Schindler's list is a document of all the people who were employed at Oskar Schindler's factories. Schindler saved Polish Jews from the Nazi judenfrei project. He bribed SS officers in order to keep Jew's alive and out of camps and ghettos. Schindler was a flawed hero. In the beginning of the occupation of Krakow, he became an alcoholic and a womanizer. He took advantage of the misfortune of other people. After the war Schindler has be recognized by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. However, he has been acknowledged as a conventionally virtuous character. Schindler saw the people in the ghettos of Krakow and thought that he should help them.
His wife Emilie is quoted saying "He was fortunate therefore that in the short fierce era between 1939 and 1945 he had met people who had summoned forth his deeper talents." After the war, his business enterprise was ruined and he divorced his wife. Then, he ends up living a simple life in a small apartment in Frankfurt, and eventually arranged to live with his Jewish friends in Israel. He was commonly known among other Nazi party members as a traitor.
His wife Emilie is quoted saying "He was fortunate therefore that in the short fierce era between 1939 and 1945 he had met people who had summoned forth his deeper talents." After the war, his business enterprise was ruined and he divorced his wife. Then, he ends up living a simple life in a small apartment in Frankfurt, and eventually arranged to live with his Jewish friends in Israel. He was commonly known among other Nazi party members as a traitor.