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ing Poland. Slave laborer s,
When Schindler learned about
JTA News Editor
Schindler recalled, were ordered the train, he ordered all able-
NEW YORK (JTA) — "I hat ed to death camps.
bodied men in the camp to bring
the brutality, the sadism and t he
He obtained permission to I the survivors out of the train and
insanity of Nazism. I just could n't switch production from kitchen- into the camp. Schindler, who
stand by and see people destroye d. ware to armaments for the Luft- helped to unload these cattle cars,
I did what I could, what I had to
waffe and relocated his factory fed and clothed the survivors and
'o, what my conscience told me in Brunnlitz. brought them back to health.
must do. That's there is to
In 1945, when the 'Red Army
He demanded that all his work-
Really. Nothing more."
Three men sit ing around a ers — almost 900 by then — ac- in the east and the Allied armies
company
him
because
there
was
in
the west caught the German
table at the executive office of t he
American Friends of Hebrew U ni- too little time to train new work- army in a pincer and the war's
versity gazed affectionately at t he ers. The. Nazi high command alt.' end was imminent, Schindler, the
tall, powerfully built 64-year-o Id proved the requist and provided three men related, gave a party
man who spoke in German a nd him with 200 more Jews from in the camp and announced that
Plaszow to fulfill the quota for "it was -all over."
haltingly in Yiddish.
He armed a small group of in-
For these three men and for 72 the Luftwaffe. It was here that
Zuckerman,
Levenstein and Pan- mates with rifles and guns and
other people milling around ou t-
tirer first met Schindler. told - them to protect the others
side the room, Oskar Schindler
Levenstem recalled that Schin- against the retreating German
presence evoked the memory of 's
long ago time when the terror • dler"saw to it that no one in his army which might come through
Nazism was dissolved by the co of camp was beaten, that there was the camp and Unleash a final
enough food so that no one would bloodbath. Certain that his friends
passion and humanity of a ma m-
who three times braved arrest b y • go hungry. He managed to get would be safe, Schindler and his
the Gestapo to save some 1,40 300 women out of Auschwitz on wife headed for the American
Jews from the Nazi gas chamber 0 the excuse that 'he needed people lines.
s. for work. To accomplish this he
After the war, Schindler and
That was almost 30 years ago , had to go to Berlin.
his wife emigrated to Buenos
and now — several days ago —
"The SS was on top of him and
75 of the 1,400 whom he saved the Gestapo arrested him three - Aires where the two received
aid from the Joint Distribution
joined together to pay tribute times but let him go because the
Committee.
to Schindler.
Luftwaffe needed the armaments."
Mrs. Schindler still resides in
They announced that they had-
Pantirer recalled that "on the San Vincente, province of Buenos
raised $120,Q00 to dedicate a floor
High Holy Days, Schindler ar- Aires, and is aided by a monthly
of the Truman Research Center at ranged for inmates, his children
stipend from several Jewish or-
the Hebrew University on Mount
as he called them, to receive
Scopus in Jerusalem "in a living the traditional halls b r e a d. ganizations including the local Bnai
Brith lodge and the Israelite
tribute to Oskar Schindler."
When a camp inmate died be-
The floor will house a "Book cause of illness, Schindler ar- Philanthropic Association.
In 1967, Schindler received the
of Life" containing "the facts of ranged for Jewish burial serv-
Martin Huber Peace Priie and
Schindler's humanity" and the ice."
has
been honored by the German
names of all the survivors, mos
Zuckerman described another government, Pope Paul VI and
of whom now reside in the U.S
inetante
of
Schindler's
humanity.
the
Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
Murray Pantirer, A b r a h a
Zuckerman and Isak Levenste in During a freezing snow storm, the Now he was back_ with his'friends,
spearheaded the drive to raise th e Nazis abandoned a train-load of speaking to them partially in Yid-
Jews packed into cattle cars on a dish which he had learned during
$120,060 for "our friend" who no
resides in Frankfurt and works fo w railroad siding near the camp site his association with them in the
the German Friends of the Hebre w and left them to freeze to death. labor camp.
University.
In 1S42, Pantirer, who was the n CRT to Cnostruct S chool in Jerusalem
14, Zuckerman who was 33, an d
NEW YORK (JTA) — Construc- ing electronic, chemical, mechan-
Levenstein, who was 14, all from
Cracow, and other Polish Jew tion is about to begin in Jerusalem ical and nuclear engineering, and
on
a new technical college de- 'receive industrial training at the
were being herded into camps b y
signed to provide technicians and ORT Technical College.
he Nazis.
Of the 65,000 students currently
The able-bodied were sent to engineers for Israel's economy, it
labor camps In Plaszow, Zablocie was reported here by Dr. William enrolled, Dr. Haber reported that
Haber,
president
of
the
American
some 42,500 — about 66 per cent
and Brunnlitz in Poland and the
---are in Israel.
then-S u d e t e n l a n d in Czech- ORT Federation.
The new college will be erected
oslovakia. Pantirer, Levenstein
Greetings to the ORT 50than-
and Zuckerman were among by ORT on the campus of tha niversary celebration were re-
Hebrew University.
them.
from President Nixon, Is-
The announcement was made at ceived
Schindler, the sonof a prosper
Premier Golda Meir and for-
a dinner here celebrating the 50th raeli
0 us family which owned a farm
mer
Israeli
Prime Minister David
e quipment factory in Zwittau in anniversary of the founding of
Nixon's message declared that
he Moravian section of Czech- the American ORT Federation.
Nixon's message declared that
Meanwhile the ORT Federation
0 slovakia, acquired a kitchenware
f actory near Cracow where the voted a budget of $23,116,800, dele- "By teaching deprived individuals
N azis had expropriated Jewish gates noting that the deficit budget the skillfrequired for earning their
livelihood and participating pro-
p roperty. "I was an Austrian or was more than $500,000 short.
The sum was approved for the ductively in the programs of their
a Pole — the border changed so
m any tittles I lost touch," he said, cperation of the network of OM' communities, you have helped re-
I was repelled, no, *really hor- yocational and educational serv- duce poverty and 'raised living
r ified by the brutality of the Nazis. ice in Israel and other . Jewish standards throughout the world."
wasn't sure what I could or communities that is now operating
hould do, but I knew I had to 740 technical schools for 65,000
Ns Cufles, CANNTIld
ea
d o something. I had known Jews students.
Funds for ORT's overseas pro-
n my youth and I liked them.
grams are provided by its mem-
hese Nazis . . ."
In 1941 the Nazis issued an bership, and by the United Jew-
e diet that Jews could escape en- ish Appeal through an agreement
fo reed transfer from the area only with the Joint Distribution Com-
if they were employed in German, mittee.
0 wned firms. : Schindler hired Jews
Calling the new technical col-
w ho sought work:
lege "an educational breakthrough
great potential • impact," Dr.
He built barracks for them to
Ii ye in within. his factory com- Haber told smile i3 O00 delegates
the
college "aims to fill a gap
p ound and smuggled in the wives,
p arents .and children of tSe work- not only in Israel's educational
er s. He hid them until the Jew- system but in the economy of the.
is h underg;9kukaiu*Lejleat
country."
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that a lack of middle-leVe
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