On this day in 1974, Oskar Schindler passed away. Within days, he was interred at the Mount Zion cemetery in Jerusalem. By the time of his death, he was considered a Righteous Among the Nations, responsible for saving the lives of 1,200 Jews.Schindler, the owner of an enamelware factory in Kraków, Poland, employed approximately 1,000 Jews. When he witnessed the liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto, he was shocked by the brutality and his workforce went from employees to people, from ghetto dwellers to a part of humanity. Schindler’s most remarkable feat was cajoling Amon Goth, an SS officer in charge of the Płaszów concentration camp, to keep his factory outside the camp and house his workers in a safe subcamp, where the Jews could eat well and observe their Judaism. Schindler’s extensive contacts within the Nazi Party and his considerable wealth underwrote his courageous life-saving project. He also provided information to the Jewish resistance movement about Nazi atrocities and secured money for the underground. Then, in 1944, with the help of several Jewish contacts, Schindler was provided a list of Jews he set out to save. He moved his factory, which shifted to making munitions, to the Sudetenland, beyond the clutches of the Nazis and their plan to liquidate all factory workers. Yet, when his workers who were bound for their new homes were instead sent to the death camps, Schindler again had to exert his powers of persuasion and bribery to rescue them. After the war, having spent all his money saving Jewish lives, Schindler endured business failures in Germany and Argentina. He survived on the financial assistance of the Jews he had saved, several of whom he had stayed in touch with after the war. In 1962, he was invited to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem; in 1974, Oskar Schindler died in West Germany at the age of 66.