Rescuer Oskar Schindler plants a tree on the Avenue of the Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem, Israel's national institution of Holocaust commemoration. May 8, 1962, Israel.
In the 1960s, Schindler was invited by Yad Vashem to plant a tree in his honor. His planting ceremony took place on May 8, 1962. In 1993, Oskar and Emilie Schindler were named Righteous Among the Nations, non-Jewish individuals honored by Yad Vashem for risking their lives to aid Jews during the Holocaust.
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