This is an I-Heart podcast.

This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, the show where America is the star

and the American people, coming to you from

the city where the West begins, Fort Worth, Texas. It's been said that a hero is someone who is

brave just a little bit longer. Oscar Schindler was an unlikely World War II hero, a member of the

Nazi party, a war profiteer, and a husband who strayed

and drank to excess. But this man saved 1,200 people from certain death in German Nazi

concentration camps. Schindler employed these prisoners in his enamel and ammunition factories

where he provided washroom as dentists, grocery, laundry,

cobbler, tailors, and medical care.

At the height of the war,

Schindler amassed a fortune,

and he spent all of it

to save these Jews.

What you're about to hear

are the stories of Schindler's survivors.

Here's Greg Engler. Here's Greg Hingler.

We think we know what goodness looks like. It looks like Gandhi, skinny and dressed in his handmade loincloth, or mother Teresa, drab and subdued in her nun's habit,

goodness does not drink, womanize, and wear Nazi patches, or does it?

In his acclaimed international bestseller's Ark,

author Thomas Keneally tells us that one of the most

common sentiments of the Schindler Jews is still, I don't know why he did it. Caneli drops a hint

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