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Oscar Schindler
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Feiwel (today Franciso) Wichter, 75, was No. 371 on Schindler's List, the only one of the Schindler Jews living in Argentina:
As long as I live, I will always have a sincere and eternal gratitude for dear Emilie. I think she triumphed over danger because of her courage, intelligence and determination to do the right and humane thing. She had immense energy and she was like a mother.
Another survivor, Maurice Markheim, No.142 on the list, later recalled:
She
got a whole truck of bread from somewhere on the black market. They called me to
unload it. She was talking to the SS and because of the way she turned around
and talked, I could slip a loaf under my shirt. I saw she did this on purpose. A
loaf of bread at that point was gold .. There is an old expression: Behind
the man, there is the woman, and I believe she was the great human
being.
In May, 1945, it was all over. The Russians moved into Brunnlitz. The previous evening, Schindler gathered everyone together in the factory, where he and Emilie took a deeply emotional leave of them.
The Schindlers - and 1300 Schindler-Jews along with them - had survived ....
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