Unique Schindler artefact donated to Holocaust museum

By Carolyn Webb
Updated May 2 2016 - 12:23pm, first published 8:56am
Louis Gross holds the lead model his late father, Jozef Gross, used to make the gold ring fellow Jewish workers gave to Oskar Schindler late in World War II. Photo: Penny Stephens
Louis Gross holds the lead model his late father, Jozef Gross, used to make the gold ring fellow Jewish workers gave to Oskar Schindler late in World War II. Photo: Penny Stephens
Joanna and Jozef Gross pictured in The Age in 1994. Photo: Emmanuel Santos
Joanna and Jozef Gross pictured in The Age in 1994. Photo: Emmanuel Santos
Jozef Gross (front) and Andrew Belza in Gross' jewellery workshop, believed to be at Latham House in Swanston Street, Melbourne, in the mid-'50s.  Photo: Supplied
Jozef Gross (front) and Andrew Belza in Gross' jewellery workshop, believed to be at Latham House in Swanston Street, Melbourne, in the mid-'50s. Photo: Supplied
Louis Gross has donated to the Jewish Holocaust Museum this lead model that his late father Jozef Gross used to make the gold ring fellow Jewish workers gave to Oskar Schindler late in World War II. Photo: Penny Stephens
Louis Gross has donated to the Jewish Holocaust Museum this lead model that his late father Jozef Gross used to make the gold ring fellow Jewish workers gave to Oskar Schindler late in World War II. Photo: Penny Stephens
Erna and Wilek Rosner's wedding in Munich, Germany in September 22,1946. Oskar Schindler is the tall man in the back. Leo Rosner with accordion; Rosner's wife Helen is left of him.
 Photo: Supplied
Erna and Wilek Rosner's wedding in Munich, Germany in September 22,1946. Oskar Schindler is the tall man in the back. Leo Rosner with accordion; Rosner's wife Helen is left of him. Photo: Supplied
Jozef Gross in Krakow, Poland, in the 1930s.  Photo: Supplied
Jozef Gross in Krakow, Poland, in the 1930s. Photo: Supplied

The model for the gold ring that Jewish workers gave to World War II hero Oskar Schindler has been donated to a Melbourne museum.

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