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Schindler's "essential workers," as the film shows, are not just strong, able-bodied men and women, but also (and this shows Schindler's compassion in addition to his business sense) people missing arms; children, and elderly men and women. After the Krakow Ghetto itself is next destroyed, Schindler bribes the Nazis to let him keep his workers, although some of them actually have few or no skills, which puts the factory itself at risk. Still, Schindler absorbs this risk in order to save these Jews from deportation with all the rest. When Schindler's workforce once again risks deportation, Schindler arranges, again through bribery, to have them shipped to a factory outside Poland, in his old hometown in Moravia, outside Poland in what is now part of Czechoslovakia.

Ultimately, Oskar Schindler, whose compassion for his Jewish workers continually evolves throughout the film, loses the entire fortune that he has amassed during the war in bribing the Nazis, again and again, to leave his Jewish workers alone. At the end of the war, though, Schindler still will face arrest by the fast-approaching Soviet Army of wartime profiteering, so he is forced to flee his factory as the Russian Army approaches his factory in Moravia.

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His workers give him a letter to carry with him testifying to his good deeds and how he has saved them all from death. The next morning, when the factory itself is liberated by the Russian Army, Schindler himself is already long gone.

After that, the film's setting shifts to the grave, in Israel, of the real-life Oskar Schindler. According to the article "Schindler's List" (Wikipedia, May 22, 2006):

The actors portraying the major characters walk hand-in-hand with the actual persons they portrayed, placing stones on Schindler's grave as they pass....

In a final scene, a man places a rose on the grave, and stands contemplatively over it. Though many believe it to be director Steven

Spielberg... It is actually Liam Neeson, who portrayed Oskar Schindler in the film and is the only actor not present in the aforementioned line of people.

This moving ending of Schindler's List is the only portion of the film that is not based on historical facts about the life and deeds of Oskar Schindler, whose surprising wartime compassion, along with his business sense, saved 1100 Polish Jews from death at the hands of the Nazi war machine.

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