Schindler's List | Teaching Key Figures

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

Abraham Bankier - This person manages a defunct enamelware business and is one of several workers boarded onto a cattle car bound for a labor camp.

Josef Bau - This person is an artist from Kraków who marries a Jewish person while working at the Plaszow camp.

Rebecca Bau - See Rebecca Tannenbaum

Oswald Bosko - This character is a German police Wachmeister, or sergeant, sympathetic to the Jews, who is eventually shot and killed for treason.

Wilek Chilowicz - The chief of the Jewish camp police, this character enjoys using power, but...
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