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Woman who drew up Schindler’s lists during Holocaust dies at 107

Mimi Reinhardt was in charge of compiling names of Jews to work in German industrialist’s factory

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Mimi Reinhardt was in charge of compiling names of Jews to work in German industrialist’s factory

Highlights

  • Mimi Reinhardt was in charge of drawing up lists of Jewish workers from the ghetto of Kraków.
  • She was named by Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust museum as a member of the ‘Righteous Among the Nations’, an honour for non-Jews who tried to save Jews from Nazi extermination.
  • The lists that Reinhardt compiled for him helped to save about 1,300 people at considerable risk to his own life.
  • After the second world war, she moved to Israel in 2007 to join her only son, Sasha Weitman, who was then a professor at Tel Aviv University.
  • She said she found it hard to watch the film adaptation of Schindler’s Ark