Schindler’s List

Schindler’s List

by

Thomas Keneally

– Emalia was Oskar Schindler’s enamelware factory where he employed Jewish workers as a means of protecting them. Emalia became a part of the Płaszów concentration camp after the Jewish ghetto in Cracow was liquidated. Schindler continued to protect the Jewish prisoners and treat them humanely, eventually evacuating them to Brinnlitz.

Emalia Quotes in Schindler’s List

The Schindler’s List quotes below are all either spoken by Emalia or refer to Emalia. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 11 Quotes

Then, in the butt end of 1941, Oskar found himself under arrest. Someone—one of the Polish shipping clerks, one of the German technicians in the munitions section, you couldn’t tell—had denounced him, had gone to Pomorska Street and given information. Two plainclothes Gestapo men drove up Lipowa Street one morning and blocked the entrance with their Mercedes as if they intended to bring all commerce at Emalia to an end.

Related Characters: Oskar Schindler
Page Number: 103
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Chapter 23 Quotes

When Levartov and his wife came to the Emalia factory subcamp in the summer of ’43, he had to suffer what at first he believed to be Schindler’s little religious witticisms. On Friday afternoons, in the munitions hall of DEF where Levartov operated a lathe, Schindler would say, “You shouldn’t be here, Rabbi. You should be preparing for Shabbat.” But when Oskar slipped him a bottle of wine for use in the ceremonies, Levartov knew that the Herr Direktor was not joking. Before dusk on Fridays, the rabbi would be dismissed from his workbench and would go to his barracks behind the wire in the backyard of DEF. There, under the strings of sourly drying laundry, he would recite Kiddush over a cup of wine among the roof-high tiers of bunks. Under, of course, the shadow of an SS watchtower.

Related Characters: Oskar Schindler, Amon Goeth, Menasha Levartov
Page Number: 211
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Chapter 30 Quotes

The orders, labeled OKH (Army High Command), already sat on Oskar’s desk. Because of the war situation, the Director of Armaments told Oskar, KL Płaszów and therefore the Emalia camp were to be disbanded. Prisoners from Emalia would be sent to Płaszów, awaiting relocation. Oskar himself was to fold his Zablocie operation as quickly as possible, retaining on the premises only those technicians necessary for dismantling the plant. For further instructions, he should apply to the Evacuation Board, OKH, Berlin.

Related Characters: Oskar Schindler
Page Number: 275
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Chapter 31 Quotes

Oskar later estimated that he spent 100,000 RM.—nearly $40,000—to grease the transfer to Brinnlitz. Few of his survivors would ever find the figure unlikely, though there were those who shook their heads and said, “No, more! It would have to have been more than that.”

Related Characters: Oskar Schindler, Colonel Erich Lange , Sussmuth
Page Number: 289
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Chapter 32 Quotes

Three or four miles out into the hills, following a rail siding, they came to the industrial hamlet of Brinnlitz, and saw ahead in thin morning light the solid bulk of the Hoffman annex transformed into Arbeitslager (Labor Camp) Brinnlitz, with watchtowers, a wire fence encircling it, a guard barracks inside the wire, and beyond that the gate to the factory and the prisoners’ dormitories.

As they marched in through the outer gate, Oskar appeared from the factory courtyard, wearing a Tyrolean hat.

Related Characters: Oskar Schindler
Page Number: 302
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Chapter 35 Quotes

For the factory produced nothing. “Not a shell,” Brinnlitz prisoners will still say, shaking their heads. Not one 45mm shell manufactured there could be used, not one rocket casing.

Related Characters: Oskar Schindler
Page Number: 341
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Emalia Term Timeline in Schindler’s List

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Prologue
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...tells her about his enamelware factory, which Helen has heard of—it’s referred to as “Schindler’s Emalia.” She mentions her sister in a camp kitchen and offers Schindler some money that she’s... (full context)
Chapter 12
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On April 28, 1942, Schindler’s 34th birthday, he has a boisterous celebration, which starts at Emalia. He brings cakes and cigarettes into the factory for workers. He is so spirited that... (full context)
Chapter 14
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...manager, doesn’t show up at the office. Schindler later hears that he and several other Emalia workers were marched down to a depot in Prokocim. (full context)
Chapter 22
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...for six barracks to house up to 1,200 people. One morning on his way to Emalia, he is stopped by Goeth in a limousine, who asks why Garde is being escorted... (full context)
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...job, Garde tries to hide his deformed hand until, at last, he is transferred to Emalia for good. (full context)
Chapter 23
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Prisoners begin competing to get their own space in Emalia. Dolek Horowitz is a purchasing officer in the camp who believes he has no chance... (full context)
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Compared to Płaszów, the Emalia camp is peaceful, with no permanent guards. The rotating groups of SS and Ukrainians on... (full context)
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...other camp prisoners, and none die of hunger, beatings, or overwork. Long after the war, Emalia’s residents will remember it as a paradise. (full context)
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...when she can. She hears about Schindler and decides she must get her parents into Emalia. (full context)
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...a month her parents are part of a new group of 30 workers sent to Emalia. (full context)
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...Płaszów to get Rabbi Menasha Levartov (who is posing as a metalworker) sent over to Emalia. Stern in particular had been one of his admirers. He tells Schindler about how, because... (full context)
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...whole matter to Schindler, who teases him: “Why the long story? There’s always room at Emalia for someone who can turn out a hinge in less than a minute.” Levartov and... (full context)
Chapter 24
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Senior officers from the main camp visited every subcamp at some point, and Emalia is no exception. No one agrees which particular officers visited Schindler, but some former prisoners,... (full context)
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...partial—in one case, an engineer who stayed in Schindler’s barracks but who worked just outside Emalia in a radiator factory is publicly hanged to set an example. (full context)
Chapter 25
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...Dr. Sopp. He catches a woman with dubious Aryan papers whose husband has invested in Emalia and blackmails Schindler for 50,000 złotys. As always, Schindler remains inexact with money and doesn’t... (full context)
Chapter 26
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...sex remain desperate and infrequent between prisoners, although the conditions are a little better at Emalia. Bau and Rebecca begin to see each other. (full context)
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...more difficult. The camp is reclassified as a concentration camp, and even subcamps like Schindler’s Emalia are placed under the authority of General Oswald Pohl in Oranienburg. Schindler’s contacts in local... (full context)
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During his meeting with a personnel officer who has the Emalia plans, Schindler puts forward his request that his work force be allowed to remain permanently.... (full context)
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...by Schindler’s connections and says he’s told the truth: there are no plans to dismantle Emalia, but the situation of Jews, even skilled workers, is never safe. Schindler says he understands... (full context)
Chapter 30
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Schindler receives orders from Army High Command that Płaszów (and therefore the Emalia subcamp) will be disbanded. His prisoners will be sent to Płaszów to await relocation. Schindler... (full context)
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The prisoners of Emalia despair. Still, the rumor spreads that Schindler is working on a list. Schindler first raises... (full context)
Chapter 31
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...why he did it.” By fall of 1944, Schindler is making plans to protect his Emalia prisoners with a sense of dogged determination. (full context)
Chapter 32
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Goldberg crosses some Emalia people off the list, and at least one of them will blame Schindler for it.... (full context)
Chapter 33
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As with Emalia, Schindler equips his Brinnlitz camp at his own expense. Among his expenses are all the... (full context)