Mimi Reinhardt Obituary

Mimi Reinhardt,  Oskar Schindler’s secretary who typed out the list of Jews he saved from Nazi Germany, died in Israel at the age of 107.

Sasha Weitman, Reinhardt’s son, verified that she died early Friday, April 8, and was laid to rest on Sunday in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv.

She was one of 1,200 Jews spared by German businessman Oskar Schindler, who bribed Nazi officials to allow him to keep them as factory workers. Director Steven Spielberg turned the story into the renowned 1993 film “Schindler’s List.”

Carmen Koppel was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1915, and moved to Krakow, Poland, before World War II broke out. She was imprisoned after Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939.

I. She was imprisoned in the Krakow ghetto after Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, before being deported to the neighbouring Plaszow detention camp in 1942.

Reinhardt’s shorthand skills landed her a job in the camp’s administrative office, where she was assigned to type out the handwritten list of Jews to be moved to Schindler’s ammunition factory two years later.

She moved to the United States after the war and stayed there until 2007 when she immigrated to Israel at the age of 92.