
Schindler ultimately saved more than a thousand Jews from Hitler's extermination camps, by exploiting his friendships with SS officers, the Wehrmacht and military intelligence. At a time when Jews were being despatched to the death camp of Matthausen and Auschwitz, Schindler obtained permission remove his personal camp and its inmates from Cracow to as part of Czechoslovakia. When 300 of his women workers found themselves in Auschwitz, in barracks adjoining the gas ovens, Schindler eventually succeeded in getting them out - the only such shipment out of Auschwitz in the history of the war.