Mimi Reinhard, who helped organize Oskar Schindler’s life-saving list in WW II, dead at 107
Mimi Reinhard, a secretary in Oskar Schindler’s workplace who typed up the listing of Jews he saved from extermination by Nazi Germany, has died in Israel on the age of 107.
Reinhard died early Friday and was laid to relaxation Sunday in Herzliya, close to Tel Aviv, her son, Sasha Weitman, confirmed.
She was one in every of 1,200 Jews saved by German businessman Schindler after he bribed Nazi authorities to let him hold them as employees in his factories. The account was made into the Oscar-winning 1993 movie Schindler’s Checklist by director Steven Spielberg.
Reinhard was born Carmen Koppel in Vienna, Austria, in 1915, and moved to Krakow, Poland, earlier than the outbreak of the Second World Battle. After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, she was confined to the Krakow ghetto earlier than being despatched to the close by Plaszow focus camp in 1942.
‘I did not comprehend it was such an essential factor’
Reinhard’s data of shorthand acquired her work within the camp’s administrative workplace, the place, two years later, she was ordered to kind up the handwritten listing of Jews that had been to be transferred to Schindler’s ammunition manufacturing unit.
“I did not comprehend it was such an essential factor, that listing,” she instructed an interviewer with Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Middle, in 2008. “To begin with, I acquired the listing of those that had been with Schindler already in Krakow, in his manufacturing unit. I needed to put them on the listing.”
Later she put her personal title, and the names of two buddies.
On the Brunnlitz labour camp, the place Schindler’s ammunition manufacturing unit was housed, she was put to work in Schindler’s workplace.
She stated that though she labored in Schindler’s workplace towards the tip of the warfare, she had little private contact with him.
“He was a really charming man, very outgoing,” she recalled, many years after the warfare. “He did not deal with us like scum.”
Schindler died in then-West Germany in 1974.
After the warfare, Reinhard made her method to the USA, the place she lived till immigrating to Israel in 2007 on the age of 92.
Weitman, Reinhard’s son, stated that after coming to Israel she “grew to become a form of a celeb” due to the Schindler’s Checklist movie’s reputation, one thing he stated “pumped one other 15 years into her life.”
