[Schindler, Oskar] Emilie Schindler

Archive of photographs, correspondence and per💖sonal effects belonging to Emilie Schindler, including

c.90 letters and cards to Emilie Schin🎃dler, from well-wishers and those asking for her help and assistance ("...Dear Mrs Schindler...I am a 15 year old boy who lives in Rhode Island, USA. I would just like to take a moment of your time to thank you and your late husband for risking your own lives to save many Jewish lives..."), and AROUND 80 PHOTOGRAPHS, A NUMBER SHOWING OSCAR SCHINDLER, ONE OF HIM MOUNTING A HORSE (1944), Regensburg, San Vicente, and elsewhere, 1940s-1990s 

together with Emilie Schindler's German passport, issued on 31 March 1987, newspaper cuttings, including announcements of the death of Oscar Schindler on 9 October 1974, travel documents, cheques from well-wish▨ers, printed invitations, three plated trays presented by Asociacion Damas Rotary (21 June 1995), Departamento Adultos & Cultura (8 June 1996), La Comunidad Hebrea (10 August 1996), as an acknowledgement of Emilie Schindler's services to humanity, one engraved plated dish ("Oscar & Emilie Schindler"), a white metal, two-handled sugar pot with lid (stamped on base "Argento Besozzi"), a metal souvenir jug from Israel, three rings and a set of earrings, a musical clock (without glass), five books, including an 1824 edition of Schiller's poems (the 'Grätzer-Taschenausgabe'), three watches, two Argentine banknotes, and ten framed commemorative Oscar Schindler stamps issued by the Deutsche Bundespost (April 2008)  

A moving ensemble of diverse person🌄al effects belonging to Emilie Schindler (née Pelzl, 1907-2001), who with her husband Oskar (1908-1974) was responsible for saving some 1200 Jewish lives during the Holocaust. Following the war the couple lived in West Germany (Regensburg), later emigrating to Argentina, where they settled as farmers. After the failure of their marriage in the late '50s, Oskar returned to Germany, while Emilie remained in Argent🔯ina. In May 1994 both were named 'Righteous Among the Nations' by the Israeli government.