Oscar-winning movie by Steven Spielberg (1993) based on a book ‘Schindler's Ark' (1982) by Thomas Keneally. It tells the story of World War II events whose subject is Oscar Schindler.

Schindler was a German businessman and Nazi party member. After German invasion of Poland in 1939 he was one of many who sought to profit from the occupation of the country. He gained ownership from a bankruptcy court of a factory in Kraków, and renamed it into Deutsche Emaillewaren-Fabrik in which he employed around 1300 Jewish forced laborers. He tried to protect his workers by corrupting local German authorities and threatening them with compensation demands.

After liquidation of Cracow ghetto in 1942 Jews were transported to the concentration camp in Plaszow. Schindler managed to move 900 of them to a camp close to his factory where they lived in better conditions and were relatively safe from deportation. In October 1944 Schindler arranged for Jews working in his factory to be transferred to the Brunnlitz camp in Czechoslovakia. The transport of 1200 was redirected to Auschwitz-Birkenau but Schindler finally managed to move them to Brunnlitz camp which was liberated in May 1945.

Schindler died on 9 October 1974. He was buried with honors in the catholic cemetery in Jerusalem. Yad Vashem Institute awarded him with the Righteous Among the Nations Medal.