What did Oskar Schindler do to save the Jews?
Before the war, Oskar Schindler was a very wealthy factory owner who was just focused on his profit and his factory, he was also a gambler and a major womanizer. He became a Nazi by choice when the war started and kept his factory going through the war so he could still make a profit even though others were suffering and being slaughtered. All of this changed when the war started because he saw what the Germans were doing to the Jews and how they were treating them and knew it wasn't right and something should be done. Oskar Schindler saved about 1,200 Jews by the time that the Holocaust was over. The weird thing was is that he was apart of the Nazi party and the Nazi's during that time didn't like the Jews, communists, gypsies, fascists, and much more. Schindler saved the Jews by putting them to work in his factory. There he would make them feel safe. Then after a while he switched his factory into Czechoslovakia. He made all his workers go there by train. But one of the trains with all the women accidentally went to Auschwitz. Luckily he got there in time before they were going to work there before they would get gassed. Then he made the train go to the factory. And when they got on the train to go to his new work he made a list of all the Jewish workers in his factory so he could save them. Here is a picture of one of the lists. He would write down the names of Jewish people in factories that he'd want to have work in his factory and he'd basically go and bribe the guards to free them and give them to Schindler. Schindler spent almost all of his fortune on the Jews that he saved. Although his significance in saving the Jews wasn't immediate, he still accomplished an amazing act throughout the course of WWII.
Oskar Schindler was not really known for his acts that he did during the war until the movie "Schindler's List" came out. That is when people really noticed what he did and now he is one of the biggest names known for his acts of kindness. I think that Oskar Schindler was really important in WWII because of those 1200 Jews he saved, protected, and fed with is own money. I think that the legacy of Oskar Schindler will be known for a long time but i don't think it is something passed on by story, i think people will learn in history class when they get to the Holocaust part of school with WWII.