Most of the population has probably heard of the name “Schindler” or heard of the movie “Schindler 's list”. Well, Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist, who worked many jobs until he came into possession of a factory, where he helped thousands of Jews escape the holocaust. This is how he grew up to help those people. Oskar Schindler was born on April 28, 1908, in Svitavy (Zwittau). Where he grew up in a strict German catholic family. He was the eldest of two children. His family had a business of working as farm machinery manufacturers, which he worked in for most of his teenage years. Oskars job, working with his family, led him to meet his future wife, Emilie. They got married in 1928, against the family’s wishes. He stopped working