Schindler Jews Today - Credits for 'Schindler's List' (with instrumental) Postscript: Oskar Schindler failed at his marriage and several businesses after the war. In 1958, he was declared a righteous person by the council of the Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, and invited to plant a tree in the Avenue of the Righteous. It grows there still. In memory of the more than six million Jews murdered.