Mimi Reinhardt, who worked as Schindler’s secretary, was responsible for compiling lists of Jewish workers from the ghetto in the Polish city of Krakow who were recruited to work in his factory, saving them from deportation to Nazi death camps. “My grandmother, so dear and so unique, died at the age of 107. “Rest in peace,” Reinhard’s granddaughter Nina wrote in a message to relatives. Reinhard, of Austrian descent, who was also Jewish, was recruited by Schindler himself and worked for him until 1945. After World War II, she moved to New York before deciding to move to Israel in 2007 to meet her only son, Sasha Weitman, who was then a professor of sociology at Tel Aviv University. “I feel at home,” he told reporters as he landed in the country. Schindler, who died in 1974, was named by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Israel as a member of the “Righteous Among the Nations”, a tribute to non-Jews who tried to save Jews from Nazi extermination. Reinhardt’s lists for him helped save some 1,300 people who were in grave danger. His initiative referred to the 1982 best-selling novel The Schindler’s Ark and the award-winning Steven Spielberg film adaptation of Schindler’s List. Reinhardt, who spent her last years in a nursing home north of Tel Aviv, had said she once met Spielberg, but had difficulty watching the film. Israeli photographer Gideon Markowicz, who met Reinhardt as part of a work dedicated to Holocaust survivors, described her as an active woman. “She took part in the activities of the nursing home and was a bridge champion. “He surfed the internet and watched the stock market,” he said.
