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Last update - 21:27 12/03/2008 Schindler Jews to mark 65 years since Krakow ghetto liquidation By The Associated Press Tags: Holocaust, Krakow  A handful of Holocaust survivors, including some saved by German industrialist Oskar Schindler, will mark the 65th anniversary this weekend of the Nazi's destruction of the Jewish ghetto in Krakow. In just two days in March 1943, German soldiers emptied the ghetto of its estimated 16,000 Jewish residents, shipping them to a forced-labor camp in nearby Plaszow and to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where most were killed in the gas chambers. Advertisement Those left behind were executed, with some 2,000 Jews killed. By the war's end, just 3,000 Jews who lived in the ghetto survived. On Sunday, about 25 survivors - some returning to Poland for the first time since the war's end - will march through the Podgorze district in Krakow to the grounds of the former camp in Plaszow where around 8,000 people, including Poles, perished during World War II. The Plaszow camp was the setting for Steven Spielberg's 1993 Oscar-winning film Schindler's List, which chronicled the German businessman's efforts to shield more than 1,000 Jews from Nazi death camps by hiring them to work in his Krakow factory. "Just 60 of the Jews Schindler saved are alive and a dozen are expected for the march," said Andrzej Skotnicki, who helped bring back Schindler's Jews for the anniversary events and recently published a book on Jews from Krakow that were saved by Schindler. "They lost many members of their families, so its not easy for them," Skotnicki told The Associated Press. Since the release of Spielberg's film, hundreds of tourists to Krakow have sought out the place where Schindler kept the emaciated, frostbitten Jews, claiming their work was essential to the survival of his metal works factory, where prisoners produced enameled pots and pans. Schindler spent his fortune feeding the Jews he saved. After the war, he emigrated to Argentina with his wife, Emilie, but returned to Germany in 1958 where he died in 1974. He was buried in Jerusalem at his own request. 'There were other Holocausts' 'British Oskar Schindler' in running for Nobel peace prize Poland won't sue author of book on post-WWII anti-Semitism Bookmark to del.icio.us   Bring the house down Dichter to police: Demolish home of J'lem yeshiva terrorist. Media frenzy Israel to boycott Al-Jazeera TV, claiming incitement to terror.   1.   65 th Anniversary 05:12  |  Michael Walsingham 13/03/08

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