Subsequently, although his wife, Emilie, joined him in Krakow during the war they were left penniless by the end of it. Using his money to bribe German officials and to save his workers, he considered the lives of the unfortunate more deserving of his wealth than himself. The day succeeding the end of the war, using what little they had left Oskar and his wife fled to Argentina to avoid being prosecuted for his crimes against the Nazi's and his work with the Abwehr as a spy. For over a decade of his time there he pursued a career in farming, but to no avail. He declared bankruptcy during the year 1957. After this, he decided to leave his wife and travel to West Germany to look for better business opportunities, all of which failed to leave him almost broke. He lived out the rest of his life moving from place to place never able to find a steady stream of money, living off of donations by the Schindlerjuden or Schindler Jews, the workers whom he saved during the war. This shows how much he meant to them based off of how much he sacrificed to allow them to be free again.
In 1962 he was named a Righteous Gentile by the Yad Vashem - World Holocaust Remembrance Center- a title given to those of which are not Jews that had helped to save the lives of many of them during the Holocaust. After his death in 1974 at the age of 66, he was taken to a Catholic cemetery on Mount Zion in Jerusalem where he was to be buried. Although the story of Oskar Schindler wasn't well known to the public very much, Steven Spielberg's adaptation of the story made in 1993 based on the list of Jews he had saved, promptly name Schindler's List, brought to light the true nature of this man to the world to show those of which still had humanity at this time. The remaining Schindler Jews and their children still visit his grave from time to time today as a reminder of what it means to care more for others than yourself and to show gratitude to the man that allowed them to have a real life again.