Oskar Schindler

Oskar Schindler is the main protagonist of the movie Schindler's List. Based on the late Oskar Schindler, he is portrayed by Liam Neeson, who played Qui-Gon Jinn and Bryan Mills.

He is a German businessman who saved the lives of 1,100 Jews by employing them in his factories.

Role in Schindler's List
His first appearance in the movie was at the nightclub, having paying a waiter to serve drinks to a nearby Nazi members with a woman, getting their attention.

He moved to the overcrowded Krakow Ghetto when the German army forced Polish Jews inside the ghetto, hoping to make a fortune as a member of the Nazi Party. Paying bribes on German soldiers and SS officers, he hires Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern to help run his business. He hired Jewish workers due to low cost of employment and maintains friendship status with Nazi Party members due to his title as "Herr Direktor."

During his stay alongside his wife, he notices the girl in red walking in the streets of the Plaszow Ghetto while noticing the Ghetto in heavy liquidation; he witnesses many Jewish people killed during liquidation (under orders of Amon L. Goeth). However, Schindler finds the girl in red dead when her body was taken away in a wagon, one of the corpses to be burned down. He becomes friends with Goeth when he encounters him in drunken state. Somehow, Goeth asks what is power, but Schindler answers it wisely. Schindler then talks to Helen Hirsch about Goeth beating her brutally and the day that he killed a Jewish woman from the steps.

After a conversation with Stern about Goeth, Schindler then is baffled to acknowledge Goeth's personality but maintains his friendship with him carefully. He supports the SS, through gifts and money, then bribes Goeth to build a sub-camp to protect his workers.

Goeth then ships the last of the Jews at Plaszow to a Auschwitz concentration camp. Schindler then asks Goeth about moving his Jews to the new munitions factory he builds in Zwittau-Brinnlitz, his home town. Goeth agrees, but charges a heavy bribe from Schindler. Schindler and Stern make the "Schindler's List", a list of Jews to be transferred from Auschwitz.

The train containing the Schindlerjuden were accidentally transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau, but Schindler bribes SS officer Rudolf Hoess with a bag of diamonds to release the Jewish inside before Hoess could kill them all. In the new factory, Schindler forbids any SS soldiers to go inside the production rooms and persuades his workers to look at the Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath. To protect his workers, Schindler uses his fortune to buy shell casings from other companies and pay Nazi officers but his factory doesn't produce useful armaments after seven months of production. In 1945, Schindler loses his fortune, then runs away from the Red Army. SS soldiers prepare to kill the Jews, but Schindler convinces them to not kill them so that "they can return from the families as men, not murderers." causing the SS squadron to leave against direct orders.

Schindler then leaves for the west to surrender to the Allies occupying Europe, but before he could leave, Stern and the Jews Schindler employed appear in front of him, with Stern giving him a golden ring with the Talmudic inscription "Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire." Schindler becomes ashamed, admitting to Stern that he didn't do enough, but Stern assures him that Schindler had done so much to save them and that there would be generations of Jews living in the world because of Schindler's efforts for the Jews.

The Schindlerjuden then bids Schindler farewell, then leaves to a new town to start new lives after liberation from the Red Army, from the arrival of a Soviet officer.

However, Neeson, the real-life Schindlerjuden and the actors who played their younger selves, places stones in the actual Schindler's grave, with Neeson placing flowers in the grave instead of using a stone.

Actual Schindler in history
After WW2, the actual Schindler lost his marriage and business, retiring as a businessman. 1958. In Jerusalem, he planted a tree in the Avenue of the Righteous then was declared a righteous person despite being a former Nazi Party member by the Yad Vashem council. He died in 1974 and his grave today is seen filled with stones in Mount Zion Cemetery in Jerusalem, Israel. The stones were filled by the Schindlerjuden as a sign of respect and thanks for saving them. The Schindlerjuden, today, were 6000 due to life with families, but a unknown amount of the Jews died. The Schindler's List was found in Australia and his memorial is found in his hometown, now Svitavy, Czech Republic. His suitcase stated that he stayed with a couple before death.