Mimi Reinhardt, woman who typed up Schindler’s list, dead at 107

Mimi Reinhard died on April 8, 2022 at age 107.
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JERUSALEM — Mimi Reinhardt, a secretary in Oskar Schindler’s workplace who typed up the record of Jews he saved from extermination by Nazi Germany, has died in Israel on the age of 107.

Reinhardt died early Friday and was laid to relaxation Sunday in Herzliya, close to Tel Aviv, her son Sasha Weitman confirmed.

She was considered one of 1,200 Jews saved by German businessman Schindler after he bribed Nazi authorities to let him maintain them as staff in his factories. The account was made into the acclaimed 1993 movie “Schindler’s Listing” by director Steven Spielberg.

Reinhardt was born Carmen Koppel in Vienna, Austria, in 1915, and moved to Krakow, Poland, earlier than the outbreak of World Warfare II. After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, she was confined to the Krakow ghetto earlier than being despatched to the close by Plaszow focus camp in 1942.

Reinhardt’s data of shorthand acquired her work within the camp’s administrative workplace, the place, two years later, she was ordered to kind up the handwritten record of Jews that have been to be transferred to Schindler’s ammunition manufacturing facility.

Mimi Reinhardt was considered one of 1,200 Jews saved by German businessman Schindler.

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“I didn’t understand it was such an vital factor, that record,” she advised an interviewer with Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Heart, in 2008. “To start with, I acquired the record of those that have been with Schindler already in Krakow, in his manufacturing facility. I needed to put them on the record.” Later she put her personal title, and the names of two pals.

On the Brünnlitz labor camp, the place Schindler’s ammunition manufacturing facility was housed, she was put to work in Schindler’s workplace.

She mentioned that though she labored in Schindler’s workplace towards the tip of the conflict, she had little private contact with him.

“He was a really charming man, very outgoing,” she recalled, a long time after the conflict. “He didn’t deal with us like scum.”

The Schindler’s record papers that helped save Jews throughout the Holocaust.

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A 1968 photograph exhibits Oskar Schindler.

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After the conflict, she made her approach to america, the place she lived till immigrating to Israel in 2007 on the age of 92.

Weitman, Reinhardt’s son, mentioned that after coming to Israel she “grew to become a form of a celeb” due to the Schindler’s Listing movie’s reputation, one thing he mentioned “pumped one other 15 years into her life.”