of the stories of Schindler's survivors.
Here's Greg Hengler. We think we know what goodness looks like. It looks like Gandhi. skinny and dressed in his handmade loincloth. Or Mother Teresa.
drab and subdued in her nun's habit. Goodness does not drink. womanize and wear Nazi patches? Or does it? Uh In his acclaimed international bestseller Schindler's Ark, Author Thomas Keneally tells us that one of the most common sentiments of the Schindler Jews is still.
I don't know why he did it. Keneally drops a hint in his description of Oscar Schindler's childhood. a strong Catholic household and deeply religious parents. The nearest neighbors were a Jewish rabbi family, and the two sons were Oscar's closest friends for years. Uh To Helen Rosenzweig, a Jewish maid at the Krakow concentration camp who settled in Boca Raton, Florida.
Schindler's close relationship with the Nazi SS camp commandant and his concern for Jews was confusing. Auskashindle came down into the kitchen and he took me to the window. He says, You see the people down the hill, they carried stone, they were digging the hill. He said, Look at them, watch them. You see people in Egypt, you Jewish people, when they were enslaved, and then they were freed from Egypt, This is what's going to happen to you.
You will see. You're going to be free from that hell. Schindler made good on his promise. He also saved Helen's siblings. In a 1964 interview, standing in front of his dingy apartment in West Germany, Oscar Schindler for once commented on what he did.
I felt the Jews were being destroyed. And it didn't mean anything to me that they were Jewish. To me. They were just human beings. I had to help them.
There was no choice. Schindler was so obedient to practice love towards imprisoned Jews. that he eventually paid a price. Here's one of Schindler's Jews who immigrated to the United States after the war. Leon Lason.
On one occasion he had his birthday party and Some of the inmates um bake the cake and uh a little girl, young girl was took it up to the uh office and gave it to him. Hi. gave her a kiss. And this of course was a Major crime Uh during that period of time. Schindler was subsequently arrested.
It was one of three separate arrests. But he was able to talk and bribe his way out of all of them. On the eve of May 8th, 1945, Oskar Schindler had important news that the Jews in his care waited five years to hear. Here again is Leon Lason and Saul Urbach. who settled in New Jersey in 1951.
Schindler asked us all to gather around. He stood up on something high, and he told us that. We were We were free. The war is over. The Germans have surrendered and that He was going to leave.
And these Guards who were standing around behind him were going to leave as well, and he wished as well. Everyone there was either in tears or in laughs or trying to crawl toward Schindler to kiss him and thank him personally, which was impossible to do with a thousand people. It was an emotionally charged gathering. where we just were short of being able to express our feelings, the unbelievable achievement that we have survived the war, and it was Oscar Schindler that brought us to this point. Following World War II, Oskar Schindler was isolated and rejected by his fellow citizens.
He was called a Jew kisser. sworn at on the streets, and stones were thrown at him. Nobody would do business with him. There was even an attempt on his life. It was said that he was their bad conscience.
the conscience of all those who had known something, But did nothing. Uh Two decades after his release, Leon Lason reunited with his rescuer in Los Angeles. He wasn't sure if Schindler would recognize him. But No reminder proved necessary. I reached out my hand and I started to introduce myself because I realized, you know, I was uh A grown man, and last time he saw me, I was not yet 15, you know.
He interrupted me, he says, I know who you are. your little mace. Oskar Schindler took on perhaps one of the toughest forces of the 20th century and saved over 1,200 Jews during a time where over 6 million were being exterminated. If you picked up a handful of sand, it would have over a thousand grains. Over a thousand souls lived.
Because of one Oscar Schindler. On October 9th, 1974, Oscar Schindler died. Upon his request, They buried him in Israel. five hundred of his survivors. We're there.
And we love doing the show just for stories like these. The story of Schindler's Survivors Here on our American stories. Yeah. Lee Habib here. As we approach our nation's 250th anniversary, I'd like to remind you that all the history stories you hear on this show are brought to you by the great folks at Hillsdale College.
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