A collection of ephemera.
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Comprises: a 1938 "Sudetenland Medal" having belonged to Oskar Schindler (the 1 October 1938 Commemorative Medal, which was awarded to all German officials and Wehrmacht and SS members who marched into Sudetenland, as well as to military personnel participating in the occupation of the remnants of Czechoslovakia in 1939); a Longines wrist watch having belonged to Oskar Schindler; a compass (manufactured by Bézard/Gotthilf Lufft) said to have been used by Oskar Schindler and his wife Emilie whilst fleeing Russian troops and heading for American occupied territory in 1945; a Parker fountain pen, and another in a Parker box, with the inscription by Emilie Schindler's biographer Erika Rosenberg: "Nachlaß Oskar Schindler 1957 in Buenos Aires bei Emilie hinterlassen. Oskar Schindler 1908-1974. Erika Rosenberg Weihnachten 2007" ("From the estate of Oskar Schindler, left with Emilie Schindler in Buenos Aires in 1957. Oskar Schindler 1908-1974. Erika Rosenberg, Christmas 2007"); a wooden business card belonging to Oskar Schindler, giving his address as Frankfurt am Main, where he moved in 1957. - Schindler moved to West Germany after the War; after receiving a partial reimbursement for his wartime expenses, he and his wife moved to Argentina, where they took up farming. When he went bankrupt in 1958, Schindler left his wife and returned to Germany, where he failed at several business ventures and relied on financial support from "Schindlerjuden" ("Schindler Jews") - the people whose lives he had saved during the war. He was named "Righteous Among the Nations" by the Israeli government in 1963 and is buried in Jerusalem on Mount Zion, the only member of the Nazi Party to be honoured in this way. - Provenance: From the estate of Emilie Schindler and thence by descent.