Oskar Schindler's factory where the German manufacturer employed Jews and saved over 1,000 of their lives. The factory is to become a museum. (Photo by Christian Schroth/ullstein bild via Getty Images) JERUSALEM (AP) - Mimi Reinhard, a secretary in Oskar Schindler's office who typed up the list of Jews he saved from extermination by Nazi Germany, has died in Israel at the age of 107.Reinhard died on Thursday and was laid to rest Sunday in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv.She was one of 1,200 Jews saved by German businessman Schindler after he bribed Nazi authorities to let him keep them as workers in his factories.
The account was made into the acclaimed 1993 film "Schindler's List" by director Steven Spielberg.Reinhard was born Carmen Koppel in Vienna, Austria, in 1915, and moved to Krakow, Poland, before the outbreak of World War II.
After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, she was confined to the Krakow ghetto before being sent to the Plaszow concentration camp in 1942.Reinhard's knowledge of shorthand got her work in the camp’s administrative office, where, two years later, she was ordered to type up the handwritten list of Jews that were to be transferred to Schindler's ammunition factory."I didn’t know it was such an important thing, that list," she told an interviewer with Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, in 2008. "First of all, I got the list of those who were with Schindler already in Krakow, in his factory.