Schindlerjuden
Sign in to saveupright=1.3|thumbnail|Oskar Schindler (second from right) with a group of Jews he rescued during the Holocaust. The photo was taken in 1946, a year after [[World War II ended.]] The ''''', literally translated from German as "Schindler Jews'", were a group of roughly 1,200 Jews saved by German industrialist Oskar Schindler during the Holocaust. They survived the years of the Nazi regime primarily through the intervention of Schindler, who afforded them protected status as industrial workers at his enamelware factory in Kraków, capital of the General Government, and after 1944, in an armaments
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upright=1.3|thumbnail|Oskar Schindler (second from right) with a group of Jews he rescued during the Holocaust. The photo was taken in 1946, a year after [[World War II ended.]] The ''''', literally translated from German as "Schindler Jews'", were a group of roughly 1,200 Jews saved by German industrialist Oskar Schindler during the Holocaust. They survived the years of the Nazi regime primarily through the intervention of Schindler, who afforded them protected status as industrial workers at his enamelware factory in Kraków, capital of the General Government, and after 1944, in an armaments factory in occupied Czechoslovakia. There, they avoided being sent to death camps and survived the genocide. Schindler expended his personal fortune made as an industrialist to save the Schindlerjuden.
The story of the Schindlerjuden has been depicted in the book ''Schindler's Ark'' (1982), by Thomas Keneally, and Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of the novel, ''Schindler's List'' (1993). Poldek Pfefferberg, one of the survivors, persuaded Keneally to write the novel and Spielberg to produce the film.