Schindler

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Schindler

• A virtual field trip to the West Baton Rouge
  Parish Museum

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A Virtual Field Trip

• Located at the West Baton Rouge Parish Museum
• 845 N. JeffersonPort Allen, Louisiana 70767

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The West Baton Rouge Museum Presents Schindler

• The exhibition was organized and circulated by
  the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
• This exhibit was at the museum July 20th August
  25th, 2005.

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Many people suffered during World War II.
Few people were able to aid the Jews in escaping
the Holocaust. After the Nazis invaded Poland,
labor camps were harsh and most Jews did not
survive.
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Schindler came to the aid of many people.
Many people suffered at the hands of the Nazis.
Oscar Schindler saved lots of people from this
horrible fate.
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Oscar Schindler was a catholic man of industry.
After the Nazis invaded Poland, Schindler
overtook two factories which manufactured enamel
kitchenware. The factories had originally been
Jewish-owned.
Schindlers factory in the Zablocie district of
Kracow was used to save 1,098 Jews from the
Plaszow labor camp. Work in Schindlers factories
would later save Jews from other camps such as
Aushwitz-Birkenau.
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Europe during Schindlers time
Schindler moved his kitchenware factory to
Czechoslovakia in 1944 and began manufacturing
arms. When he did this, he relocated Jewish
workers from several concentration camps,
virtually saving their lives.
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POW Camps in West Baton Rouge Parish

• There were many German prisoners of war interned
  at Port Allen Louisiana during World War II.
• The WBR museum highlights the POW experience
  during its exhibition of Schindler.

Those German and Italian POWs held in over 500
camps across the U.S. were sent out to harvest
and process crops, build roads and waterways,
fell trees, roof barns, etc. In the process, they
formed significant, often decades long
friendships with the enemy and under went
considerable changes as individuals and as a
groupthus fundamentally influencing post-war
German values and institutions, as well as
American-German relations. Many even emigrated to
the U.S. after the war.
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Life in a WBR POW Camp
US soldiers kept careful watch over prisoners of
war.
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Letters written by WBR residents about the POW
camps.
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Camps Close to Home
This camp was located where the WBR fairgrounds
now stand.
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Prisoners Belongings
The prisoners owned Nazi Flags and Armbands
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POW Uniforms
Many POWs wore uniforms when working on the
fields.
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Prisoners of war were used as plantation labor.
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Museum staff used photos and artifacts donated by
local residents.
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Some artifacts from sub-camp number seven in Port
Allen, LA
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For more information

• Visit the Holocaust Museum website at
  http//www.ushmm.org

Dedication of the US Holocaust Museum