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Oskar Schindler Rescuer Oskar Schindler was born on April 28 1908 and died on October 9 1974. He was a German Nazi. In 1935 he worked for the Abwer, a German intelligence service, as a Nazi spy. In 1938 he was caught and arrested for military treason and was sentenced to death, but was released when Germany took over Czechoslovakia. After he was free he moved to Krakow, Poland in 1939. He bought a factory called Amalia the produced enamel kitchenware. The workers in his factory were all Jews from the ghetto Plaszow. One time when Oskar Schindler was horse back riding past the ghetto he saw the people being tortured. He decided that he would do all he could to beat the Nazi system. In 1943 he built a sub camp to Plaszow and housed as many Jewish people as could until 1945.Oskar Schindler spent over 4 million Reichsmarks saving over 1,200 Jews. Sources: Oskar Schindler saving Jews from the holocaust by Ann Byers.