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Oct 9, 1974:
Oskar Schindler dies
German businessman Oskar Schindler, credited with saving 1,200
Jews from the Holocaust, dies at the age of 66.
A member of the Nazi Party, he ran an enamel-works factory in
Krakow during the German occupation of Poland, employing workers
from the nearby Jewish ghetto. When the ghetto was liquidated, he
persuaded Nazi officials to allow the transfer of his workers to
the Plaszow labor camp, thus saving them from deportation to the
death camps. In 1944, all Jews at Plaszow were sent to Auschwitz,
but Schindler, at great risk to himself, bribed officials into
allowing him to keep his workers and set up a factory in a safer
location in occupied Czechoslovakia. By the war's end, he was
penniless, but he had saved 1,200 Jews.
In 1962, he was declared a Righteous Gentile by Yad Vashem,
Israel's official agency for remembering the Holocaust. According
to his wishes, he was buried in Israel at the Catholic cemetery
on Mount Zion.
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