German man who typed ‘Schindler’s List’ dies at 91

Notable funerals department: thanks to Christine Prater for drawing my attention to this on Facebook.  Link to full story:

http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=224583

German man who typed ‘Schindler’s List’ dies at 91

By JTA 
06/11/2011 23:41

Mietek Pemper was responsible for typing famous list that saved 1,000 Jews during Holocaust; will be buried in Jewish cemetery in Germany.

 Mietek Pemper, the man responsible for typing Oskar Schindler’s famous list that saved more than 1,000 Jews during the Holocaust, died Tuesday in Augsburg, Germany, at age 91.

Pemper is to be buried in the city’s Jewish cemetery, and local officials plan to order flags to be lowered to halfmast, the Agence France-Presse reported...