Nazi Party member Schindler saved 1,200 Jews from Nazis
Born on April 28, 1908, German industrialist and Nazi Party member Oskar Schindler is credited with sheltering approximately 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust. Schindler employed Jews in the 'Schindler's List' in his factories in Nazi-occupied Poland and Czechoslovakia preventing their deportation to concentration camps. The saved Jews and their descendants came to be known as 'Schindler's Jews'.