Abraham Bankier was one of the owners of the Rekord factory that was taken over by a German Industrialist, spy, and member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving how many Jews during the Holocaust?
Abraham Bankier Abraham Bankier (1910-1956) was one of the owners of the "Rekord" factory on Lipowa street in Cracow, Poland, that Oskar Schindler took over during World War II. Schindler then hired Bankier to manage the factory, which was renamed "Deutsche Emailwarenfabrik Oskar Schindler", "Emalia" for short. Bankier was able to leverage black market dealings with extra scrap metal to bring additional Jews to work at the factory, thereby giving them a reprieve and ultimately saving many lives.
Gisi Fleischmann Gisi Fleischmann (1894 – 18 October 1944) was a Zionist activist and co-leader of one of the best known Holocaust era Jewish rescue group: the Bratislava Working Group. Mrs. Fleischmann was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp. The Working Group's other co-leader was Rabbi Michael Ber Weissmandl. Thanks to the efforts of the Working Group, which bribed German and Slovakian officials and paid negotiated ransom to the Germans, the mass deportation of Slovakian Jews was delayed for two years, from 1942 to 1944.