Some Jewish traditions are VERY old. To prevent wild animals from digging up the body of the dead person, the ancient Israelites would cover the gravesite with stones. When mourners or passers-by would come to visit the grave in later years, they would refresh the stones that animals had disturbed. (Israel in 2000 BCE could be a pretty rural place.)

For the last thousand years or so, there hasn't been much need to prevent wild animals from digging up the body, so there's no longer a need for BIG stones. So mourners place small stones on the grave to maintain the tradition. Frequently, these are just pebbles placed on the tombstone. The more pebbles, the greater the number of mourners who have visited.

In the play "Fiddler on the Roof", Tevye asks "Why do we do these things? That, I can tell you in ONE WORD; TRADITION!". This begins the song "Tradition!"

Itzhak Stern made the list of Schindlerjuden. In English, those German words mean "Schindlers Jews"

He spent approximately 2.8 million dollars.

Itzhak Stern was Schindler's accountant.

Stern was one of many and in the film the character of Stern takes on the role of many real people so as the audience can more easily follow the film.

He was a business man and as such he had the right underNazi rule to use Jews for slave labour. In so doing he looked after them and saw to it that as little harm as possible befell them. BMW used the Jews also and simply worked them to death and had them replaced as they needed new slaves. He had to work within the system stay alive and do what he could as a fellow human being.

He was a boss.

Oskar Karlweis died on January 24, 1956, in New York City, New York, USA of heart attack.

Oskar Schindler was on the unsuccessful side of the Germans and in the Nazi party through the beginning of his war career. He was a wealthy, successful and powerful man and could basically do whatever he had desired.

However by the end of the war, Schindler had managed to save over 1,200 innocent Jews by employing them to his factory and making the Germans believe he was only getting them to run his factory.

No one was quite certain as to why Schindler, starting off as a powerful German man spontaneously decided to end up as an impoverished life-saver. But what past generations, present generations and future generations will always know is that his unbelievably courageous actions will always be impossible to forget.

Some confusion here. Oskar Schindler died a natural death in 1974.

Oskar Schindler was a great man. Although at first he just wanted to profit off of the cheap labour and take adavantage of people and the war, he soon saw the horrors of the holocaust with the liquidation of the ghetto and the way he saw Jews and other cultured people treated. At first he was just greedy however in the end he risked his own life to save people. All the money he made off of the factory helped the people he saved. Basically yes he was a good man.

without a workforce he could not produce anything, therefore not make any money.

Obviously he could not protect them once they left his factory to go to the camps to sleep, but he did his best to protect them whilst they were under his care (working in his factory).

Oskar Schindler changed by means of becoming a better person (I assume that IS what you mean by "changed") and saved hundreds of Jews from being killed at the height of WWII.

Although we don't know for sure, I can assume that Schindler changed because he was starting to notice people being killed. He said once that he could care less if they were Jewish--he just cared that they were being killed.

Schindler may have seemed a slimy guy, but he didn't want to see anyone get killed. And he was one of the few with money to do something about it.

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After seeing Jews being killed in the Warsaw Ghetto liquidation, he made a decision to work against the Nazi system. He, like others, did not realize what the Nazis' plans were. Once he saw that, he saved 1200 Jews from certain death. The remnants of that group now number more 6000 today.

Schindler, during the holocaust, bribed Nazis with alcohol and gifts to gain friends. Initially, he made friends so that he could earn money. He opened a 'pots and pans' factory and had Jews working in them. He earned money, and was able to make friends in high places in the Nazi party. At this time, he could care less about Jews. Once he realized how badly these Jews were treated (after seeing a small child get shot for no reason except being Jewish), he changed his tactics. After buying a second factory (one that sold fake bullets to save lives), he bought Jews for his factories. He kept buying these Jews, and forbid Nazi guards from harming or killing any of them, because he now owned them. He fed and protected nearly 1000 lives until the end of the war. Even though he was legally a member of the Nazi party, he was deamed a good person, and was not executed like the rest of the Nazis. He died in 1974, and remains possibly the most brave and noble men in the Holocaust, but is not very acknowledged.

Oskar Kallas died in 1946.

Sadly, Oskar Schindler had spent his entire personal fortune during the war on bribing Nazi officials and buying food for his Jewish workers. His factory was situated in what was to become Communist-dominated Polish territory, so after the war he choose to move to West Germany. There, he received $ 15,000 for his troubles, although his expenses during the war came to well over a million dollars.

An effort to start a farm in Argentine failed. He returned to Germany and had to live on support payments from the Jews he had saved during the war. He died in 1974 and was buried in Jerusalem.

Oskar Schindler died on October 9, 1974 at the age of 66.

Oskar Fischinger died on January 31, 1967, in Hollywood, California, USA of heart attack.

Yes, he is. He died on October 9th, 1974. He was 66 years old.

Yes. He did it at a party to aggravate the Nazis

He saved millions of Jewish peoples lives!

Oskar Schindler was a German businessman who saved hundreds of Jewish people from being murdered by Nazis during World War II. He was married, but did not have children by his wife. He did have a boy and girl by a woman he had an affair with, though.

Oskar Schindler has an younger sister named Elfriede

It is Jewish tradition to put stones on one's grave.