Post-War Life
After the war, the Russians sent many former Nazis to concentration camps so they could suffer as they made others suffer. Since Schindler was a German, a Nazi, a manager of the concentration camp factory, and a profiteer during the Holocaust, he was sent to one of the camps. Some of the Jews he had saved then rescued him from that camp and brought him to an allied land in the west. After he had surrendered there, Oskar, Emily, two other mistresses, and three families he had saved all travelled to Buenos Aries, Argentina to begin a new life. In 1957, Oskar Schindler faced his biggest fear; bankruptcy.
In 1958, he left his wife, Emily, and fled back to germany never to see her again. There, the people had learned all about his actions and called him a “traitor” and a “Jew-kisser” and some pelted him with rocks. He had even been a victim of attempted murder. As if his life couldnt get any worse, he even contemplated suicide but decided to keep living only to not give his enemies satisfaction. At the lowest point in his life, he started to get recognition for his good deeds.
He had a tree planted in honor of him in the holocaust garden in israel that still stands today, he got many grants for doing what he had done (including in 1967 when Oskar Schindler received the martin buber peace prize and had been honored by the german government, the pope (Pope Paul VI), and the Yad Vashem in Jerusalem) and the jews he had saved even made a foundation called the Schindler Juden (Schindler Jews) devoted to giving him economic stability when he needed it most. When he died of a heart attack at age 66, the Schindler Juden brought his remains to Israel where he had always dreamt of being buried and over 500 survivors paid their respects to him by placing rocks on his grave.
In 1958, he left his wife, Emily, and fled back to germany never to see her again. There, the people had learned all about his actions and called him a “traitor” and a “Jew-kisser” and some pelted him with rocks. He had even been a victim of attempted murder. As if his life couldnt get any worse, he even contemplated suicide but decided to keep living only to not give his enemies satisfaction. At the lowest point in his life, he started to get recognition for his good deeds.
He had a tree planted in honor of him in the holocaust garden in israel that still stands today, he got many grants for doing what he had done (including in 1967 when Oskar Schindler received the martin buber peace prize and had been honored by the german government, the pope (Pope Paul VI), and the Yad Vashem in Jerusalem) and the jews he had saved even made a foundation called the Schindler Juden (Schindler Jews) devoted to giving him economic stability when he needed it most. When he died of a heart attack at age 66, the Schindler Juden brought his remains to Israel where he had always dreamt of being buried and over 500 survivors paid their respects to him by placing rocks on his grave.