Oskar+Schindler

=Oskar S﻿chindler =



=__ Contents __=
 * =**Him background **=
 * =**What inspired him **=
 * =**His achievements **=
 * =**Why he is considered to be a groundbreaker and whether or not they fit the definition. **=
 * =**My definition of success **=
 * =**Dictionary definition of success **=
 * =**Ms. Rogge's Workshop **=
 * =**WIKI project ideas **=
 * =**Self Ivaluation **=

= Part 1 =

=__ Early Life __= ==// Oskar Schindler was born on the 28th of April, 1908 in Svitavy, A Moravian industrial town, which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He has a sister and the nearest living neighbours were a Jewish Rabbi family, and the two boys living there became Oscar's best friends. Oskar's family was one of the richest in Sviatvy, but due to the deep economic depression of the 1930s, the family company went bankrupt. Now poor and desperate, Schindler joined the Nazi party, as well as many other people at that time. Oskar Schindler was very good at social parties and soon befriended the local Gestapo chiefs and around this period of his life he lives happily. Around the beginning of the 1940s, he was a womanizer and a heavy drinker. Not many people could say that he was a good person. //==

=__ His Job __= ==// Oskar was recruited by the German Intelligence Agency to collect information about Polist people and was highly respected. This gained him quite a lot of popularity and would be a key tool in the later years, where he needs very good friends in high and important places.He left his wife Emilie in Zwittau and moves to Crakow where he takes over a Jewish apartment. In October 1939, after many bribes with money and illegal black market goods and with the support of German authorities he finally gained control of a Jewish-owned enameled-goods facotry, Deutsh Emailwaren Fabrik, close to the Jewish ghetto, where he started employing Jewish workers. He was assisted by Isaak Stern, a clever jewish accountant, who would later become one of his very close friends. This factory was mostly known to the Jews as "Emalia". The Jews were the cheapest and the most at this time. The production of enamel kitchenware for the German army was a huge success and Schindler immediately became rich once again. In January 1940 Schindler emplyed 250 Poles and seven Jews. Two years later his small enamelware factory has grown into a huge company where 370 Jews from the Krakow Ghetto together with around 430 non jewish Polish workers were hired. //== =__ La﻿ter life __= ==// Oskar Schindler easily adapted to his new lifestyle of riches. He became a well-respected guest on SS parties, having easy chats with high-ranking SS officers, often for his benefit of his workers. However, he treated his Jewish employees fairly. //==

// However, this was around the time when World War 2 broke out. //
==// Before the war, Poland was populated by 50,000 jews. But when Germany invaded, chaos happened. Jews were crowded into ghettos, randomly beaten and humiliated and killed. The jews were sold to Nazi 'investors', one of whom was Oskar Schindler. Never missing a change to make money, he rushed to Poland on the heels of the SS. He befriended the local Gestapo rich people. He new powerful friends helped him acquire a factory which he ran with the cheapest labour around at that time, the Jewish. //==

= = =__ His Achievment and Inspiration __=

==// At first, he seemed like the regular German industrialist taking advantage of the cheap jews. But after some time, something changed. After witnessing the horrors of the death camps, Schindler took pity on the Jews and bought alot of them into his factory, to work. In his factory, it was like a heaven to the Jews, because in Emalia, everyone in his factory was fed, no-one was beaten, no-one was killed, and Schindler was at the same time, making money. //== ==// When the Nazis were beaten back on the East Front, Schindler was living near the death camps in Crakow and Warsaw and finally went to Berlin to save his Jews from a certain death. With his life at stake, he used all his powers of persuasion and his advantage of knowing the right people to fight for his Jews. He protected his workers his 'Schindlerjuden' which means "Schindler's Jews", as they came to be called. He spent almost all his money, 4 million which was a lot of money back in those times, to hire 1,100 men, women and children from the death camps to work for his factory. Schindler was arrested three times onsuspicion of black market activites and complicity in embezzlement, as well as breaking the Nuremberg Laws by kissing a Jewish girl on his birthday. Amon Goth, the commandant of the Plaszow camp, and other SS guards used Jewsih property such as money, jewelry, and works of art for themselves, although according to law it didn't belong to them. Despite all this, Schindler continued to go out of his way to employ as much Jews as he could. //==

// He was granted permission to move the whole of his factory from Plaszow to Brunnlitz in occupied Czechoslovakia and furthermore, unheard of before, take all his workers with him. //
=__ Why he is considered a groundbreaker __= ==// Oskar schindler is considered a groundbreakers because nobody else really sacrificed all their money for other people's sake, especially the Jews, who he was supposed to be enemies with. He risked his life to save thousands of Jews, and after the war, he fled with his wife but failed in business and became broke. He ran out of money and left his wife. He lived in Israel after, living with some of the jews, constantly moving, and he soon died. He inspires hope and alot of his living Jews thank him, for if without him, they wouldn't be living. //==



=Part 3=

**Form your own definition of success (Ms Rogge's Workshop) **
====To me, success is to be able to achieve a goal that you have promised you would do. It is never easy to gain success. It is always very hard. To be able to succeed in something very difficult, I think you need to have self-control and patience, to be able to do hard things that you wouldn't normally do. ====

**What did you learn during Ms Rogge's Workshop? **
====I learned that we need to work very hard to be able to gain something as worthy as success. Alot of people don't get a chance to succeed, either they don't have enough patience or self control, and they don't have the discipline to be able to do what they want to do. They need to find out their weakness and be able to break through it, so that they can succeed and do things they can't normally do. ====

**Why do people fall short of achieving their potential? **
====People fall short of achieving their full potential because either they don't have the heart to do it or they think they are too good at it so they don't even try. People should learn that they are not perfect and learn from their mistakes, so that they can go even further in their path to success. Some people don't even try to gain their full potential, because they are either too lazy or they do not feel it is important enough to be trying that hard. But, everyone should be able to succeed, only if they try hard enough and they really want to with their whole heart. ====

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Why does God want us to achieve our full potential? **
====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">I think God wants us to achieve our full potential because he created us on this Earth for a reason, and I don't think he would be happy if we travel the wrong path that leads to destruction and nothingness, where the other path leads to success and a good life. God wants us to achieve our full potential because if we don't, we won't be fulfilling our lives with the right purpose. God made us different, each and every one of us, because he wanted each of us to do different things to help other people in their lives and in doing so we will be improving the flaws in our life, too. ====

**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">What do you think about this WIKI project - compared to a written assignment? What do you like and dislike? **
====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">I really liked working on this WIKI project. It is a lot more interesting than a written assignment, because while typing, you can get it done faster whereas writing takes a long time. I also like the fact that we are able to comment and give suggestions to my classmates and help them with their work same as they can help me in my work because it is very useful and is very easy to access. We can also look at our classmate's pages and compare them with ours, what is missing, what we have more or what they have more. This way, there will be competition and competition is very good if used in the right way. It can help us improve in our work, trying to be better than one other person. What I disliked about this WIKI project that it was done on the internet, and when children around my age are on a computer it can be very distracting. Some of us cannot concentrate fully on our WIKI project because we are distracted by the other sites, music, chatting with our friends, and computer games. However, some of us can concentrate fully on our WIKI project so it is very helpful to them to be able to type faster than writing on paper. Another thing I disliked about this WIKI project is that there is always some technical difficulty and whenever someone else is on your page and you want to save it you are not able to because that other person is using it and all your work that you had just done is gone because that other person was adding a picture on it. ==== ====**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Extra Work: Read 1 Corinthians 12:4 and 12:12-27. Search for the section where the writer explains how God made us all different so that we can function together to achieve a greater purpose. We are not all called to be successful groundbreakers at the same thing, but each of us has our own unique potential and giftings to achieve amazing things. **==== ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Corinthians 12:4 says “There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.” This verse means that God created each and every one of us differently, all with different kinds of spiritual gifts to help the others, but however, we are all still the same Spirit, meaning we are all connected, we are all unique, however, still the same, spiritually. Corinthians 12:12-27 shows that not one human being is superior or inferior to another, we are all equal, we are all the same, it doesn't matter if a person has more money, is taller, has better clothes, drives nice cars, begs on the street or has different interests. We are all the same. ====

=**__ Bibliography: __**=

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=__ Self Evaluation __= 25% Part 1 = Information and bibliography = 21/25 25% = Part 2 = Contributions and Comments = 19/25 25% = Part 3 = Personal Reflections = 24/25 = Layout, appearance and design = 23/25 OVERALL MARK = 87/100 =