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b. april 28th, 1908 (Svitavy, Austro-Hungarian Empire)

d. october 9th, 1974 (Hildesheim, Germany)

[66 yo]

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Oskar Schindler was a businessman from Germany who saved the lives of twelve hundred jewish people during the Holocaust decades ago, by employing them as workers in his kitchen utensils and ammunition factories, located in Poland and in Czech Republic in present day.

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He joined the Nazi Party in 1935.

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In 1939, he purchased an enamel factory in Krakow, Poland, in which he started hiring Jews as employers, and soon became a protector for them.

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Schindler began using his influence to save Jews from concentration camps, where Nazis killed them viciously. He convinced the Nazis that his factory was extremely important to the war, and got the Jews who worked for him to be considered "essential workers."

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the Soviets liberated Auschwitz. Schindler was ruined, but he had saved the lives of more than 1000 Jewish people. He moved to Argentina, where he lived until his death in 1974.

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His story was finally known in the film "Schindler's List", directed by Steven Spielberg.

The film won seven Academy Awards, including best picture.

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In the last part of the movie, his grave is shown.

He died in Hildesheim on October 9th and was buried in Mount Zion in Jerusalem.