Chilean Schindler's List' saved leftists from regime
Chilean Schindler's List' saved leftists from regime
By Miguel Sanchez (AFP) 11 mins ago.
During the darkest days of Chile's dictatorship, a man named Jorge Schindler saved dozens of leftist militants by employing them undercover at his pharmacies, risking his own life like a different Schindler during another of history's nightmares.
The South American Schindler's story was published for the first time Friday in "The Chilean Schindler's List," a biography.
It retraces his silent struggle against Augusto Pinochet's brutal regime and the uncanny parallels with Oskar Schindler's secret defiance of Nazi Germany. The two men are not, however, related.
Jorge Schindler was an active member of the Chilean Communist Party when Pinochet's troops overthrew socialist president Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973.
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