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Nazi Saves Jews

During a raid on the Krakow Ghetto in 1942 a member of the Nazi Party watched from an overlooking hill. Oskar Schindler was shocked by the murder of many Jews who were working for him in his enamelware factory. Oskar was a very persuasive man. After the raid he used all of his skills to try and protect his “Schindler Jews”. He bought more factories in order to save more Jews. Even through he was a Nazi himself he started saving Jews because other Nazis had killed his Jewish workers.
In Zwittau, Oskar Schindler was born on April 28, 1908. Hans Schindler and his wife Franziska Luser were Schindler's parents, but they divorced. Oskar became a Sudeten German factory owner who is recognized for saving 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust. He had Jews working in his enamelware and ammunitions factories located in Poland. He called the Jews that he saved his children. He died on October 9, 1974, and was buried in Jerusalem.
Close friends of Oskar Schindler were entrusted with a suitcase after his death in 1974. The couples’ children rediscovered the suitcase when they were clearing their parents’ loft and found an original list in 1999. Schindler’s original list consisted of 1,200 Jewish names that he had saved from dying in the extermination camps.
The Jews that he saved worked in his enamelware and ammunitions factories all over Poland and some in the Czech Republic. He got more factories that belonged to Jewish owners under Nazi Germany's Aryanization policies. The Nazis thought that Oskar was letting the Jews work without pay. The more factories he received the more Jews he got to save.
He bribed, lied, and gave money to the Nazis to give him more Jews and to protect himself. He used bribery, lying, and his own money to save the 1,200 Jews. He did all these bad things in order to save Jews. The Nazis didn’t suspect him because he cheated on his wife, gambled, bribed, and was a drunk. He was sent to prison because he was suspected of running black market activities and was involved in stealing and cheating. After that he used his “skills” to protect himself from being suspected and to save more Jews.