Oskar schindler brief biography of abraham
Oskar schindler brief biography of abraham.
Steven Spielberg's film about an unlikely hero of the Holocaust — factory owner and Nazi Party member Oskar Schindler — opened in small number of U.S. theaters on Dec.
15, 1993, 30 years ago today.
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It would open nationwide on Feb. 4, 1994 and would go on to win seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Spielberg's first Oscar for Best Director.
Telling The Tragic Story Of The Holocaust
The real Oskar Schindler served as a Nazi spy in Czechoslovakia before buying factories in Poland after Germany invaded that country in 1939.
Schindler bribed German officials to allow him to use Jewish labor. Over time, Schindler became protective of his work force and worked to keep them from being sent to concentration camps. He died in 1974 at age 66.
Steven Spielberg became interested in the story when he read a New York Times review of Thomas Keneally's 1982 novel “Schindler's Ark.” Planning to tackle the project ten years later, he hired Kurt Luedtke — who had written