the movie schindler's list took place at ben kingsley.
where does the movie schindler's list take place?
ben kingsley
schindler grew up in svitavy, moravia, and worked in several trades until he joined the "abwehr", the military intelligence service of nazi germany, in 1936. he joined the nazi party in 1939. prior to the german occupation of czechoslovakia in 1938, he collected information on railways and troop movements for the german government. he was arrested for espionage by the czechoslovak government but was released under the terms of the munich agreement in 1938. schindler continued to collect information for the nazis, working in poland in 1939 before the invasion of poland at the start of world war ii. in 1939, schindler acquired an enamelware factory in kraków, poland, which employed at the factory's peak in 1944 about 1,750 workers, of whom 1,000 were jews. his "abwehr" connections helped schindler protect his jewish workers from deportation and death in the nazi concentration camps. as time went on, schindler had to give nazi officials ever larger bribes and gifts of luxury items obtainable only on the black market to keep his workers safe.
oskar schindler
when thomas keneally's 1982 novel "schindler's ark" was adapted into the movie schindler's list, bankier's historical role was combined composite character, along with the historical roles of itzhak stern and mietek pemper into a character called "itzhak stern". this was a distortion, most likely caused by the fact that most of keneally's and spielberg's historical witnesses knew schindler from his subsequent time in brünnlitz, not in kraków, where most of the film transpired, and bankier did much of his work. according to american holocaust historian david m. crowe: bankier’s skills as a businessman and a black marketeer provided oskar schindler with the vast resources he needed to hire, house, feed, transfer, and save hundreds of jewish workers.
abraham bankier