Holocaust Figure. Born Mieczyslaw Pemper, during World War II he was a Jewish Polish citizen, when he was arrested in 1943 and sent to the Nazi concentration camp in Plaszow, Poland. Because he spoke German, he became the personal orderly and typist for the camp's brutal and feared German SS Commandant Amon Goeth. It was there that he befriended German industrialist Oskar Schindler and informed him that he secretly read in mail from Berlin, that all factories which were not producing goods for the Nazi war effort would be closed. He convinced Schindler a member of the Nazi party, to abandon enamel production at his plant and start making war ordinance. At great risk to his own life, Pemper supplied Schindler with a typed list of fellow prisoners to be recruited for work at the revised facility. Together with Schindler, he is credited with saving the lives of some 1200 Jews through work schemes and bribes paid to German officers. After the war, Pemper testified to the Polish Supreme National Tribunal at the trials against war criminals, where Amon Goeth was found guilty and hanged in September, 1946. Pemper remained a close friend of Oskar Schindler until he died in 1974. In 1993, Pemper served as an adviser to director Steven Spielberg on the film "Schindler's List", which won seven Oscars. He also is the author of best seller "The Road to Rescue: The Untold Story of Schindler's List" (2005), a book of his memoirs.
Holocaust Figure. Born Mieczyslaw Pemper, during World War II he was a Jewish Polish citizen, when he was arrested in 1943 and sent to the Nazi concentration camp in Plaszow, Poland. Because he spoke German, he became the personal orderly and typist for the camp's brutal and feared German SS Commandant Amon Goeth. It was there that he befriended German industrialist Oskar Schindler and informed him that he secretly read in mail from Berlin, that all factories which were not producing goods for the Nazi war effort would be closed. He convinced Schindler a member of the Nazi party, to abandon enamel production at his plant and start making war ordinance. At great risk to his own life, Pemper supplied Schindler with a typed list of fellow prisoners to be recruited for work at the revised facility. Together with Schindler, he is credited with saving the lives of some 1200 Jews through work schemes and bribes paid to German officers. After the war, Pemper testified to the Polish Supreme National Tribunal at the trials against war criminals, where Amon Goeth was found guilty and hanged in September, 1946. Pemper remained a close friend of Oskar Schindler until he died in 1974. In 1993, Pemper served as an adviser to director Steven Spielberg on the film "Schindler's List", which won seven Oscars. He also is the author of best seller "The Road to Rescue: The Untold Story of Schindler's List" (2005), a book of his memoirs.
Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith
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