German businessman Oskar Schindler (1908-1974) saved Jews in Poland and Czechoslovakia from death at the hands of the Nazis during World War II by employing them in his factory. Oskar Schindler was the unlikeliest of heroes--indifferent to religion and...

He was a Nazi party member, an indifferent Catholic, a womanizer and a businessman not averse to engaging in illegal activities to increase his profits. But for one woman who knew Oskar Schindler, whose story is dramatized in Steven Spielberg's acclaimed new film...

Samuel Heilman The Jewish Week 01-13-1994 Another Side Of Schindler's List: No, Oskar Schindler was not. everyone's hero SAMUEL HEILMAN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH WEEK Both my mother and father were on Schindler's list. For most of the 40-odd...

Israel's Holocaust museum on Wednesday posthumously honored a Romanian reserves officer who blocked the deportation of Romanian Jews to Nazi death camps.Theodor Criveanu was inducted into Yad Vashem's "Righteous Among the Nations" group of non-Jews who rescued Jews from the Nazis. His son, Willie Criveanu,...

An 86-year-old former teacher who risked her life to save more than 300 Jewish children from the Nazis in Belgium was granted honorary Israeli citizenship Wednesday at an emotional ceremony in which she was reunited with dozens of the people she rescued."What I did was...

Describes Oskar Schindler and his presence during the holocaust; relating to the movie and/or the book "Schindler's List."

Essay provides a brief biography of Oscar Schindler.

Oscar Schindler was an unexpected hero during the Second World War. A businessman who exploited Jews as a cheap source of labor, a drinker and womanizer, and even a member of the Nazi party for business reasons, Schindler gave up his wealth and his lifestyle to save over 1,000 Jews through providing them with safe haven in his munitions factory.