Schindler’s ‘thank you’ mail for sale
MORE than 70 letters of thanks to Oskar Schindler and his wife from Jews they saved in the Second World War are to be sold.
The German employer, a member of the Nazi party, ran factories in Poland on cheap Jewish labour.
But when Germany’s brutality emerged he protected workers by bribing SS officers and designating staff as vital munitions workers.
Wife Emilie sold jewels and clothes to buy food and medicine and together they saved 1,200 lives.
One letter says: “I was very moved by your courageous self-sacrifice.”
The mail to Schindler, who featured in 1993 film Schindler’s List, is set to make £700 next month at Crewkerne, Somerset.