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	Schindler     Click thumbnail to select album:   Oskar Schindler, Rescuer Of Jews Oskar Schindler's List
	During World War 2 and the Holocaust, millions of Jews died in the Nazi death camps like Auschwitz, but Oskar Schindler's Jews miraculously survived. To more than 1200 Jews Oskar Schindler was all that stood between them and death at the hands of the SS. But he remained true to his Jews, the workers he referred to as my children. In the shadow of Auschwitz he kept the Nazis out and everyone alive. Today there are more than 7,000 descendants of Oskar Schindler's Jews living in US and Europe, and many in Israel. Before World War 2, the Jewish population of Poland was 3.5 million. Today there are between 3,000 and 4,000 left. Oskar Schindler spent millions to protect and save his Schindler Jews, everything he possessed - he died penniless. But he earned the everlasting gratitude of his "children". Now his name is known as a household word for courage - a hero who saved 1200 Jews from Adolf Hitler's gas chambers. Oskar Schindler died in Hildesheim in Germany October 9, 1974 and he wanted to be buried in Israel in Jerusalem. As he said: My children are here .. - Louis Bülow www.auschwitz.dk   www.deathcamps.info   www.shoah.dk   www.annefrank.dk  www.oskarschindler.com  www.emilieschindler.com Links: Yad Vashem The Jewish Student Online Research Center The Nizkor Project The Simon Wiesenthal Center A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust A - THE - World War 2 Portal Aktion Reinhard Camps Cybrary of the Holocaust War Crimes and Genocide The Einsatzgruppen Fortunoff Video Archive - Yale University The Holocaust History Project The Kindertransport Organization Home Page