Mimi Reinhardt
Mimi Reinhardt | |
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Born | Carmen Koppel 15 January 1915 |
Died | 8 April 2022 | (aged 107)
Alma mater | University of Vienna |
Occupation | Secretary |
Known for | Author of Schindler's list |
Children | 2 |
Mimi Reinhardt (born Carmen Koppel; known as Carmen Weitmann c. 1936–c. 1950; 15 January 1915 – 8 April 2022) was an
Early years
Carmen Koppel was born to Emil and Frieda Koppel in Wiener Neustadt, Austria-Hungary.[3] She learned shorthand to take notes better during her language studies at the University of Vienna. In Vienna, Austria, she met her future husband, whom she followed from Austria to Kraków, Poland, in 1936. Their son, Sascha Weitmann, was born there in June 1939.[4]
Oskar Schindler
Carmen Weitmann and her husband managed to evacuate their son and her grandmother to
The train that was supposed to take the Jewish workers on the list from Plaszow to Brünnlitz in the fall of 1944 was diverted to
Later years and death
After the war, Weitmann found her son in Hungary and moved with him to Tangier International Zone, Morocco. There she met and married her second husband, a hotel manager surnamed Reinhardt. In 1957, the family moved to the United States and lived in New York.[6] She had a second child, a daughter, with her second husband, but her daughter died of an illness at the age of 49. In 2007, at age 92, Reinhardt moved to Herzliya, Israel, to live with her son, Sacha Weitman, who was then a professor of sociology at Tel Aviv University.[7][1] She died there in 2022, at age 107, in a retirement home.[8]
References
- ^ a b "Oskar Schindler's Jewish secretary, who drew up his worker lists, dies at age 107". timesofisrael.com. 8 April 2022. Archived from the original on 8 April 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
- ^ "Schindler's Secretary Mimi Reinhardt Dies Aged 107". www.i24news.tv. 8 April 2022. Archived from the original on 9 April 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
- ^ Sulzgruber, Werner. "Follow the Codes – ab- und zugewandt". zeitgeschichte-wn.at (in German). Archived from the original on 8 April 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
- ^ a b c Schwartz, Adi (20 December 2007). "1944: Die Frau, die Schindlers Liste schrieb". Welt Online (in German). Hamburg. Archived from the original on 25 September 2013. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
- ^ AFP. "Oskar Schindler's Jewish secretary, who drew up his worker lists, dies at age 107". www.timesofisrael.com. Archived from the original on 10 April 2022. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
- ^ Schmitz, Thorsten (12 January 2008). "Mimi Reinhardt im Porträt: Die Frau, die Schindlers Liste schrieb". hagalil.com (in German). hagalil.com. Archived from the original on 8 April 2022. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
- ^ Yael Branovsky and AFP (4 December 2007). "Schindler's secretary moves to Israel at 92". Ynetnews. Archived from the original on 9 April 2022. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
- t-online.de (in German). 8 April 2022. Archivedfrom the original on 9 April 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2022.