1. Mietek Pemper was born into a Jewish family in Krakow, Poland on 24 March 1920 to Jakub and Regina Mietek Pemper.
21 Facts About Mietek Pemper
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From early childhood, Mietek Pemper was bilingual in Polish and German.
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Mietek Pemper studied law at Jagiellonian University and business administration at the Krakow University of Economics simultaneously.
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Mietek Pemper was 19 years old when Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939.
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Mietek Pemper stayed at home as much as possible in protest against the badges.
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Mietek Pemper acted as a German-Polish interpreter for the Krakow Ghetto residents and typed up radio broadcasts from the BBC.
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Mietek Pemper typed his first letter to Oskar Schindler in March 1943, without the knowledge that Schindler had sympathies for his Jewish workers.
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Mietek Pemper personally alerted Schindler to the plans and persuaded him to switch production from enamelware to anti-tank grenades to save Schindler's workers.
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Mietek Pemper helped develop the now famous "Schindler's List" to save as many Jewish workers as possible.
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Those on the list, including Mietek Pemper himself, were transferred to Schindler's new factory located in Brnenec, Czechoslovakia, in October 1944.
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Mietek Pemper testified against Goth at his September 1946 trial in Krakow following the end of the war.
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Mietek Pemper moved to the city of Augsburg, Bavaria, in 1958 and became a German citizen.
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Mietek Pemper worked as a management consultant and an intercultural activist, specifically focusing on Jewish-Christian relations and reconciliation.
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Mietek Pemper kept close contact with Oskar Schindler until Schindler's death in 1974.
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Mietek Pemper served as a consultant for Steven Spielberg's 1993 film, Schindler's List.
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However, Mietek Pemper dismissed his diminished role in the film, saying his accomplishment was not the list that was compiled and typed, but "the multifarious acts of resistance that, like tiny stones being placed into a mosaic one by one, had made the whole process possible," according to The Daily Telegraph.
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Mietek Pemper himself was portrayed by actor Grzegorz Kwas in the film.
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Mietek Pemper's adopted city of Augsburg awarded him a civic medal in 2003.
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Mietek Pemper submitted to an in-depth film interview in Vienna in June 2005 for UK company Gigatel Cyf.
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Mietek Pemper died in Augsburg, Germany on 7 June 2011, at the age of 91.
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Mietek Pemper was buried in Augsburg's Jewish cemetery and municipal flags were lowered to half-staff in his honour.