Respects paid to Oskar Schindler on Holocaust Remembrance Day

(12 Apr 2018) As Israelis paused on Thursday for a nationwide moment of silence in remembrance of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust, many set aside time to pay their respects to an unusual man who became a household name 25 years ago thanks to Hollywood.
Steven Spielberg's 1993 Oscar-winning film "Schindler's List" chronicled the life of German businessman Oskar Schindler's efforts to shield more than 1,000 Jews from Nazi death camps by hiring them to work in his Krakow factory.
Schindler spent his fortune feeding the Jews he saved.
After the war, he emigrated to Argentina with his wife, Emilie, but returned to Germany in 1958 where he died in 1974.
He was buried in Jerusalem at his own request.
Dozens of stones placed on his tombstone - a Jewish tradition to respect the dead - were a testament to the popularity the German industrialist.
A third of the world's Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.
Israel was established afterward in 1948 and hundreds of thousands of survivors fled there.

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