Schindler’s List

Schindler’s List

by

Thomas Keneally

Ingrid is Oskar Schindler’s Sudeten German mistress. They live together, and some even assume that she’s his wife. Like Klonowska, Ingrid seems to have few hard feelings about Schindler’s many relationships with other women. She helps run things behind the scenes and at one point provides a care package for him while he’s in prison.

Ingrid Quotes in Schindler’s List

The Schindler’s List quotes below are all either spoken by Ingrid or refer to Ingrid. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Virtue and Selflessness Theme Icon
).
Chapter 5 Quotes

Victoria Klonowska, a Polish secretary, was the beauty of Oskar’s front office, and he immediately began a long affair with her. Ingrid, his German mistress, must have known, as surely as Emilie Schindler knew about Ingrid. For Oskar would never be a surreptitious lover. He had a childlike sexual frankness.

Related Characters: Oskar Schindler, Emilie Schindler, Victoria Klonowska, Ingrid
Page Number: 62
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 15 Quotes

His eyes slewed up Krakusa to the scarlet child. They were doing it within half a block of her; they hadn’t waited for her column to turn out of sight into Józefińska. Schindler could not have explained at first how that compounded the murders on the sidewalk. Yet somehow it proved, in a way no one could ignore, their serious intent. While the scarlet child stopped in her column and turned to watch, they shot the woman in the neck, and one of them, when the boy slid down the wall whimpering, jammed a boot down on his head as if to hold it still and put the barrel against the back of the neck—the recommended SS stance—and fired.

Related Characters: Oskar Schindler, Ingrid, Genia
Related Symbols: The Color Red
Page Number: 133
Explanation and Analysis:
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Ingrid Quotes in Schindler’s List

The Schindler’s List quotes below are all either spoken by Ingrid or refer to Ingrid. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Virtue and Selflessness Theme Icon
).
Chapter 5 Quotes

Victoria Klonowska, a Polish secretary, was the beauty of Oskar’s front office, and he immediately began a long affair with her. Ingrid, his German mistress, must have known, as surely as Emilie Schindler knew about Ingrid. For Oskar would never be a surreptitious lover. He had a childlike sexual frankness.

Related Characters: Oskar Schindler, Emilie Schindler, Victoria Klonowska, Ingrid
Page Number: 62
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 15 Quotes

His eyes slewed up Krakusa to the scarlet child. They were doing it within half a block of her; they hadn’t waited for her column to turn out of sight into Józefińska. Schindler could not have explained at first how that compounded the murders on the sidewalk. Yet somehow it proved, in a way no one could ignore, their serious intent. While the scarlet child stopped in her column and turned to watch, they shot the woman in the neck, and one of them, when the boy slid down the wall whimpering, jammed a boot down on his head as if to hold it still and put the barrel against the back of the neck—the recommended SS stance—and fired.

Related Characters: Oskar Schindler, Ingrid, Genia
Related Symbols: The Color Red
Page Number: 133
Explanation and Analysis: