Oskar Schindler

I am still reading Taken by Edward Bloor but I would like to set that aside and instead discuss the article I read for Resisters and Rescuers, Oskar Schindler. Oskar Schindler was a German Nazi, until one day he witnessed German police forcing Jews out of a ghetto and cramming them into trains that would take them to concentration camps. After bearing witness to this incident, Schindler found it his responsibility to do something about the wrongdoings that he had seen. Schindler decided that he would use his factory to keep 900 Jews safe from liquidation. At the factory, the Jews created (purposefully) inoperative ammunition for the German soldiers.

What I found really amazing about this story is that an average man could be transformed from being a German fascist, to a supporter of Jews during the holocaust. All it took was one incident to change this man’s way of viewing life! In class we wrote about what the true nature of human beings is. Schindler’s story just goes to show what one of our true natures is: to stand up against what is wrong.