A complicated man who was a member of the Nazi party, who loved to drink, to party, to womanize, to forget his commitment to his wife while fathering three illegitimate children, Oskar Schindler realized he could no longer turn the other way and avoid the atrocious, inhuman acts performed on Jews at the hands of Hitler and his henchmen.

He was a millionaire who died penniless after bribing the authorities to allow his factories to continue to run so that approximately 1,200 Jews were spared the brutality of certain death.

As Jewish people were systematically rounded up, hunted down by dogs, fed to the flames of ovens at death campus, Oskar Schindler did all he could possibly do to feed, shelter and keep what came to be known as "his Jews" alive.

Time after time, he devised ways in which the barbaric, sadistic killer Amon Goeth could not touch those working in his factory.

He did not have to do what he did! He could have ignored what was happening all around him, yet a man who loved luxury and expensive food, wine and women, consistently put himself in danger to help the helpless. When asked why he gave all away so that 1,200 could survive, he said "I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism." He did what his conscience told him to do.

He remains a shining example of what one man can do to make a huge difference. ( )