Mimi Reinhardt, secretary of Oskar Schindler, helped him save Jews through the Holocaust
Mimi Reinhardt, who helped German industrialist Oskar Schindler compile his well-known lists that saved a whole bunch of Jews through the Holocaust, has handed away on the age of 107.
Born in Austria, Reinhardt was Jewish herself, and was employed by Schindler, working as his secretary till 1945. She was the person who drew up a number of lists of Jewish employees from the ghetto of the Polish metropolis of Krakow. These people have been subsequently recruited as employees at Schindler’s manufacturing facility, which saved them from deportation to Nazi dying camps. The scheme helped roughly 1,300 folks survive the Holocaust, with Schindler and his secretary placing their very own lives on the road.
This dramatic episode was portrayed in Thomas Keneally’s 1982 novel ‘Schindler’s Ark’, and the 1993 award-winning movie adaptation by Steven Spielberg, ‘Schindler’s Checklist’.
In 1993, Schindler – who died in 1974 – was acknowledged by Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum as one of many “Righteous Among the many Nations” – non-Jews who risked their lives to save lots of Jews through the Holocaust.
As for Reinhardt, she moved to New York after WWII and lived there till 2007, when she relocated to Israel, becoming a member of her son there. She spent her final years at a nursing dwelling within the neighborhood of Tel Aviv.
A journalist who visited her there stated that Reinhardt “took half within the actions of the nursing dwelling and was a bridge champion.” The lady additionally reportedly “surfed the online and monitored the inventory trade.”
The exact date of her dying isn’t instantly recognized.
“My grandmother, so pricey and so distinctive, handed away on the age of 107. Relaxation in peace,” Reinhardt’s granddaughter Nina wrote in a message to kin on Friday, as reported by AFP.
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