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DATE: WEDNESDAY, December 1, 1993                   TAG: 9312010095
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

NAZI `HERO' HONORED FOR SAVING JEWS

Oskar Schindler was an unlikely hero to survivors of the Holocaust. He was a Nazi.

But Schindler saved 1,300 Jews by feigning loyalty to Germany and instead running a fake munitions factory where he protected Jewish workers. If not for his factory, the workers would have died in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

His actions were honored Tuesday with a posthumous medal from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. He died in 1974.

Three of those Schindler saved watched as his widow, Emilie Schindler, accepted the museum's highest honor from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The award coincides with the release this month of director Steven Spielberg's new film about the rescues, "Schindler's List."

"The world must learn that there was a choice, there was an option to remain human and to act in a decent manner," said Miles Lerman, chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council.

by CNB