Rena Ferber - today Rena Finder - was only 10 years old when the Nazis invaded Poland. She later wrote: "I would not be alive today if it wasn`t for Oscar Schindler, my Mother survived and so did my grandfather. It's a tragedy that Oscar Schindler died young before the world could aknowledge his heroism. His country men considered him a traitor, to us he was our God, our Father, our protector."

Rena Ferber

Hela Brzeska , today Helen Beck, was 15 when she was thrown into Goeth`s camp a kitchen help. She describes Goeth as being "incredible bloodthirsty - he would walk the line with his dogs and order them to rip people apart. And after a few minutes of torture, Goeth would shoot them in front of everyone ..."

Hela Brzeska

Bronia Gunz was saved by Oscar Schindler. She remembers how Schindler told the prisoners to dig graves to deceive the Nazis. But he assured them he could save them and then he disappeared for days. "We were digging the graves and thinking: This is the end" Gunz says. "One day this beautiful, gorgeous man shows up with a piece of paper, and he says: Saved, no digging anymore. He was for us like God ... "

Bronia Gunz

Amon Goeth`s maid Helena Hirsch was saved by Oscar Schindler from a life of terror and humiliation and the certain death in the Auschwitz death camp - he outwitted the commandant of Plazow Goeth and "won" her in a card game.

Helena Hirsch

Leib Lejzon - today Leon Leyson - says he was 'just a skinny kid' during World War II. But Oscar Schindler developed a fondness for him, nicknaming him "Little Leyson" and showing him many kindnesses: extra soup and bread; and when his vision began to blur from the factory work, he was excused from the night shift. The most important act was putting him on the final list. His two eldest brothers did not survive the war, but he, his parents and brother and sister were saved by Oscar Schindler.

Leib Lejzon

Wiktor Lezerkiewicz - now Victor Lewis - was put on Schindler`s List on page 2, No. 108. He considers it a miracle - he was electrician in Oscar Schindler`s factory, though he knew absolutely nothing about the trade ... He emigrated to USA in 1949.

Wiktor Lezerkiewicz

Ignacy Liebermann and his family were deported to the Crakow ghetto and with the liquidation of the ghetto he was transferred to Plaszow camp. He worked as a tailor in the uniform factory of the Righteous Gentile, Julius Madritsch, and was chosen by Oscar Schindler to be his personal tailor. He passed away in 1969.

Ignacy Liebermann

Edith Wertheim, then Etka Liebgold , recalls how 300 Schindler women were interned at Auschwitz:"One night they took us to the gas chamber. We were waiting the whole night - in the morning we found out: Schindler is here!" He had come to rescue them , bribing the Nazis to retrieve the women on his list and bring them back. Years later Oscar Schindler attended her wedding ...

Edith Wertheim

Leopold Pfefferberg , a holocaust survivor who was instrumental in publicizing the story of Oscar Schindler. He and Ludmilla were saved by Schindler - the rest of his family was not as lucky - almost 100 perished including his parents, sister and brother-in-law.

Leopold Pfefferberg

Puntierer - Murray Pantirer - lost both his parents, two sisters and four brothers during the Holocaust. After the war he built up a great fortune as a magnate in USA. He honoured Schindler in his own special way. Every time a new town district was planned and built, at least one street was named after Schindler ... In New Jersey alone there are 21 Schindler Streets, and even a Schindler Plaza.

Puntierer – Murray Pantirer

300 women, all Schindler Jews, were deported in cattle cars to certain death in Auschwitz, among them Marianne, now Manci Rosner. Oscar Schindler got them released - the only shipment out of Auschwitz. When the women returned, Schindler met them in the courtyard. Surrounded by SS guards he gave them an unforgettable guarantee:"Now you are finally with me, you are safe now. Don`t be afraid of anything." Manci Rosner says:"I am so thankful to Oscar Schindler. We never would have survived it .."

Manci Rosner

Sol Urbach was 15 years old when he was taken to the Plazow concentration camp. He was one of the fortunate saved by being on Oscar Schindler's list. For Sol Urbach, the Holocaust meant the death of allmost his entire family. After the war he emigrated to USA.

Sol Urbach