BIOGRAPHY:
Oskar Schindler
Born April 28, 1908
Zwittau, Moravia, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died October 9, 1974
Frankfurt Germany

Oskar Schindler joined the Nazi Party for business and began selling black market goods to the German Army and the SS. Schindler started employing Jews in his facrory because he could pay them less. He began employing Jews that the German army would concider unable to work. He saved over 1,200 Jews by employing them in his factory and proving to the SS that they were valuable workers. He became friends with key with SS members which made it easier for him to buy Jews and bribe German officials. Some fifty-six thousans Jews lived in the ghetto when Schindler started his factory. There are now 7,000 decendents from the Jews Schindler saved.