Oskar Schindler, page 103
35. “Prof. Drs. Kleinsorg and Risemeyer to Dr. Heinrich Staehr,” October 11, 1974, Bundesarchiv (Koblenz), Nachlaß Oskar Schindler, 1908–1974, Bestand 1493, No. 1, Band 8, 2 pages.
36. “Diary of Ami Staehr,” Ami Staehr Collection; “Ami Staehr to Traude Ferrari,” December 12, 1974, Ami Staehr Collection, 1.
37. “Ami Staehr to Dr. Moshe Bejski,” November 9, 1974, Bundesarchiv (Koblenz), Nachlaß Oskar Schindler, 1908–1974, Bestand 1493, No. 1, Band 22, 1–2.
38. “Ami Staehr to Traude Ferrari,” December 12, 1974, 1–2; Staehr and Staehr, interviews, October 22, 2000, and October 31-November 1, 2003.
39. Staehr and Staehr, interviews, October 22, 2000, and October 31-November 1, 2003.
40. “Ami Staehr to Traude Ferrari,” December 12, 1974, 2.
41. Bejski, interview, May 17, 1999; Trautwein, interview, May 25, 1999.
42. Bejski, interview, May 17, 1999; Ernie Meyer, “Saving Jewish Lives Was ‘a Moral Obligation,’” Jerusalem Post, October 29, 1974, n.p.; Dieter Trautwein, Oskar Schindler . . . immer neue Geschichten: Begegnungen mit dem Retter von mehr als 1200 Juden (Frankfurt: Societäts Verlag, 2000), 86–88.
43. “Sermon of Dr. Dieter Trautwein,” October 16, 1974, 1. Private papers of Dr. Dieter Trautwein. There is also a copy of his sermon in his Oskar Schindler, 88–90.
44. “Sermon of Dr. Dieter Trautwein,” October 16, 1974.
45. Ibid.
46. Ibid.
47. “Speech by Richard Rechen for Oskar’s Schindler Requiem Mass,” October 19, 1974, Frankfurt Germany, Private Papers of Kurt Klein. It can also be found in Dr. Dieter Trautwein’s Oskar Schindler . . . immer neue Geschichten, 91.
48. “Diary of Ami Staehr”; Ami Staehr said that it cost over DM 20,000 ($8,333) to ship his body to Israel, but Helmut Schmitz said that the cost was DM 10,000 ($4,166). The difference might have involved the costs of the caskets, embalming, and other funeral costs. The State of Hesse paid for its portion of the costs out of lottery proceeds. “Ami Staehr to Traude Ferrari,” December 12, 1974, BA(K), 1; Helmut Schmitz, “Wie ein großzügiger Habenichts zur Ehrenrente kam,” Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 1, 1994, 3.
49. “Ami Staehr to Traude Ferrari,” December 12, 1974, BA(K), 1; Bejski, interview, May 17, 1999; Trautwein, Oskar Schindler, 109.
50. Bejski, interview, May 17, 1999.
51. Joseph Waksman, “It is a Mitzvah (Commandment) to Accompany Him on His Last Journey—Even in a Church,” Ha’aretz, October 29, 1974, n.p.
52. Moshe Bejski, “Oskar Schindler and Schindler’s List,” Yad Vashem Studies, vol. 24, ed. Aharon Weiss (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1994), 345–346.
53. Bejski, “Oskar Schindler and Schindler’s List,” 346–347.
54. Ibid., 347–348.
55. “Ami Staehr to Traude Ferrari,” December 12, 1974, 1–2.
56. The original inscription on the gravestone was done in copper which was stolen by thieves, which had nothing to do with Schindler. This was later replaced with a new tombstone top with black lettering. Dr. Mordecai Paldiel, interview by the author, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel, May 12, 1999.
57. “Vollmacht Emilie Schindler,” January 22, 1976, Lastenausgleicharchiv (Bayreuth), 306 2230 D (OS), 1 page; Ausgleichsamt 55.31: Erfüllungsübersicht: Oskar Schindler, June 21, 1976, Lastenausgleicharchiv (Bayreuth), 403333, 1 page.
58. “Reinhard Albrecht to Dr. Moshe Bejski,” July 21, 1975, Bundesarchiv (Koblenz), Nachlaß Oskar Schindler, 1908–1975, Bestand 1493, No. 1, Band 18, 1–5; “Die Juden nennen Ihn ‘Vater Courage,’ Private Papers of Dr. Dieter Trautwein, Frankfurt, Germany, 12 pages, hereafter referred to as “Script for Vater Courage, Trautwein Papers”; Dr. Trautwein also discusses the production of the documentary in some depth in his Oskar Schindler, 111–121.
59. “Dr. Lotte Schiffler to Ami Staehr,” March 14, 1975, Bundesarchiv (Koblenz), Nach-laß Oskar Schindler, 1908–1974, Bestand 1493, No. 1, Band 18, 1 page.
60. “Albrecht to Bejski,” July 21, 1975, BA(K), 3–5.
61. Trautwein, Oskar Schindler, 111–113; script for Vater Courage, Trautwein Papers.
62. Script for Vater Courage, Trautwein Papers, 1–8.
63. Ibid., 8–9.
64. Ibid., 10–12.
65. “Poldek Pfefferberg,” Lest We Forget, http://www.oskarschindler.com/19.htm, 2; Ian Freer, The Complete Spielberg (London: Virgin Publishing Ltd., 2001), 223.
66. “Noah’s Ark of Oskar Schindler,” Ma’arev (Israel), November 5, 1982, 21.
67. Joseph McBride, Steven Spielberg: A Biography (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), 424–425; “Thomas Keneally to David M. Crowe,” February 2, 2004; “Poldek Pfef-ferberg, Lest We Forget, 2; Freer, Spielberg, 223–224.
68. Ackermann Gemeinde Hessen, Zur Erinnerung an Oskar Schindler dem un-vergeßlichen Lebensretter 1200 verfolgter Juden: Dokumentation der Gedenkstunden zum 10.Todestag am 14. Oktober 1984 in Frankfurt am Main (Frankfurt: Geschäftsstelle der Ackermann-Gemeinde Diözese Limburg, 1985), 1–52.
69. Ackermann Gemeinde Hessen, Zur Erinnerung an Oskar Schindler, 4–9.
70. Ibid., 11–18.
71. Ibid., 20–23.
72. Erika Rosenberg, ed. Ich, Emilie Schindler: Erinnerungen einer Unbeugsamen (Munich; F. A. Herbig, 2001), 162.
73. “Bernard Scheuer to Emilie Schindler,” June 12, 1983, in Rosenberg, Ich, Emilie Schindler, 163–165.
74. Ibid., September 16, 1983, 166.
75. Christoph Elflein, “Schindlers Last: Die Witwe des Judenretters ging beim Kinoerfolg leer aus. Ihre Erbin will nun Millionen von Universal,” Focus, No. 23, 2002, 58.
76. “Ami Staehr to Traude Ferrari,” May 30, 1985, Ami Staehr Collection, Stuttgart, Germany, 1 page.
77. “Traude Ferrari to Ami Staehr,” June 30, 1985, Ami Staehr Collection, Stuttgart, Germany, 1 page.
78. Jürgen Dahlkamp, “Die letzte Gefährtin,” Der Spiegel, No. 43, 1999, 116.
79. Staehr and Staehr, interviews, October 20, 2000, and October 31-November 1, 2003.
80. Terrence Rafferty, “Polanski and the Landscape of Aloneness,” New York Times, January 26, 2003, Section 2, 1; McBride, Steven Spielberg, 426–427; Freer, Spielberg, 223–224.
81. John Baxter, Steven Spielberg: The Unauthorized Biography (London: Harper- Collins, 1996), 392–393; Bernard Weinraub, “For Spielberg, an Anniversary Full of Urgency,” New York Times, March 9, 2004, B1, B4.
82.Weinraub, “For Spielberg,” B1, B4; Daisy Miller, interview by the author, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, Universal Studios, Los Angeles, California, March 28, 2000; Stryk Thomas, interview by the author, Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, Universal Studios, Los Angeles, California, March 28, 2000; Peter Gumbel, “Making History: Steven Spielberg’s Oral History of the Holocaust Survivors Has Videotaped 50,000 Interviews. Now Comes the Hard Part,” Wall Street Journal, March 22, 1999, R9; Ralph Blumenthal, “To Point, Click and Never Forget,” New York Times, January 13, 2001, A17, A22.
83. Corinna Honan, “Interview with Emilie Schindler,” Daily Mail (London), December 24, 1993, 22–23; Yoav Limor, “Schindler’s List: The Version that Spielberg Did Not Know,” Ma’ariv, December 28, 1993, 4–5.
84. Honan, “Emilie Schindler,” 22–23.
85. Ibid., 25; Christoph Stopka, “Ich bin Frau Schindler,” Bunte (1994), 23.
86. Katherine Ellison, Times-Picayune (New Orleans), February 6, 1994, A16.
87. Stopka, “Ich bin Frau Schindler,” 24.
88. Ibid., 23–24.
89. Emilie Schindler, Where Light and Shadow Meet, trans. Dolores M. Koch (New York: W. W. Norton, 1997), 143.
90. Ibid., 142.
91. Ibid., 144–145.
92. Ibid., 144.
93. Ibid., 146–147.
94. Ibid., 147–151.
95. Ibid., 155–158.
96. “Memorial Service to Oskar Schindler,” August 3, 1993, Yad Vashem Archives, 2 pages. Later, a much more elegant monument was erected to Oskar in a park just across the street from his boyhood home; Oskar Schindler: Retter und Lebemann, ZDF Mainz, 1994.
97. Staehr and Staehr, interviews, October 22, 2000, and October 31-November 1, 2003.
98. Ibid.
99. Ibid.
100. Claudia Keller and Stefan Braun, interview by the author, Berlin, Germany, January 13, 2000, and November 1, 2003; Staehr and Staehr, interviews, October 22, 1999, and October 31-November 1, 2003.
101. Staehr and Staehr, interviews, October 22, 2000, and October 31-November 1, 2003; Claudia Keller and Stefan Braun, Schindlers Koffer: Berichte aus dem Leben eines Lebensretters (Stuttgart: Stuttgarter Zeitung, 1999), 1–77.
102. Ingrid Eißele, “Schindlers Liste gehört mir,” Stern 43 (1999): 19; Jürgen Dahlkamp, Der Spiegel 43 (1999): 116–117; Staehr and Staehr, interviews, October 22, 2000, and October 31-November 1, 2003.
103. Staehr and Staehr, interviews, October 22, 1999, and October 31-November 1, 2003.
104. Ibid.
105. Ibid.; Keller and Braun, interview, November 1, 2003.
106. Landgericht Stuttgart Beschluß, “In dem Verfahren, Emilie Schindler gegen Christian Staehr und Fa. Stuttgarter Verlagsgesellschaft Eberle GmbH & Co.,” November 11, 1999, 3 pages, Ami Staehr Collection, Stuttgart, Germany; “Dr. Jur. Tilo. Bodendorf to Christian Staehr,” December 21, 1999, 2 pages, Ami Staehr Collection; “Witwe von Oskar Schindler klagt zum zweiten Mai-Streit um Ansprüche aus Urheberrecht,” April 25, 2001, Stuttgarter Zeitung, http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de, 1 page.
107. “Witwe von Oskar Schindler klagt zum zweiten Mai-Streit um Ansprüche aus Urheberrecht,” 1–2; “Witwe hat wenig Aussicht auf Schadenersatz-Richter: Zeitung hat nicht schuldhaft gehandelt,” April 27, 2004, 1–2, http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de; “Streit und Schindlers Koffer beigelegt: Witwe soll 25,000 Mark erhalten,” Frankfurter Allge-meine Zeitung, June 27, 2001, 9; Wulf Reimer, “Vergleich für Schindlers Koffer,” Süd-deutsche Zeitung, April 28, 2001, 12.
108. “David M. Crowe to Dr. Uwe Vorkötter,” May 7, 2001; “Dr. Uwe Vorkötter to David M. Crowe,” May 8, 1002; “Witwe hat wenig Aussicht auf Schadenersatz,” Sttut-garter Zeitung, April 27, 2001, 2; Elias Zviklich, interview by the author, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 21, 2001; “Streit um Schindlers Koffer beigelegt,” 9; “Einigung über Nach-laß- Dokumente,” Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 20, 2001, 20; “Streit um Schindlers Koffer beigelegt,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 27, 2001, 9.
109. Monika Caro, Ilse Chwat, and Ilse Wartensleben, interview by the author, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 18, 2001.
110. Emilie Schindler, interview by the author, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 22, 2001.
111. Dr. Alfredo May, interview by the author, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 24, 2001.
112. Linda Diebel, “A Tale of Intrigue, Feuds, Hollywood Tycoons, Widow’s Book Accuses Oskar Schindler of Being a ‘Coward.’ ‘It Pains Me to See Emilie So Alone But That Is How Life Goes’: The Complex Friendship of an Author and Schindler’s Widow,” Toronto Star, July 8, 2001, NEO1.
113. Uta Rasche, “Schindlers lange Schatten: Das Leben seiner Frau blieb im Dunkeln,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 28, 1999, 67; “Die Frau in Schindlers Schatten,” Welt am Sonntag, October 15, 2000, 36; “Die Stimme Emilie Schindlers,” November 13, 2003, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 59.
114. Diebel, “A Tale of Intrigue, Feuds, Hollywood Tycoons,” NEO1.
115. Ibid.
116. Ibid.
117. Caro, Chwat, and Wartensleben, interview, May 18, 2001.
118. Diebel, “A Tale of Intrigue, Feuds, Hollywood Tycoons,” NEO1; Caro, Chwat, and Wartensleben, interview, May 18, 2001.
119. Diebel, “A Tale of Intrigue, Feuds, Hollywood Tycoons,” NEO1; Rosenberg, Ich, Emilie Schindler, 217–218.
120. Diebel, “A Tale of Intrigue, Feuds, Hollywood Tycoons,” NEO1.
121. Rosenberg, Ich, Oskar Schindler, 221–222; Gernot Wolfram, “Reise zum späten Ruhm,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 13, 2001, 11.
122. Rosenberg, Ich, Emilie Schindler, 222–226; “Bavaria Offers Retirement Home to Schindler’s Widow, Who Says She Wants to Return to Germany,” July 16, 2001, Associated Press, Lexus Nexus, 1 page.
123. Derek Scully, “The Forgotten Schindler,” Irish Times, July 28, 2001, 61; Kate Connolly, “Schindler’s Widow Left to Die in Bitterness and Poverty,” Observer (London), July 29, 2001, 3.
124. Dr. Eva Habel, interview by the author, Munich, Germany, October 27, 2003.
125. “Francisco Wichter to David M. Crowe,” Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 27, 2001, 7 pages.
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