Emilie Schindler holds the title Righteous Among the Nations, given by Yad Vashem to those who saved Jews during the Holocaust at risk to themselves.
The record lists Emilie Schindler as Sudetenland-German who helped save lives during the Holocaust, wife of Oskar Schindler (1907-2001).
Emilie Schindler was born at Starý Maletín in 1907. Her recorded nationality is Germany.
By occupation Emilie Schindler was writer, autobiographer and human rights defender - which is the point worth holding onto: the rescuers were not a special class of person.
Yad Vashem's criteria are strict: the rescuer must have risked their life, liberty or position, and must have sought no payment. That is why the title carries the weight it does.
Recognition: Righteous Among the Nations (1993) and Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1995).
Emilie Schindler died in 2001, aged 94. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Righteous Among the Nations — 1993
- Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany — 1995
- Worked as writer, autobiographer and human rights defender
