Mimi Reinhard, who has died aged 107, was being held at a Nazi concentration camp near Krakow, Poland, in 1944, but because she spoke flawless German and could take shorthand, she was allowed to work in the camp office. One of her jobs was to compile a list of Jewish prisoners working in factories owned by industrialist Oskar Schindler.
Reinhard, then known as Carmen Weitmann, typed the names of more than 1,000 Jewish people – including her own and those of two friends – to create what became known as “Schindler’s List”. She called herself a Schreibkraft, or typist.
