schindler’s list at remembrance day

I don’t know how I missed this interview from last week.  The BBC talked to Dr. Jonathan Dresner, one of approximately 60 survivors from Oskar Schindler’s “list.”

Mr Schindler is credited with rescuing nearly 1,200 Jews, whom he employed in his enamel and munitions factory in Krakow, in German-occupied Poland, shielding them from deportation to death camps.

Dr Jonathan Dresner, 85, who has lived in Israel since 1949, was one of those on Mr Schindler’s list of Jewish workers protected from the SS.

“All those who were on Schindler’s list were lucky people and we felt it at that time,” he said.

“When we saw Schindler walking around we felt safe. It was everything for us. It is the main reason why I am alive today, how I was able to build a new life after the war.”

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Of course, I can’t read any mention of Schindler without hearing Itzhak Perlman’s haunting violin in my head.

~ by melo on May 6, 2008.