WARSAW, Poland — About two dozen Holocaust survivors, including some saved by German industrialist Oskar Schindler, will mark the 65th anniversary of the Nazi's liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Krakow.

In just two days in March 1943, German soldiers emptied the ghetto of its estimated 16,000 Jewish residents, shipping them to a forced-labor camp in nearby Plaszow and to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, where most were killed in the gas chambers.

Those left behind were executed, with some 2,000 Jews killed. By the end of World War II, just 3,000 Jews who lived in the ghetto survived.

On Sunday, about 25 survivors — some returning to Poland for the first time since the war's end — will march through the Podgorze district in Krakow to the grounds of the former camp in Plaszow where around 8,000 people, including Poles, perished during the war.

Just 60 of the Jews Schindler saved are alive, and a dozen are expected for the march, said Andrzej Skotnicki, who helped bring back Schindler's Jews for the anniversary events and recently published a book on Jews from Krakow that were saved by Schindler.

The Plaszow camp was the setting for Steven Spielberg's 1993 Oscar-winning film "Schindler's List," which chronicled the German businessman's efforts to shield more than 1,000 Jews from Nazi death camps by hiring them to work in his Krakow factory.

Since the release of Spielberg's film, tourists to Krakow have sought out the place where Schindler kept the Jews, claiming their work was essential to the survival of his metal works factory.