Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for Oskar Schindler across 5 places, from 1908 to 1944.
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Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was a German industrialist and humanitarian who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in German-occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Oskar Schindler was documented, and when
28 April 1908exact date
Austria-Hungaryattested“Schindler was born on 28 April 1908, into a Sudeten German family in the city of Zwittau, then part of the Margraviate of Moravia within Austria-Hungary.”source: Wikipedia: Oskar Schindler
1940year
Turkeyattested“Schindler continued to work for the Abwehr until as late as fall 1940, when he was sent to Turkey to investigate corruption among the Abwehr officers assigned to the German embassy there.”source: Wikipedia: Oskar Schindler
1940 to 1941period
Krakówattested“Emilie Schindler visited for a few months in 1940 and moved to Kraków to live with Oskar in 1941.”source: Wikipedia: Oskar Schindler
15 October 1944exact date
Brněnecattested“On 15 October 1944, a train carrying 700 men on Schindler's list was initially sent to the concentration camp at Gross-Rosen, where the men spent about a week before being rerouted to the factory in Brünnlitz.”source: Wikipedia: Oskar Schindler
15 October 1944exact date
Gross-Rosenattested“On 15 October 1944, a train carrying 700 men on Schindler's list was initially sent to the concentration camp at Gross-Rosen, where the men spent about a week before being rerouted to the factory in Brünnlitz.”source: Wikipedia: Oskar Schindler
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6 March 1928exact date
Maletínmentioned“On 6 March 1928, Schindler married Emilie Pelzl, daughter of a prosperous Sudeten German farmer from Maletein.”source: Wikipedia: Oskar Schindler
January 1939month
Zwittaumentioned“After some time off to recover in Zwittau, Schindler was promoted to second in command of his Abwehr unit and relocated with his wife to Ostrava (Ostrau), on the Czech-Polish border, in January 1939.”source: Wikipedia: Oskar Schindler
January 1939month
Ostravamentioned“After some time off to recover in Zwittau, Schindler was promoted to second in command of his Abwehr unit and relocated with his wife to Ostrava (Ostrau), on the Czech-Polish border, in January 1939.”source: Wikipedia: Oskar Schindler
October 1939month
Krakówmentioned“Schindler first arrived in Kraków (Krakau) in October 1939 on Abwehr business and took an apartment the following month.”source: Wikipedia: Oskar Schindler
1943year
Budapestmentioned“In 1943, Schindler was contacted by Zionist leaders in Budapest via members of the Jewish resistance movement.”source: Wikipedia: Oskar Schindler
July 1944month
Auschwitz concentration campmentioned“As the Red Army of the Soviet Union drew nearer in July 1944, the SS began closing down the easternmost concentration camps and evacuating the remaining prisoners westward to Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen concentration camp.”source: Wikipedia: Oskar Schindler
January 1945month
Brněnecmentioned“In January 1945, a trainload of 250 Jews who had been rejected as workers at a German mine in Goleschau in occupied Poland arrived at Brünnlitz.”source: Wikipedia: Oskar Schindler
January 1945month
Goleszówmentioned“In January 1945, a trainload of 250 Jews who had been rejected as workers at a German mine in Goleschau in occupied Poland arrived at Brünnlitz.”source: Wikipedia: Oskar Schindler
Argentinamentioned“In 1949, Schindler emigrated to Argentina, where he tried raising chickens and then nutria (coypu), a small animal raised for its fur.”source: Wikipedia: Oskar Schindler
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