Victoria Klonowska Character Analysis

Victoria Klonowska is Oskar Schindler’s attractive, blonde Polish secretary and lover. A hard-headed and efficient Polish nationalist, she often works on Schindler’s behalf in order to get him released from SS prison. From the beginning, Klonowska is influential, telling Oskar of where he can go to get a drink and meet like-minded people and helping to handle his administrative affairs. Though Schindler already has a wife, Emilie, and other women in his life, like his mistress Ingrid, Klonowska never seems jealous. Oskar frequently shows his gratitude for Klonowska’s work, at one point getting her a poodle for Christmas (something that’s very difficult to acquire on the black market). When Schindler moves his operations to Brinnlitz, Klonowska stays behind in Cracow, again apparently with no hard feelings. Klonowska is one of Schindler’s many talented allies who helped him out of hard situations and ran his business’s day-to-day operations.