List-maker Schindler’s secretary dies at age 107: Mimi Reinhardt helped save hundreds of Jews during World War II

The woman who compiled Oscar Schindler’s lists and helped save hundreds of Jews during World War II during the Holocaust died at the age of 107.

Mimi Reinhardt was Schindler’s secretary and compiled lists of Jewish workers in the Polish city of Krakow to work in the factory of their German industrial boss.

It was a very risky undertaking, but it likely saved some 1,300 Jewish workers from deportation and almost certain death in Nazi concentration camps.

Reinhardt’s granddaughter Nina wrote in a letter to her relatives: “My grandmother, so precious and unique, died at the age of 107. rest in peace”.

The Guardian reports that after the war ended, Reinhardt lived in New York until he moved to Israel in 2007 to live with his son. You have spent the last few years in a nursing home north of Tel Aviv.

When Schindler died in 1974, Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum called him a “righteous among the nations,” a tribute to non-Jews seeking to save Jews from Nazi extermination. He is buried on the Mount of Olives, outside Jerusalem.

Her brave and selfless story is told in Thomas Kennelly’s 1982 bestseller. Schindler’s Ark And 1993 Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg for screenplay; Schindler’s List.