Oskar Schindler was a German businessman from Czechoslovakia who saved over 1,000 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. He was initially an opportunist who was not very politically motivated, but he had connections that allowed him to get arrested Nazis off the hook multiple times. After witnessing Nazi atrocities, he had a change of heart and went to great lengths to protect the Jews working for him, providing them with extra food, medicine, and allowing religious observance. After the war he struggled financially and lived in obscurity, but was celebrated by the Jews he saved and buried in Israel.