1. Schindler’s List
Postscript

2. An opportunistic businessman, he was one of many who sought to profit from
the German invasion of Poland in 1939. Schindler gained ownership of a
factory in Krakow from its Jewish owner.
While witnessing a 1942 raid on the Krakow Ghetto, where soldiers were used
to round up the inhabitants for shipment to the concentration camp at
Plaszow, Schindler was appalled by the murder of many of the Jews who had
been working for him.
By the end of the war, Schindler had spent his entire fortune on bribes and
black-market purchases of supplies for his workers. Virtually destitute, he
moved briefly to Regensburg, Germany and, later, Munich, but did not prosper
in postwar Germany.
In fact, he was reduced to receiving assistance from Jewish organizations.
Eventually, Schindler emigrated to Argentina in 1948, where he went bankrupt.
Returning to Germany in 1958, he had a series of unsuccessful business
ventures. Schindler settled down in a little apartment in Frankfurt, West
Germany and tried again – with help from a Jewish organization – to establish
a cement factory. This, too, went bankrupt in 1961.
His business partner cancelled their partnership, saying, "...now it is clear that
you are a friend of Jews and I will not work together with you anymore."

3. Schindler’s factory in Krakow.

8. Schindler’s factory in his hometown of Brinnlitz, now in the Czech Republic. 1200 Jews were
liberated from this factory on the 10th of May 1945.

9. Amon Goeth
Born in Vienna Amon Goeth joined a Nazi youth group at seventeen, moved to a nationalist paramilitary group
at nineteen, and, in 1930, when he was twenty-two, joined the then outlawed Austrian Nazi Party.
His posting as commandant at Plaszow was his career zenith. The conditions of life at Plaszow were made
dreadful by Amon Goeth. A prisoner in Plaszow was lucky if he survived more than four weeks. Collective
punishment became frequent, torture and death were daily events. Groups passing one another on different
work shifts reported the daily number killed.

10. At Plaszow Amon Goeth passed his
mornings by using his high-powered,
scoped rifle to shoot at children playing in
the camp. Rena Finder, one of Schindler's
Jews then 14 years old, later
remembered Goeth as " .... the most
vicious and sadistic man ...". Another
Schindler-Jew, Poldek Pfefferberg,
recalled Goeth this way: "When you saw
Goeth, you saw death."

11. At the trial at the Supreme National Tribunal of
Poland, Kracow, 27th - 31st August and 2nd - 5th
September, 1946, Goeth was found guilty and
convicted of the murders of tens of thousands of
people.
(1) Amon Goeth as commandant of the forced labor camp at
Plaszow (Cracow) from 11th February, 1943, till 13th
September, 1944, caused the death of about 8,000 inmates by
ordering a large number of them to be exterminated.
(2) As a SS-Sturmführer Amon Goeth carried out the final
closing down of the Cracow ghetto. This liquidation action
which began on 13th March, 1943, deprived of freedom about
10,000 people who had been interned in the camp of Plaszow,
and caused the death of about 2,000.
Amon Goeth was hanged for his crimes on
September 13, 1946, not far from his camp.
Goeth leaves the courthouse after being sentenced to
death.

12. Auschwitz

13. Mother with their children step carefully out of the freight wagons that brought them to
Oswiecim, Poland. They were tired after several days journey. They had no idea that they were
brought to the Auschwitz Death Camp.

14. An undated file picture of the women's barrack in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

15. Women fit for work after the delousing process. The disinfection of those not selected for the
gas chambers, and the shaving of their heads, was all part of the "registration" process at the
camp. After they finished, they were given the prison uniforms seen in the picture.

16. Nazi criminals Irma Grese and Josef Kramer in the custody of the British at the end of World War II.
Survivors provided detailed testimony of murders, tortures, and other cruelties, especially towards
women, in which Grese engaged during her years at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. They testified to
acts of sadism, beatings and arbitrary shootings of prisoners, savaging of prisoners by her trained and
allegedly half-starved dogs, and to her selecting prisoners for the gas chambers. After a fifty-three
day trial, Grese was sentenced to hang.

18. Birkenau, photographed from an upper window in the entrance "death gate" building, September 2005.
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/maps/

19. Buchenwald, Germany

21. Liberation of the Camps
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_nm.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131&MediaId=381

22. April 11, 1945 - North of Ohrdruf, near the town of Nordhausen, the American Division came upon 3,000 corpses and
more than seven hundred barely surviving inmates. Both living and dead lay in two double-decker barracks, piled
three to a bunk. The rooms reeked of death and excrement.
Buchenwald barrack prisoners were reasonably healthy-looking and ready to assist in administering food. Little Camp
was a nightmare with 1,000 to 1,200 prisoners in a space meant for 450. In Germany in Defeat, Percy Knauth
described Little Camp's prisoners as, "emaciated beyond all imagination or description. Their legs and arms were
sticks with huge bulging joints, and their loins were fouled by their own excrement. Their eyes were sunk so deep
that they looked blind. If they moved at all, it was with a crawling slowness that made them look like huge, lethargic
spiders. Many just lay in their bunks as if dead." The smell of Little Camp, the smell emanating from discarded,
decaying flesh, burning bodies, and an open concrete ditch that serviced as the latrine, was indescribable. Even after
liberation, twenty prisoners in each Little Camp block died a day. They were gnomes, sticklike figures with sunken
eyes who would hobble forward to cry and yell at the sight of their liberators.
April 12, 1945 - Generals George Patton, Omar Bradley, and Dwight Eisenhower arrived in the camp at Ohrdruf. They
saw more than 3,200 naked, emaciated bodies that had been flung into shallow graves. Eisenhower insisted on
seeing the entire camp: a shed piled to the ceiling with bodies, various torture devices, and a butcher's block used for
smashing gold fillings from the mouths of the dead. Patton vomited behind the barracks. Eisenhower felt that it was
necessary for his troops to see for themselves, and the world to know about the conditions at Ohrdruf. The day
ended with news that Roosevelt had died. Many American soldiers did not know what they were fighting for.
Eisenhower realized that it was imperative for the soldiers to at least understand what they were fighting against. He
wanted the world to know of the conditions at the camps.
His message to Washington read: "We are constantly finding German camps in which they have placed political
prisoners where unspeakable conditions exist. From my own personal observation, I can state unequivocally that all
written statements up to now do not paint the full horrors."