Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist and a member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of over 1, 200 Jews during the Holocaust. He is best known for his efforts to protect and save Jewish refugees from the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and Czechoslovakia. He is remembered as 'Herr Schindler' or 'the righteous gentile' for his heroic actions.