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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 372

Oskar Schindler

Former Supreme Court Justice Hanan Melcer speaks at a press conference for media freedom in Israel, at Bar Ilan university, February 26, 2023 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
February 4, 2024, 3:55 pm
Ex-Supreme Court justice Melcer to lead panel that selects Righteous Among Nations
Retired judge, whose father was rescued by Oskar Schindler and whose mother survived Auschwitz, calls appointment to Yad Vashem committee a ‘great honor’
By ToI Staff
Gal Gadot hosted Holocaust survivor Celina Biniaz at her LA home for a Zikaron Basalon event on Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 18, 2023 (Courtesy Tori, DMWA)
April 20, 2023, 7:41 am
Gal Gadot hosts Holocaust survivor for remembrance event in her LA home
Celina Biniaz, the youngest female survivor rescued by Oskar Schindler, speaks to Hollywood A-listers
By Jessica Steinberg
'Schindler's List' leggings for sale on the artisan site Redbubble. (Screenshot via JTA)
April 22, 2022, 11:15 pm
E-commerce site restricts ‘Schindler’s List’ design after leggings go viral
Clothing article sported illustrations of characters from Steven Spielberg’s 1993 Holocaust drama, along with an image of a train leading into Auschwitz
By JTA
Oliwia Dabrowska on the Ukrainian border in 2022; and as a child in the film 'Schindler's List' (Instagram; screenshot)
April 22, 2022, 8:36 pm
Girl in red coat from ‘Schindler’s List’ helps refugee children on Ukraine border
Volunteering with people fleeing to Poland, Oliwia Dabrowska, now 32, says she sees echoes of her iconic character in the kids she meets; hopes she can inspire action in others
By ToI Staff
Mimi Reinhardt, the secretary of Oscar Schindler on April 24, 2008. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
April 8, 2022, 8:21 pm
Oskar Schindler’s Jewish secretary, who drew up his worker lists, dies at age 107
Mimi Reinhardt registered employees for German industrialist’s factories, helping save hundreds during Holocaust; spent her last years living in Israel
By AFP
Using an expired Spanish law that extended citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain in 1492, Ángel Sanz-Briz saved 5,200 Hungarian Jews from being deported to Auschwitz in 1944. (Centro Serafad-Israel/ via JTA)
October 16, 2021, 8:28 am
Spain wants to find descendants of 5,200 Jews saved by the ‘Spanish Schindler’
Ángel Sanz Briz saved 5,200 Jewish Hungarians by issuing fake passports and buying 11 apartment buildings as safe havens, but the anti-Israel Franco regime stifled his legacy
By Orge Castellano
Omid Safari
February 12, 2021, 11:05 am
Omid Safari
In Iran, I was taught to hate Israel and Jews. Then I watched Schindler’s List.
Spielberg’s movie undid decades of lies, inspired me to visit Auschwitz, and taught me that the truth will always, eventually, come to light
Filmmaker Steven Spielberg at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, in Beverly Hills, California, February 28, 2019. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
June 16, 2020, 10:49 am
Steven Spielberg mistook Oskar Schindler’s wife for a Jew she saved
Filmmaker angered Emilie Schindler with 1993 letter inviting her and her ‘spouse’ to ‘Schindler’s List’ epilogue
By ToI Staff
Jason Brown performs during the International Skating Union Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series exhibition, October 20, 2019, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/David Becker)
November 5, 2019, 3:55 am
Jewish Olympian now skates to music from ‘Schindler’s List’
Figure skater Jason Brown wins silver at Grand Prix international competition while performing to John Williams’ film soundtrack
By Emily Burack
Descendants of Jews saved by Oskar Schindler gather at his gravesite in Jerusalem on October 7, 2019 (Channel 13 screenshot)
October 8, 2019, 1:39 pm
Schindler honored by children of those he saved — and a single survivor
As group congregates to mark 45 years since German industrialist’s death, one woman says her parents, whom he saved, begat over 150 descendants: ‘It is all your doing’
By ToI Staff
Oskar Schindler helped prepare the false-flag attack at the Gleiwitz radio tower prior to Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939 (public domain)
August 30, 2019, 12:00 am
80 years ago, how a very different Schindler’s ‘list’ helped ignite WWII
Controlling up to two dozen German spies, Oskar Schindler helped stage the false-flag ‘Gleiwitz Incident’ to justify Germany’s invasion of Poland
By Matt Lebovic
Illustrative: The lower part of the Schindler factory next to a demolished 19th-century building. (photo credit: Eva Munk/JTA)
March 23, 2019, 11:06 pm
Descendant of Jewish family that owned Schindler factory helps make it a museum
Daniel Low-Beer says though the facility was stolen from his family, the late German industrialist ‘used it for good and saved 1,200 Jews’
By ToI Staff
A picture of Oskar Schindler (L) and his wristwatch, which were sold at an auction in March 2019. (RR Auction)
March 8, 2019, 6:38 pm
Oskar Schindler’s possessions auctioned for nearly $50,000
Items sold include watch and compass German industrialist and his wife are said to have used to flee advancing Russians
By ToI Staff
Oskar Schindler during one of more than one dozen visits he made to Israel, beginning in 1961. During the Holocaust, Schindler used his factory and bribes to help save Jews from deportation to Nazi-built death camps (public domain)
February 28, 2019, 1:27 am
Oskar Schindler’s personal possessions hit auction block
Wristwatch, compass and pens of iconic savior of Jews during the Holocaust come from the estate of his wife Emilie, who died in 2001
By AP
Visitors to the escape room in Thessaloniki smile with a list of 'innocents' they retrieved during the game (Facebook)
January 12, 2019, 3:34 am
Thessaloniki escape room offers ‘Schindler’s List’-themed fun
Game experience avoids explicitly mentioning Jews or the Holocaust, provides visitors 60 minutes to retrieve a list of WWII ‘innocents’ and save their lives
By ToI Staff
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