The events of World War II, however, left him appalled and he decided to save as many Jewish lives as he could. When in German Army started to liquidate the Krakow ghetto and transporting its residents to concentration camps, Schindler used his connections to protect his employees. He moved all of his Jewish employees to the factory, where they could live relatively safely. He justified his actions to the German authorities that skilled workers were essential for the work of the factory and the attempt to harm them will be bringing his claim for compensation from the German government.
When at the end of the war the Red Army approached Krakow in , the German camps were liquidated and their inmates were mostly exterminated. In October Schindler succeeded to save Jews from almost certain death in the Plaszow concentration camp. The list of names was compiled in collaboration with administration workers from the Plaszow concentration camp, Mietek Pemper, and Itzhak Stern. He arranged for the Jews to escape the inevitable extermination and continued to bribe SS officials to prevent the execution of his workers.
By the end of World War II Schindler had spent his entire fortune on bribes and black-market purchases of supplies for his workers. Despite his heroic actions, as a member of the Nazi Party, Schindler was in danger of being arrested as a war criminal. When the war ended, he had to escape Russian troops.
He lost all of his valuables, including a car, a diamond and a golden ring he was given by his Jewish survivors. He kept, however, the most important document he was to present to the American authorities. It contained a statement from several of the Jews he saved attesting his actions.
After the war, Oskar Schindler had lived in Argentine for some time and then settled in Germany. He remained in contact with many of the Jews he had met during the war and developed close friendships with people from this famous list. Due to the fact that he did not prosper in post-war Germany, he received assistance from Jewish organisations and donations from families of those whose he had saved. It is an award bestowed by the State of Israel on non-Jews who took an active role to rescue Jews during the Holocaust.
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A year later, he had a heart attack and spent time recuperating in a hospital. On October 9, Schindler died of liver failure at the age of Before his death, he requested to be buried in Jerusalem. Amid hundreds of tearful Schindler Jews, his wish was granted and he was buried on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. As for Schindler's wife Emilie, who also played a huge but publicly understated role in saving hundreds of Jews during World War II, she continued to live in Argentina, scraping by with the help of the Schindler Jews and the government of Argentina.
Towards the end of her life and in failing health, she asked to live her remaining days in Germany. Although a home was secured for her in Bavaria in the summer of , she would never live in it. Soon after she became critically ill and died on October 5, in a Berlin hospital. She was just shy of her 94th birthday. Although she struggled with resentment towards her late husband for his womanizing and marital neglect, Emilie still had profound love for Schindler.
Revealing her internal dialogue when she visited his tomb almost 40 years after his passing, she had said to him: "At last we meet again. I have received no answer, my dear, I do not know why you abandoned me. But what not even your death or my old age can change is that we are still married, this is how we are before God. I have forgiven you everything, everything. As the second World War raged, then-Princess Elizabeth rallied to the cause and enlisted in the military, helping boost the morale of the British people.
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