Emilie Schindler

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Emilie Schindler (October 22, 1907 – October 5, 2001) was a humanitarian who worked together with her husband, Oskar Schindler, to save 1,200 Jews during World War II. Their efforts were the inspiration for the 1982 book Schindler's Ark, and the 1993 movie based on it, Schindler's List, from director and producer Steven Spielberg.

She was born Emilie Pelzl in the village of Alt Moletein, Austria-Hungary, (now in the Czech Republic). She married Oskar Schindler in 1928. She became estranged from her husband in 1957, and though they did not divorce, they never saw each other again.

She lived for many years in Argentina. She passed away in a hospital in Berlin, Germany of after effects of a stroke at 93 years of age.

Honored by several Jewish organizations for her efforts during the World War II. In May, 1994 she received the Righteous Among the Nations award along with Miep Gies, the woman who hid Anne Frank and her family in the Netherlands during the war.

At the end of the movie Schindler's List, the real-life Emilie Schindler lays a stone on the grave of Oskar Schindler, along with many of Schindler's Jews.