Argentina’s president approved a government pension for 90-year-old Emilie Schindler. The widow of the industrialist featured in the film “Schindler’s List” will receive $1,000 per month to ease her economic difficulties. Emilie and Oskar Schindler are credited with saving some 1,300 Polish Jews from Nazi death camps by putting them to work in his factories.
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