Oskar Schindler Quotes

April 28, 1908 – October 9, 1974

Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was a Sudeten German industrialist credited with saving almost 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust, by having them work in his enamelware and ammunitions factories located in Poland and what is now the Czech Republic.

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What is there to say? They are my friends. I would do it again, over and over — for I hate cruelty and intolerance.

Remark in 1972, as quoted in "Schindler : Why did he do it?" (2010) by Louis Bülow

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Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen. I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

Oskar Schindler
— After witnessing a day of Nazi roundups of Jews in Krakow, as quoted in Schindler's List (1982) by Thomas Keneally, Ch. 15

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There was no choice. If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?

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— To Poldek Pfefferberg, in response to the question of why he risked so much, as quoted in "Schindler : Why did he do it?" (2010) by Louis Bülow

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I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings.

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— Response in 1965, to Moshe Bejski, one of the Schindlerjuden, who later a became a justice on the Supreme Court of Israel and president of the Commission to honor the Righteous Among the Nations, as quoted in "Schindler : Why did he do it?" (2010) by Louis Bülow.

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Now you are finally with me, you are safe now. Don't be afraid of anything. You don't have to worry anymore.

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— Greeting 300 of his women workers he had saved from Auschwitz, on their return to his factory, as quoted in "Schindler : Why did he do it?" (2010) by Louis Bülow

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