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German businessman Oskar Schindler employed at least 1,098 at his munitions and enamel factory in World War II, convincing the Nazis they were too important to murder in the Holocaust.
Oskar Schindler saved more than a 1,000 Jews during the Holocaust—while undeniably heroic, his real story is also more complicated.
In the 1930s, Ireland instructed all of its consul officials in Europe not to issue visas to Jewish refugees, but the country was also in a state of economic stagnation at the time and Seán Lemass realised that new industries would help the country. An Irish Jewish businessman, Marcus Witztum, offered to help him and went to Paris, met Henri Orbach there who owned a small hat factory and suggested he open a business in Ireland, a safer place for people of the Jewish persuasion than continental Europe. Orbach agreed.
In the 1930s, Ireland instructed all of its consul officials in Europe not to issue visas to Jewish refugees, but the country was also in a state of economic stagnation at the time and Seán Lemass realised that new industries would help the country. An Irish Jewish businessman, Marcus Witztum, offered to help him and went to Paris, met Henri Orbach there who owned a small hat factory and suggested he open a business in Ireland, a safer place for people of the Jewish persuasion than continental Europe. Orbach agreed.
Steven Spielberg's 'Schindler's List' is a Christian and capitalistic take on the story of the Shoah of a Good Nazi versus the bad ones.