How was Schindler viewed by Germans in post-war Germany?
Schindler was deprived of his nationality immediately after the war. His former business partner refused to work with him, people denounced him in the streets, and he received threats from former Nazis. Does evidence of the actual list still exist? In 1999, the list of Jewish employees drawn up by Oskar Schindler to save them from the Nazi death camps was discovered in a suitcase that was found while a couple was cleaning the home of their late parents. The family had been close friends of Schindler. This finding was reported by the german newspaper Stuttgarter Zeitung. Was the little girl in the red coat a real person? Steven Spielberg did not knowingly base the girl on an actual person. However, after seeing the film, holocaust survivor Roma Ligocka (pictured left – click to enlarge) identified with some of the film’s characters. In the Krakow ghetto, Ligocka was known to everyone by the strawberry-red coat she always wore. This encouraged her to write a memoir of her experiences. Th
