deported to Nazi concentration camps. Nine months after she was arrested, Anne Frank died of typhus in March of 1945 at Bergen-Belsen. She was fifteen years old. Luckily all that happened to Miep and to Henk was that their lives were shattered. After two long years hiding the two families have gone to waste. This couple was very different than other people that hid Jews. They were never killed. There are many examples of people who hid Jews to save their lives. Many were caught and others were not. There are people like Miep and Henk who tried to save two families but there are also whole cities that helped to hide hundred's of Jews.i
             Another example of a non-Jew risking their lives to save Jews is a businessman named Oskar Schindler. Oskar Schindler was more of a protector of the Jews during the Holocaust than a resistor. Schindler was born in Svitavy in the Sudetenland, and moved to Krakow in late 1939 in the wake of the German occupation of Poland. There he took to previously Jewish owned firms dealing with the manufacturing of enamel kitchenware products one of which he operated directly for the Nazis. Later, Schindler established his own factory in Zablocie, outside of Krakow, in which he then employed mainly Jewish workers, therefore protecting them from deportation. When the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto began in 1943, many Jews were sent to the Plaszow labor camp most known for the brutality of its commandant, Amon Goeth. Schindler used his connections with high-ranking Nazi officials in the Armaments Administration to set up a branch of the Plaszow camp in his factory for some nine hundred Jewish workers. These actions spared hundreds from the horrors of the Plaszow camp. In October 1944, with the approach of the Russian army, Schindler was granted permission to reestablish his factory to make armaments in Brunnlitz and take the Jewish workers from Zablocie with him. In doing this, Schindler saved seven hundred men ...