Oscar Schindler (1908–1974) was a Sudeten German industrialist and a member of the Nazi Party who became famous for saving the lives of approximately 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust , He accomplished this by employing them in his enamelware and ammunition factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. He will be remembered as a defender of human rights and a hero behind the enemy Nazi ranks.