Recording Now Available

The captioned recording of the April 21st Iowa Files is now available on the WDMHS YouTube channel. “Celina Beiniaz; Saved by Schindler’s List” Celina Karp Biniaz, one of the last living survivors from Schindler’s List—and the only one who graduated from North High School and Grinnell College in Iowa. https://youtu.be/lKCWfYl8bgc?si=4i3EoqDHIXxJeRYg

Sandi Yoder, Director of the Iowa Jewish Historical Society, shared Celina’s personal story, which included nearly five years in the Krakow ghetto and the Plaszow labor camp, the transfer to Auschwitz, and her terrifying encounter with Dr. Josef Mengele before she, her mother, and the other women on Schindler’s list were rescued by Schindler and were reunited with her father at Schindler’s factory. In October 2023, IJHS published Saved by Schindler: The Life of Celina Karp Biniaz, a remarkable biography by well-known Iowa historian William Friedricks.