Oscar Schindler, a Sudetan-born German who, during the Second World War, had saved some 1,100 Jews from Nazi persecution by employing them in an enamel factory he operated near Cracow, Poland, was welcomed here today by a crowd of 300 persons whom he had saved and who now live in Israel.
Mr. Schindler arrived here to participate tomorrow in special Holocaust Memorial services during which a forest will be planted in the Avenue of Righteous Gentiles, honoring the non-Jews who helped Jewish victims of the Nazis.
During the war, Mr. Schindler, who was questioned a number of times by SS officers concerning his activities, succeeded in averting danger to “his Jews” by using his personal contacts and pressure.
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