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Early in 1949, a group of some 35 "Schindlerjuden" gathered privately at Aux Armes de Colmar, an Alsatian restaurant in the north of Paris, to celebrate their friend Oskar Schindler, who was then passing through the city.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 08281
Early in 1949, a group of some 35 "Schindlerjuden" gathered privately at Aux Armes de Colmar, an Alsatian restaurant in the north of Paris, to celebrate their friend Oskar Schindler, who was then passing through the city.

Early in 1949, a group of some 35 "Schindlerjuden" gathered privately at Aux Armes de Colmar, an Alsatian restaurant in the north of Paris, to celebrate their friend Oskar Schindler, who was then passing through the city.

Photographer
Alexander Taylor
Date
1949
Locale
Paris, [Seine] France
Photo Designation
RESCUE MISSIONS -- Schindler Mission -- Schindler and Schindler Jews (Postwar)
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Herbert Steinhouse

About This Photograph

Event History
The Sudeten German, Oskar Schindler (1908-1974), came to Krakow soon after the German invasion of Poland. There, he took over two previously Jewish-owned firms which manufactured and distributed enamel kitchenware. For a time he operated one of them as a trustee for the German occupation administration. Schindler then established his own enamelworks, known as Emalia, in the Krakow suburb of Zablocie. He employed mostly Jewish workers from the Krakow ghetto, since they were a cheap source of labor. The factory proved to be a temporary haven for Jews seeking protection from deportation. After the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto and the transfer of the survivors to the Plaszow concentration camp, Schindler used his influence with German officials to set up a branch of the camp for some nine hundred Jewish workers in his factory compound in Zablocie. By stark contrast to those who remained in the main camp, Schindler's Jews were treated humanely. In October 1944, with the approach of the Red Army, Schindler was given permission to transfer his enamelworks to Bruennlitz in the Sudetenland, where it was to be reestablished as an armaments factory. He succeeded in transferring with him between 700 and 800 Jewish men and 300 Jewish women, saving them from internment in the concentration camps of Gross Rosen and Auschwitz. In 1962 Schindler was named one of the Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Herbert Steinhouse
 
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