An Eichman,n, Aide tvho Risked Life to Save Jews
has just been told in the influen- courtyard of his factory. There,
tial West German newspaper, the workers lived with their
Die Welt, of Hamburg. Here is wives, their children, their par-
ents.
a reprint of that article:
"Once, Schindler was able to
"He calls himself a God-fearing
Christian who obeys the Ten divert several railway cars in
Commandments and tries to act which Jews were to be taken to
according to the requirement a death camp. When the cars
`love thy neighbor as thyself.' He were opened, they contained 16
believes that nothing that he corpses, and the persons still
has ever done has made him bet- alive looked like skeletons. With
ter than his fellow-men. He says his wife, Schindler set up a hos-
that he merely fulfilled his duty pital in the factory • courtyard,
and managed to get hold of three
as a Christian.
"For more than a thousand Jewish doctors who nursed the
persons, however, he is almost a undernourished back to health.
"Around this time, Schindler
saint, while he himself considers
it to be a matter of course that began to equip his workers with
he disobeyed the extermination weapons. He managed to get de-
orders of Eichmann. Those thou- cent clothes for them by barter-
sand people ought to know, for ing jewels for textiles and finally
they are Jews. And he saved even setting up a tailor shop.
"Thus they awaited the end of
their lives.
"His name is Oscar Schindler. the Nazi era. As it approached,
The then 35-year-old Catholic was Schindler took his Jews to the
a successful businessman from American zone of occupation, to
the Sudetenland. As a counter- make absolutely sure that he was
espionage agent of the Wehr- fulfilling his duty to his fellow-
macht be was sent not to the men to the very last moment.
front but to occupied Poland in
"After the war, having lost
order to `Aryanize' Jewish busi- all his property in the Sudeten-
ness undertakings.
land, Schindler settled in Frank-
"In contrast to others who furt-on-the-Main. In his poverty,
were given jobs like this, }err Jewish organizations gave what
Schindler did not rob the Jews help they could. Everything he
of their property. He took over ! undertook to earn a living re-
a Cracow factory, enlarged it mained without success, however.
with his own money, and pro- Then 'his' Jews went into opera-
ceeded to manufacture enamel- I tion for him. Half of them are
ware.
living in Israel, the rest are
"At this point his unobtrusive scattered throughout the world,
struggle with the Gestapo began: so that they are a kind of world-
When the order was given that , wide organization. From the Fed-
all Jewish workers must be dis- I eral Government, Schindler re-
missed, Schindler enlarged his I cently got one-third of the 150,-
factory again in order to be able 000 Deutschemarks ($37,500)
to employ more Jews. In 1940, that is coming to him as restitu-
he had 150 Jews on his payroll; tion for what he lost during the
in 1943, 900; and by the end Nazi period.
of the war, more than 1,100.
"Among the 'Schindler Jews' in
"For a certain length of time, Israel are judges, lawyers, doc-
it was possible for these Jews tors and prominent businessmen.
to move unhindered between the They sent him his ticket for
factory and the ghetto. But the the trip to Israel and invited him
time came when Eichmann's to stay with them as long as he
myrmidons began to arrest wishes."
Schindler's men as they walked
to and fro—and Schindler went Israel Offers 600
into action. Toward the end of
1942, when Himmler had or- `Higher Level' Jobs
dered the 'final solution for the
Jewish problem' and ghettos to U.S. Workers
were being liquidated and death
NEW YORK, (JTA) — There
ca m p s established, Schindler is a need in Israel for hundreds
built a camp of his own—in the of technically trained and quali-
fied American men and women
who are seeking the experience
of employment in Israeli in-
dustry, it was announced by the
Committee on Manpower Oppor-
tunities in Israel (COMOI), or-
ganized as a central job-finding
source for Americans who want
to go to Israel.
According to Mrs. Lucy Man-
off, director of the organization,
located at 515 Park, Israel seeks
technical and management per-
sonnel in existing and newly
established industries and busi-
nesses. It also needs administra-
tive and specialized professional
people in social services and re-
search fields there.
"COMOL now offers approxi-
mately 600 higher level job op-
By SAUL CARSON
JTA Correspondent
at the UN
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency
carried a dispatch reporting that,
on the Day of Remembrance,
May 1, the Israel government,
represented by Foreign Minister
Golda :Heir, dedicated on Har
Hazikaron (Mount R e mem-
brance), in Jerusalem two rows
of newly planted trees, named
"The Avenue of the Righteous
Gentiles." This boulevard com-
memorates the work of rescue
performed during the Nazi holo-
cau_st by many heroic non-Jews
not only in Denmark but also
in Poland and Russia, even in
Germany itself. Non-Jews who
performed such labors of love
were special government guests
at these ceremonies. Among
them was Oscar Schindler, a
German who had worked directly
under the aegis of the apparatus
headed by Adolf Eichmann him-
self.
The story of Schindler's work
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and a few families had been
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America. "There is still a
steady flow of Jewish refugees
from Cuba to Jamaica for
temporary accommodation," he
added, "and we are grateful to
the Jamaican authorities and
the Jewish community of Ja-
maica" for their cooperation
and pledge of continued co-
operation.
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United Hias Service reported
this week that 1,000 Jewish mi-
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States for permanent- resettle-
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