Austrian Jew Mimi Reinhardt wrote industrialist Oskar Schindler’s life-saving list during World War II – now she died at the age of 107. Schindler’s secretary, who became known as the savior of hundreds of Jews from the Holocaust, died in Israel, her granddaughter Nina said in a report reviewed Friday by the AFP news agency.
“My precious and unique grandmother passed away at the age of 107. Rest in peace,” Reinhardt’s granddaughter wrote. Reinhardt had spent the last years of her life in a retirement home in the coastal town of Herzlia near Tel Aviv. Reinhardt, born in Vienna in 1915, came to Krakow in 1936. There she worked until 1945 as a secretary for the German factory owner Schindler and as such compiled the list of “Schindlerjuden”.
Famous by Hollywood movie
Schindler’s rescue operation, in which he saved more than a thousand Jews from death in the gas chamber, became world famous decades later in Steven Spielberg’s Hollywood film “Schindler’s List”.
After the war Reinhardt initially lived in New York. In 2007 she emigrated to Israel at the age of 92. “I feel at home,” she told reporters when she arrived in Tel Aviv.
Reinhardt once said that she couldn’t see the movie “Schindler’s List” until years after its premiere. Spielberg invited her to the film’s premiere in New York. “But I had to leave for the screening, it was too hard for me,” she said.
Source: Krone
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