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.izieu.com 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