# Mimi Reinhardt > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Mimi_Reinhardt > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Mimi_Reinhardt.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimi_Reinhardt > Source revision: 1331374672 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Austrian secretary (1915–2022)}} {{use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Mimi Reinhardt | image = Photo of Mimi Reinhardt.jpg | birth_name = Carmen Koppel | birth_date = {{Birth date|1915|01|15|df=y}} | birth_place = [Wiener Neustadt](/source/Wiener_Neustadt), [Cisleithania](/source/Cisleithania), [Austria-Hungary](/source/Austria-Hungary) (modern-day [Austria](/source/Austria)) | death_date = {{Death date and age|2022|04|08|1915|01|15|df=y}} | death_place = [Herzliya](/source/Herzliya), [Israel](/source/Israel) | alma_mater = [University of Vienna](/source/University_of_Vienna) | occupation = Secretary | known_for = Author of [Schindler's](/source/Oskar_Schindler) list | children = 2 }} thumb|300px|The list type-written by Mimi Reinhardt. She is number 279, Carmen Weitmann. '''Mimi Reinhardt''' (born '''Carmen Koppel'''; known as '''Carmen Weitmann''' {{circa|1936}} – {{circa|1950}}; 15 January 1915 – 8 April 2022) was an [Austrian Jew](/source/Austrian_Jew)ish secretary. She worked for [Oskar Schindler](/source/Oskar_Schindler) and typed his list of [Jewish](/source/Jews) workers to recruit for his factory.{{Cite web |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/oskar-schindlers-jewish-secretary-who-drew-up-his-worker-lists-dies-at-age-107/ |title=Oskar Schindler's Jewish secretary, who drew up his worker lists, dies at age 107 |website=timesofisrael.com |date=2022-04-08 |accessdate=2022-04-09 |archive-date=2022-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220408230832/https://www.timesofisrael.com/oskar-schindlers-jewish-secretary-who-drew-up-his-worker-lists-dies-at-age-107/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/1649436563-schindler-s-secretary-mimi-reinhardt-dies-aged-107 |title=Schindler's Secretary Mimi Reinhardt Dies Aged 107 |website=www.i24news.tv |date=2022-04-08 |accessdate=2022-04-09 |archive-date=2022-04-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409024241/https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/1649436563-schindler-s-secretary-mimi-reinhardt-dies-aged-107 |url-status=live }} ==Early years== Carmen Koppel was born to Emil and Frieda Koppel in [Wiener Neustadt](/source/Wiener_Neustadt), [Austria-Hungary](/source/Austria-Hungary).{{Cite web |url=http://www.zeitgeschichte-wn.at/stadt-spaziergaenge/follow-the-codes/pplace/561?pfadid=14 |title=Follow the Codes – ab- und zugewandt |last=Sulzgruber |first=Werner |website=zeitgeschichte-wn.at |language=de |accessdate=2022-04-09 |archive-date=2022-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220408175617/http://www.zeitgeschichte-wn.at/stadt-spaziergaenge/follow-the-codes/pplace/561?pfadid=14 |url-status=live }} She learned shorthand to take notes better during her language studies at the [University of Vienna](/source/University_of_Vienna). In Vienna, [Austria](/source/First_Austrian_Republic), she met her future husband, whom she followed from Austria to [Kraków](/source/Krak%C3%B3w), [Poland](/source/Second_Polish_Republic), in 1936. Their son, Sascha Weitmann, was born there in June 1939.{{cite web |url=https://www.welt.de/kultur/history/article1481904/Die-Frau-die-Schindlers-Liste-schrieb.html |title=1944: Die Frau, die Schindlers Liste schrieb |last=Schwartz |first=Adi |date=2007-12-20 |work=[Welt Online](/source/Die_Welt) |location=Hamburg |language=de |access-date=2022-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925045834/https://www.welt.de/kultur/history/article1481904/Die-Frau-die-Schindlers-Liste-schrieb.html |archive-date=2013-09-25 |url-status=live }} ==Oskar Schindler== Carmen Weitmann and her husband managed to evacuate their son and her grandmother to [Hungary](/source/Kingdom_of_Hungary_(1920%E2%80%931946)) during the [Nazi](/source/Nazi_Germany) occupation of [Poland](/source/General_Government). She and her husband were arrested; he was shot at the gate of the [Kraków ghetto](/source/Krak%C3%B3w_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](/source/Krak%C3%B3w-P%C5%82asz%C3%B3w_concentration_camp). As she knew shorthand, she was employed in the camp administration, where she met [Oskar Schindler](/source/Oskar_Schindler). She knew he treated his Jewish workers well and became Schindler's secretary. After Schindler had asked the [SS](/source/SS) camp commander [Amon Göth](/source/Amon_G%C3%B6th) for more workers, she began to type out the list of workers from the ghetto of the Polish city of Krakow so that they could then be transferred to the [Brünnlitz subcamp](/source/Br%C3%BCnnlitz_labor_camp), where Oskar Schindler continued his armaments business.{{cite news |last=AFP |title=Oskar Schindler's Jewish secretary, who drew up his worker lists, dies at age 107 |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/oskar-schindlers-jewish-secretary-who-drew-up-his-worker-lists-dies-at-age-107/ |access-date=2022-04-15 |website=[The Times of Israel](/source/The_Times_of_Israel) |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-04-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220410191003/https://www.timesofisrael.com/oskar-schindlers-jewish-secretary-who-drew-up-his-worker-lists-dies-at-age-107/ |url-status=live |issn=0040-7909}} The train that was supposed to take the Jewish workers on the list from Plaszow to Brünnlitz in the fall of 1944 was diverted to [Auschwitz](/source/Auschwitz). Mimi and the other "[Schindlerjuden](/source/Schindlerjuden)" were there for about two weeks and they described this time as "straight out of [Dante's ''Inferno''](/source/Inferno_(Dante))". At the time, Schindler was trying to get "his" Jews from Auschwitz to Brünnlitz. Due to his help, 1,200 Jews survived there until the liberation in May 1945. ==Later years and death== After the war, Weitmann found her son in [Hungary](/source/Second_Hungarian_Republic) and moved with him to [Tangier International Zone](/source/Tangier_International_Zone), [Morocco](/source/Morocco). There she met and married her second husband, a hotel manager surnamed Reinhardt. In 1957, the family moved to the United States and lived in [New York](/source/New_York_City).{{cite web |url=https://www.hagalil.com/01/de/index.php?itemid=1691 |title=Mimi Reinhardt im Porträt: Die Frau, die Schindlers Liste schrieb |last=Schmitz |first=Thorsten |date=2008-01-12 |periodical=[hagalil.com](/source/HaGalil) |publisher=hagalil.com |language=de |access-date=2022-04-08 |archive-date=2022-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220408175917/https://www.hagalil.com/01/de/index.php?itemid=1691 |url-status=live }} She had a second child, a daughter, with her second husband, but her daughter died of an illness at the age of 49. In 2007, at age 92, Reinhardt moved to [Herzliya](/source/Herzliya), Israel, to live with her son, Sacha Weitman, who was then a professor of sociology at Tel Aviv University.{{Cite news |url=https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3479059,00.html |title=Schindler's secretary moves to Israel at 92 |author=Yael Branovsky and AFP |date=2007-12-04 |work=Ynetnews |language=en |access-date=2022-04-10 |archive-date=2022-04-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409223847/https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3479059,00.html |url-status=live }} She died there in 2022, at age 107, in a [retirement home](/source/retirement_home).{{cite web |url=https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/wissen/geschichte/id_91985838/mimi-reinhardt-ist-tot-107-sie-verfasste-oskar-schindlers-liste-.html |title=Sekretärin von Oskar Schindler im Alter von 107 Jahren gestorben |periodical=[t-online.de](/source/T-online) |publisher= |date=2022-04-08 |language=de |access-date=2022-04-09 |archive-date=2022-04-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409041642/https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/wissen/geschichte/id_91985838/mimi-reinhardt-ist-tot-107-sie-verfasste-oskar-schindlers-liste-.html |url-status=live }} == References == {{reflist}} == External links == * [https://img.zeit.de/gesellschaft/2022-04/oskar-schindler-sekretaerin-mimi-reinhardt/wide__871x490__desktop Image of Mimi Reinhardt in 2019] {{DEFAULTSORT:Reinhardt, Mimi}} Category:1915 births Category:2022 deaths Category:People from Wiener Neustadt Category:People from Vienna Category:Austrian Holocaust survivors Category:Austrian women centenarians Category:Amon Göth Category:People who rescued Jews during the Holocaust Category:Schindlerjuden Category:Kraków Ghetto inmates Category:Jewish centenarians Category:20th-century Austrian Jews Category:21st-century Austrian Jews --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Mimi Reinhardt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimi_Reinhardt) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimi_Reinhardt?action=history)). 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