Sources
"Oskar Schindler." Encyclopedia of World Biography. Vol. 18. Detroit: Gale,
1998. Biography in Context. Web. 17 Apr. 2014. This is a secondary
source. This source helped us in finding general information about Schindler to get to know him as a person better. It informed us about his life and actions he took to help the Jews.
Oskar Schindler Documentary. Prod. Martin Kent. Martin Kent Films, 2010.
YouTube. Web. 19 May 2014. <https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=pDumJVv6GP8>. This is overall a secondary source but in part 5
of the documentary, there is a primary source (a video of schindler
talking) that we cropped and incorporated in our website. This also helped
us to visualize his life from not only his perspective but also from the
surviving Schindler Jews.
Schindler, Oskar. Interview. The Global Jewish News Source. N.p., n.d. Web. 17
Apr. 2014. <http://www.jta.org/1972/01/20/archive/
special-jta-interview-oskar-schindler-a-man-for-all-reasons>. This
is a primary source. It's an interview from 1972 with Oskar Schindler and
75 of the 1,400 people he saved from the concentration camps.
Schindler's List. Universal Pictures, 1993. Film. Schindler's List is a
secondary source. It was used to bring all the facts together and helped us
visualize his life. Also, it really showed and helped us understand how much the Jews went through and how Schindler acted before and after helping his workers.
Steinhouse, Herbert. "The Real Oskar Schindler." Literature of the Holocaust. Al
Filreis, Apr. 1994. Web. 16 Apr. 2014. <http://www.writing.upenn.edu/
~afilreis/Holocaust/steinhouse.html>. This interview with Oskar
Schindler is a primary source. It helped us a lot in our project because it showed us the thoughts of Schindler himself and not what everyone else was thinking or saying about him.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2014.
<http://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/online-features/special-focus/
oskar-schindler>. This source is a primary and secondary source
because it contains quotes from Schindler himself and some videos of him.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2014.
<http://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/online-features/special-focus/
oskar-schindler>. This source is a primary and secondary source
because it contains quotes from Schindler himself and some videos of him. It helped us in our project because the quotes gave us important information that he himself said.
"Oskar Schindler: An Unlikely Hero." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Holocaust Museum, n.d. Web. 16 Apr. 2014. <http://www.ushmm.org/
information/exhibitions/online-features/special-focus/oskar-schindler>.
This website is a secondary source. It helped us in our project to
get to know Schindler and his actions during the Holocaust as well as his
background before. Also, it gave us important dates to understand the time
period this was all taking place in so we knew more about what was also
going on around him during this time.
Yad Vashem. Yad Vashem, n.d. Web. 21 May 2014. <http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/
en/righteous/stories/schindler.asp>. This website article is a secondary
source. It helped us in our research and projects because it told us about
all the accomplishments he made and his hero-like moments. It also told us
about what happened to him after the war had ended and where he went.
Jewish Virtual Library. American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, n.d. Web. 21
May 2014. <http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/
schindler.html>. This website is a primary and secondary source. It
contained pictures of Schindler and workers from the actual time it was
taken that we used for our website so that is why it is considered primary.
Also, it is considered secondary because it contained information to better
inform us of the heroic actions and early life of Schindler. This website
was very helpful and benefited us.
Goldstein, Judie, and Julian Schamroth, eds. "Schindler's List." Schindler's
Legacy. Louis Bülow, 2009. Web. 21 May 2014.
<http://www.oskarschindler.dk/legacy/content2.html>. This webpage is
a primary source. It gave us the full list that Schindler made up, their
names, numbers, religion, nationality, ect. This really helped us in our
research because we saw the actual list of all the Jews that Schindler took
the time to save and have work for him. It shows the amount of care that
Schindler had for the Jews and that he really was a hero in the Holocaust.
"Auschwitz." Eastern Illinois University. Eastern Illinois University, n.d. Web.
21 May 2014. <http://www.eiu.edu/~eiutps/holocaust_auschwitz.php>.
This website is a secondary source. It helped us in our research and
website because it gave us a lot of background on Auschwitz and what it
was. This helped us link that to Oskar and how bad the concentration camps
were. It also helped us because it told us how many Jews died in Auschwitz.
Schindler's Legacy. Louis Bülow, 2009. Web. 21 May 2014.
<http://www.oskarschindler.dk/legacy/content4.html>. This website is
a secondary source. We used this webpage a lot to get information on why
people think Oskar Schindler did what he did and his motives behind helping
the Jews. Most people wouldn't think he would be that nice of a person
given his past. Also, the website gave us some quotes that we used in the
website that we made.