Mimi Reinhardt
Austrian Jewish secretary
Mimi Reinhardt (born Carmen Koppel; known as Carmen Weitmann c. 1936 – c. 1950; 15 January 1915 – 8 April 2022) was an Austrian Jewish secretary. She worked for Oskar Schindler and typed his list of Jewish workers to recruit for his factory.
Early years
Carmen Koppel was born to Emil and Frieda Koppel in Wiener Neustadt, Austria-Hungary. 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.
Oskar Schindler
Carmen Weitmann and her husband managed to evacuate their son and her grandmother to Hungary during the Nazi occupation of Poland. She and her husband were arrested; he was shot at the gate of the Kraków ghetto while trying to escape. At the time, she was 30 years old. After the liquidation of the ghetto, she was transported with other Jews to the Plaszow camp.
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