He owned enamelware factories and ammunition factories in order to employ Jewish people, so they wouldn’t be sent to extermination camps, such as Auschwitz, one of the camps where over one million Jews were gassed, hung, or shot to death, located in Poland. The book starts off in Plaszow, a labor camp run by the commandant, Amon Goeth. Schindler attends a dinner at that location, seeking business opportunities. There are several different high ranking officers, including a man named Herr Bosch, attending the dinner as well. Bosch asks Schindler if he can give him some pots, as his aunt in Bremen was bombed out, which destroyed all of her kitchenware, “Everything! The marriage bed. The sideboards - all her Meissen and crockery,” (pg. 20). Bosch also asks about Schindler’s wife and how he keeps her off his back. Schindler obviously gets angered by that comment, and Bosch is afraid that Schindler may be reconsidering not giving him the kitchenware. This is just one of the only times Schindler has gotten angered by the high ranking officers, as later in the book, Amon Goeth goes on his balcony and snipes any Jew he sees not
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