Emilie Schindler with
Erika Rosenberg
Where Light and Shadow Meet
A Memoir
Translated by Dolores M. Koch
The woman who married Oskar Schindler tells the true story of their life together, what they did
to save the Jews in their factories, and how this led
to "Schindler's list."
Emilie Schindler does not consider herself or her husband
to have been heroes. As she writes in this moving memoir,
"We only did what we had to." Born in Bohemia, she married
Oskar Schindler in 1928, and moved from her beloved
countryside to the city. It soon became clear that her marriage would
have both its passions and its betrayals. Yet, she stayed with
Oskar despite his infidelities, through his growing involvement
with the Nazis, working for counterintelligence with him. She
first, then he later, came to realize the costs of the Nazi
takeover and became witnesses to its terrors. Their inward
allegiance changed even as they needed to maintain patriotic
appearances and close affiliations with the Nazis in power.
At their two factories, saving the Jews became
paramount. Emilie risked imprisonment for her nursing of their sick
Jewish factory workers and her activities in the black market
to feed them. Her stubbornness kept her fighting for food,
even daring to ask a wealthy mill owner's wife to give them grain
to feed her starving workers.
This is the story of a woman's daily acts of bravery
during Hitler's reign and how it mattered.
Emilie Schindler lives in Argentina.
1997 / hardcover / ISBN 0-393-04123-9 /
Photographs, maps / 144 pages / Memoir /Holocaust
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