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Ingrid is Oskar Schindler’s Sudeten German mistress. They live together, and some even assume that she’s his wife. Like Klonowska, Ingrid seems to have few hard feelings about Schindler’s many relationships with other women. She helps run things behind the scenes and at one point provides a care package for him while he’s in prison.
Ingrid Quotes in Schindler’s List
The Schindler’s List quotes below are all either spoken by Ingrid or refer to Ingrid. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5 Quotes
Victoria Klonowska, a Polish secretary, was the beauty of Oskar’s front office, and he immediately began a long affair with her. Ingrid, his German mistress, must have known, as surely as Emilie Schindler knew about Ingrid. For Oskar would never be a surreptitious lover. He had a childlike sexual frankness.
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Chapter 15 Quotes
His eyes slewed up Krakusa to the scarlet child. They were doing it within half a block of her; they hadn’t waited for her column to turn out of sight into Józefińska. Schindler could not have explained at first how that compounded the murders on the sidewalk. Yet somehow it proved, in a way no one could ignore, their serious intent. While the scarlet child stopped in her column and turned to watch, they shot the woman in the neck, and one of them, when the boy slid down the wall whimpering, jammed a boot down on his head as if to hold it still and put the barrel against the back of the neck—the recommended SS stance—and fired.
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Ingrid Character Timeline in Schindler’s List
The timeline below shows where the character Ingrid appears in Schindler’s List. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Prologue
...and he’s not “virtuous” in the conventional definition of the word: he lives with a German mistress and is having an affair with his Polish secretary, while his wife Emilie lives back...
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Chapter 2
Schindler (along with his German mistress Ingrid) met Aue at a party the previous night. At the party, Schindler told Aue he...
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Chapter 5
...secretary, and Schindler begins an affair with her shortly after they meet. His German mistress, Ingrid, seems to know about the affair, just as Schindler’s wife, Emilie, knows about Ingrid. Schindler...
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Chapter 7
Meanwhile, Emilie goes back home, and the next time Stern visits Schindler, Ingrid is back. Stern tells Schindler that stories are going around about him being a “German...
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Chapter 12
...comes back, he has two bottles for them, as well as various other amenities that Ingrid packed for Schindler. Schindler and Philip have a pleasant evening.
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Chapter 15
As Schindler and Ingrid are riding horses down an avenue, they see a line of women and children being...
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Chapter 33
...opinions are, but in fact, she will make her own hidden contributions to Schindler’s effort. Ingrid also comes with Schindler, although she won’t ever live with him again. Klonowska stays behind...
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