Schindler, Oskar (1908-74), German businessman whose fame rests on his remarkable rescue of more than 1,000 Jews during the Nazi Holocaust. Oskar Schindler was born in the Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia. He moved to Poland in 1930 and made a fortune in Kraków. He saved 1,200 Polish Jews from the Nazi death camps by employing them at a munitions factory he opened using Jewish labor. The factory had been a bankrupt manufacturer of enamelware when Schindler bought it and …showed first 75 words of 387 total…

…showed last 75 words of 387 total…who played him in the film, believed that Schindler was possessed with remarkable bravery and financial wizardry only during those few short years. Oskar Schindler died in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1974. According to his wishes, his body was brought to Jerusalem, and survivors carried his coffin through the city to a Roman Catholic cemetery on Mount Zion, where he was buried. Compton's Encyclopedia Online v3.0 © 1998 The Learning Company, Inc. Bibliography School Library School History Book Internet