History: Defenders during the Holocaust“Whoever saves just one life, saves the whole world.”Anti-Semitism, hatred or prejudice towards Jews, torments the world for a long long time, particularly during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a landmark disaster that occurred in the early 1940s and will be remembered forever. Also known as the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, an assassination by German Nazis led by Adolf Hitler. Emilie and Oscar first met in 1928 when Oscar was selling electric motors on the doorstep of his father's farm in Alt Moletein. Six weeks later, they married on March 6, 1928 on the outskirts of Oscar's hometown of Zwittua. In the 1930s Oscar Schindler was unemployed and joined the Nazi Party because he saw the possibilities the war offered. He followed in the footsteps of the SS when Germany invaded Poland. He left Emilie in Zwittua and broke into the apartment of a Jewish family in Krakow. He takes control of a Jewish-owned enamelware factory near the Jewish ghetto. Little by little, the brutality of the Nazis ...
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