Emilie Schindler in English and German translations. She appears in the Thomas Keneally novel "Schindler's Ark", and the 1993 film based on it, "Schindler's List", where she is played by Caroline Goodall. Emilie Schindler Emilie Schindler (née Pelzl; 22 October 1907 – 5 October 2001) was a Sudeten German-born woman who, with her husband Oskar Schindler, helped to save the lives of 1,200 Jews during World War II by employing them in his enamelware and munitions factories, providing them immunity from the Nazis. She was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Israel's Yad Vashem in 1994. She was born Emilie Pelzl
Endowment Fund for the Memorial of the Shoah and Oskar Schindler faithful replica on the original foundations, including concentration camp guard towers and factory space, hospital and camp prisoners." The memorial will also house space for exhibitions and conferences. The life of Oskar Schindler will be told through a trail around the complex. In 2004, the village of Brněnec, home of the factory, attempted to build a memorial but was unable to raise the necessary funds. Endowment Fund for the Memorial of the Shoah and Oskar Schindler The Endowment Fund for the Memorial of the Shoah and Oskar Schindler (Czech: Nadační fond Památník Šoa a Oskara Schindlera) is a charitable organization