Schindler saved 10 times as many Jews from Holocaust

A Jewish immigrant to Bolivia who made a fortune mining tin saved 10 times as many lives during the Holocaust than the star of Oscar-winning Hollywood blockbuster "Schindler's List," a journalist and writer told AFP.

Oskar Schindler was turned into a household name by the 1993 Hollywood epic directed by Steven Spielberg, telling the tale of the German industrialist who saved more than 1,000 Jews by employing them in his businesses in Nazi-occupied Poland.

But according to Veronica Ormachea, Moritz Hochschild saved 10,000 Jews from Adolf Hitler's gas chambers during World War II.