a List from Schindler page 1

a List from Schindler page 1 by ric Gustafson


It is Autumn 1943 and a tall young man comes out of a Cracow Poland apartment building. He is wearing a double breasted dinner jacket with a gold on black enamel swastika in the lapel. He gets into an Adler limousine. From Straszewskiego Street, the car moved underneath the Wawel Castle where Hans Frank ruled the Government General of Poland. The car drove over the Podgorze Bridge and then along trolley tracks in the former Jewish Ghetto. Oskar Schindler began to chain smoke. Soon, he noticed the entrance to Labor Camp Plaszow which was a barracks town of 20,000 Jews.
The car drove past the Commandant's stables and then stopped 100 meters from the Commandant's villa. The villa was square built with an attic. Attached was a terraced patio with a balcony. An SS sergeant let him in. He had come for a party hosted by the camp's Commandant Amon Goeth.


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