Emilie Schindler (October 22, 1907 - October 5, 2001) was a humanitarian who worked together with her husband, Oskar Schindler, to save 1,200 Jews during World War II. Their efforts were the inspiration for the 1982 book "Schindler's Ark", and the 1993 movie based on it, "Schindler's List", from director and producer Steven Spielberg. She was born Emilie Pelzl in the village of Alt Moletein, Austria-Hungary, (now in the Czech Republic). Wikipedia
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Emilie Schindler showed us an intriguing glimpse at the shadow world between memory and legend. Her husband Oscar Schindler became a household name as one of the great humanitarians of the century, saving 1,200 Jews from certain death in the Nazi death c www.deathcamps.info/Leyson/Emilieschindler.htm
In 1993, however, Emilie was awarded Israel's Righteous Among The Nations Award for her virtually single-handed success in stopping the Nazis from sending a trainload of 120 Jewish men, women and children to Auschwitz. One scene of Spielberg's film was s www.guardian.co.uk/news/2001/oct/09/guardianobituaries.ka...
Emilie Schindler does not refer to her late husband as "Oskar" but only as "Schindler." It is a measure of her contempt. "Schindler never sent anything. He spent the money on women." ... Emilie Schindler did not receive Yad Vashem's distinction of b www.southerninstitute.info/holocaust_education/slguid5.html