Mrs. Reinhardt, then known as Carmen Whitman, typed in the names of more than 1,000 Jews – including her own and two friends – to create what became known as the “Schindler’s List.” She called herself “typist», Or a typist. “The only practical thing in my life that I learned was shorthand, but I never learned to type,” Ms. Reinhardt told the New York Times in 2007. “I only typed with two fingers.” As a result, she and more than 1,000 other Jews were saved from near-certain extinction in the Nazi death camps of World War II. Mrs. Reinhardt, who later became Schindler’s secretary, died in Israel at the age of 107. Israeli and European news agencies reported her death, citing a statement from her granddaughter on April 8. The exact date, place and cause of Mrs Reinhard’s death were not immediately known. He has lived near Tel Aviv since 2007. Schindler, a German living in what was then Czechoslovakia, was a member of the Nazi Party. However, he mocked and sometimes threatened the German military authorities in his efforts to protect his Jewish workers. In 1944, as the Russian Red Army moved toward Krakow, the Germans retreated and sent many Jewish prisoners to the nearby Plaszow concentration camp – where Mrs. Reinhard was being held – to die in Auschwitz. Schindler convinced German officials that the Jewish workers at the enamel factory near Krakow should be transferred to another concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, where they were needed to produce ammunition. Mrs. Reinhardt was among those who boarded the train for the voyage in October 1944. “It was a gamble for us,” he told Israel’s Ha’aretz newspaper in 2007. “Going with Schindler was not a guarantee of anything. We did not think that Schindler would really be able to save us. He just took us to a different camp. Who knew? “We only got a chance because we believed in Schindler.” On the way to Czechoslovakia, Ms. Reinhardt’s train bypassed Auschwitz, where they were detained for two weeks. He described the scene as “straight from Dante’s Hell.” “We were sure we were done for it.” Schindler threatened to accuse German officers of “undermining” the war effort if they did not allow his Jewish workers to leave Auschwitz. In Czechoslovakia, Schindler submitted false reports from his armaments factory to confuse Nazi officials. The factory produced only one ammunition wagon before the war ended in May 1945 and the camp was liberated. An estimated 1,100 Jewish lives were saved. Schindler died in misery and obscurity in 1974. Australian author Thomas Kennelly brought his story to the public in the 1982 novel The Schindler’s List (or “Schindler’s Ark” outside the United States). The book was followed by Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film “Schindler’s List”, which Mrs. Reinhardt avoided seeing for several years. “It was still fresh in my mind,” he told Ha’aretz. “I just could not. I did not want to experience it again. “ The same year that Spielberg’s film was released, Schindler and his wife, Emily, were named “Righteous Among the Nations” by Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Center. “He was not an angel,” Ms Reinhardt said of Schindler. “We knew he was an SS man. was a member of the highest ranks. They went out for a drink together at night, but apparently he could not bear to see what they did to us. “I saw a man who risked his life all the time for what he did.” Carmen Koppel was born on January 15, 1915, in Vienna, then the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which disintegrated at the end of World War I in 1918. Little can be learned about her early life, other than that she studied languages ​​and literature at the University of Vienna. Until 1936, she was married and living in Krakow. She and her husband had a son in 1939 and later smuggled him to Hungary to live with relatives during the war. She and her husband were arrested and confined to the Jewish ghetto in Krakow. Her husband was killed trying to escape. Ms Reinhard was later placed in the Plaszow concentration camp. After the war, she reunited with her son, lived in Morocco for several years, remarried and had a daughter. He moved to New York in 1957 and lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for 50 years. Maintain relationships with othersSchindler Jews“, Or Jews rescued by Schindler, but never told strangers about her previous life. Her daughter, Lucienne Reinhard, died in 2000. Her second husband, Albert Reinhard, died in 2002. Five years later, as Mrs. Reinhard was planning to move to Israel, where her son was a sociology teacher, they interviewed members of a Jewish Resettlement Service for its experiences in the war. Only then was her connection to Schindler revealed. Survivors include her son, Sasha Weitman, and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. More than twelve years after the end of World War II, Mrs. Reinhardt was walking down a street in Vienna with her aunt when she heard someone shouting her former name, Carmen Whitman. It was Schindler sitting in a cafe. “She recognized me,” Ms Reinhard later recalled. “He sat in the cafe with other Jews who had worked for him. “My aunt asked me angrily how I knew this man.”