Thursday, November 8, 2007


I attended the Holocaust testimonial of William and Rosalie on November 7 at UNT. For those of you who missed it, William and Rosalie are Holocaust survivors and gave their testimony that was subsequently written into a book that was published through the Mayborn Literary Non-Fiction conference . Rosalie spoke about Oskar Schindler , the German Catholic entrepreneur who saved hundreds of Jews who were destined to go to death camps during WWII by convincing the Nazis that he would make the Jews productive by using them as forced labor working in his factories. Those Jewish survivors and their families will never forget Shindler and what he did to keep them alive by using this ploy. Oskar Shindler is buried in a Catholic Cemetery outside the Old City of Jerusalem in Israel. Jews customarily place stones on the gravesites of those they wish to remember and honor. In this picture, Shindler's gravesite is shown covered with stones. I paid tribute to Shindler in January of 2006 and took this photo. The enamelware made in Shindler's factories are on exhibit at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. A facsimile of Shindler's list is also on display.

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