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10 1 Michael Oskar Schindler Biography Final
10 1 Michael Oskar Schindler Biography Final
Michael Adoe
Hannah E. Meeuwse
IS 10
7 October 2014
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will join the factory, where they will make fail ammunitions. In total, there were about 1,100
Jews that I have employed in the factory. After the war ended in 1945, I fled and settled in
Argentina, where I tried to farm but it just made me bankrupt. At the end of my life, I lived under
the provision of donations, where Yad Vashem named me a Righteous Gentile in 1962. I died in
1974, and was buried in the Catholic cemetery on Mount Zion in Jerusalem.
I think that human rights exist because it is all inherited since the beginning of life. Each
person is primed with human rights because we are all the same, and we are born equal. Human
rights are important because they will protect the dignity of a person and it will also bring justice
to the every person. The reason why I saved thousands of Jews that sorrowful event was because
I believe that each person has the right to life and not perish only for a mission and vision of a
single person to rule and wipe out the entire Jewish race. I have respect for human life, and
nothing would stop me from saving the faith of humanity. Although Germans are my friend and I
betrayed them because I hate cruelty and intolerance. Looking all through the vastness of the
concentration camps, where dead people are laying everywhere, and the smoke of the
crematorium would never stop burning, I realized that the Jews need justice. I say that it is unfair
for the Jews to be killed without any reason to prove that they are guilty. Being raised as a
Catholic, it is forbidden for people to kill, and this has influenced my personal views towards
human rights. I did not actually know any motivations that brought me to save the Jews at the
time of the Holocaust. It is only because of my hate about cruelty that I saved. Although I am
born and raised as a German, it does not stop me to save life no matter who they are, and in this
case are the Jews. My brave and heroic move to save the Jews in my factory was because I
wanted justice not only for the Jews, but also for all humanity. I also want people and future
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generations to learn that they must not look to their race and where they are from if they want to
help and give protection.
A4
D5
Michael, Your biographical information is good but in great need of detailed explantions. Your
analysis integrates class discussion well but could also be deeper. No bibliography (-1 from
criteria A)