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Mimi Reinhard, Who Typed Up Schindler’s List, Dies at 107-By Katharine Q. Seelye Sasha Weitman, the son of Mimi Reinhard, held an old photograph of his mother this week in Israel.Credit…Ariel Schalit/Associated Press Source:Nytimes Sometime in the early autumn of 1944 Mimi Weitmann, as she then was, added her name to a list. She thought she would take the risk. Unfortunately she had to use the horrible first name, Carmen, which her opera-loving father had given her; “Mimi”, from “La Bohème”, was the much nicer nickname they settled on later. Sadly, too, she had to add the surname of her dead husband, Yozsi Weitmann, her love since university, who had been shot by the Germans at the gate of the Krakow ghetto as he had tried to escape. Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. That had happened in 1942. She had been widowed in her 20s, left with ...