Life was very dangerous in the camp, and survival was daily work. A partnership between Oskar, his wife Emilie and the Jewish workers themselves was required to establish a concentration camp which saved lives. This is shown by the story of Josef Bau, who forged documents for Jews in the ghetto in Krakow and for Oskar Schindler in Brnenec. He also wrote poems and told jokes to support his fellow Jews who had lost hope, in a demonstration of many different forms of resistance. He kept the poems and his tools to forge documents in a box which he kept during the war. The box was lost, but Oskar Schindler found it in Gross-Rosen concentration camp among the objects stolen from Jews, so Josef could forge documents in Brnenec. Josef Bau saved as many Jews as Oskar Schindler, and here forged documents to send the most dangerous Nazi guards away to fight on the war front.
Rena Finder describes the forging of documents by Josef Bau to get rid of the most dangerous soldiers. Watch her testimony below.