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RG-20.003 Oskar Schindler Papers, 1945–1987
USHMM, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies � 255
This collection contains letters, photographs, and articles relating to the life of Oskar
Schindler and his efforts to save his Jewish factory workers from deportation and death.
Included in the materials is a copy of a list, dated April 18, 1945, of Jewish inmates of
Brünnlitz, a subcamp of Gross-Rosen in Czechoslovakia, that was associated with Oskar
Schindler‘s munitions factory. Using an early list the previous year, Schindler had moved
workers from his factory in Poland, as well as other Jews, to relative safety in the
Brünnlitz camp.
Biographical/historical note: Oskar Schindler was a Catholic native of Czechoslovakia,
who operated a factory near Kraków, Poland, where he managed to save some 1,200
Jews from death during the Holocaust. After World War II, Schindler went to Argentina
with the aid of Jews he saved. He returned to Germany after several years and worked for
the German Friends of Hebrew University. He was named a Righteous Gentile by Yad
Vashem and was buried in Jerusalem after his death on October 9, 1974.
Provenance: Source of acquisition is Murray Pantirer.
Languages: English and German
1 folder
Finding Aids: Item list
Restrictions: Published articles protected under copyright
RG-20.004 Records Relating to the Investigation of Giorgio Perlasca by the United
States Holocaust Memorial Council, 1945–1990
This collection contains four folders of letters, newspaper and magazine articles,
testimonies, and interviews concerning Giorgio Perlasca‘s. During World War II,
Perlasca worked for an Italian livestock firm and was stationed in Hungary. Connections
with the Spanish embassy in Budapest gave him an opportunity to pose as an embassy
official and to rescue thousands of Hungarian Jews from deportation.
Provenance: The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council collected the materials during an
evaluation of Giorgio Perlasca‘s assistance to Hungarian Jews prior to awarding him the
USHMC Medal of Remembrance in September 1990. The information was received from
Yad Vashem and various sources in Hungary and Italy. A file concerning the controversy
of Lazlo Szamosi was added to the collection.
Languages: English, Hungarian, Hebrew, German, and Italian
2.5 linear inches