In what way is Oskar Schindler important in the memoir, The Boy on the Wooden Box?

Oskar Schindler was a business man who saw the benefit of buying a factory owned by a Jewish business man as the Germans invaded Poland. Schindler bought a factory and turned it into an enamelware factory. He hired only seven Jews at the beginning of the war, but soon came to understand how his employment of these men and women was impacting their lives. Schindler began hiring more and more Jews. Schindler, under the laws of the war, did not have to pay these workers, but he provided them with two meals a day. He also treated them with respect even though doing such a thing could have led to his execution.

To the outside world, Schindler was an opportunist, a party guy, and a womanizer. However, he treated the Jews with the same respect a good man might offer to any fellow human being. Schindler called the Jews his children and he did all he could to protect them from the Holocaust. When he died, in humble conditions, Schindler was buried in Jerusalem on Mount Zion.