October 9, 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Oskar Schindler (1908–1974). Until May 1945, the entrepreneur employed around 1,200 Jews in his factories in Krakow and finally in Brünnlitz, saving them from extermination by the Nazi state. It was not until 1965 that Schindler was honored in Germany with the Federal Order of Merit; the state of Hesse supported him with an honorary salary from 1967. It was not until Thomas Keneally’s novel Schindler’s Ark, published in 1983, and above all the 1993 film adaptation by Steven Spielberg, that his story and his humanitarian achievements were recognized worldwide. To mark the anniversary of his death, the state of Hesse is commemorating this extraordinary man with a free screening of SCHINDLER’S LIST. Christoph Degen, State Secretary in the Hessian Ministry for Science and Research, Art and Culture, will give a welcoming address before the film. Another guest will be Avi Granot, whose father Hermann Kornhauser was rescued by Oskar Schindler.
Supported by the State of Hesse 
US 1993. D: Steven Spielberg.