The
Schindlerjuden, literally translated as "
Schindler's Jews", were roughly 1,100
Jews who were saved by
Oskar Schindler during
the Holocaust. They survived the years of Nazi regime primarily through the intervention of Schindler who found them protected status as industrial workers, and after 1944, in an armaments factory in
occupied Czechoslovakia. They avoided being sent to death camps and survived the war. Schindler expended his personal fortune as an industrialist to save the Schindlerjuden.