Could Oskar Schindler have rescued the Jews of the Warsaw or Lodz Ghetto?

Could the efforts of Oskar Schindler have succeeded in Warsaw or Lodz? Could he have started and maintained a factory in Warsaw utilizing Jews as "essential war workers"? Could Schindler have wined, dined and bribed the SS enough to keep his Jewish workers from taking a one way train ride to Treblinka? Could a Schindler factory survive the Ghetto uprising? Could Schindler get his workers out of Warsaw before the City wide revolt in 1944?

If Schindler went to Lodz could he deal with Chaim Rumkowski?
 
He was pushing it already IOTL.It's a wonder he was able to do what he has done already,I really don't think he could have done more.
 
If Schindler had taken over a factory in Warsaw would the Jewish resistance have used it as a way to get weapons in and perhaps people out and would they have warned Schindler? On the other hand could the resistance have staged an uprising in the factory as a diversion or perhaps kill more Nazis.
 
If Schindler had taken over a factory in Warsaw would the Jewish resistance have used it as a way to get weapons in and perhaps people out and would they have warned Schindler? On the other hand could the resistance have staged an uprising in the factory as a diversion or perhaps kill more Nazis.

Probably not, Schindler managed what he did by staying off the German Radar. As long as the SS thought he was running a slave camp and efficent factory he was given a pass. If he tries to get tens or hundred's of thousands of jews under his control then at first other factory owners will complain, then the SS will investigate what the hell he wants them for. At that point the truth comes out and Schindler goes to the wall and the Jews to the ovens. He barely held things together as it was and absent a corrdinated effort by a mass group he saved about as many lives as one man possibly could.
 
From Thomas Keneally's book, I gathered some Nazis thought Oskar was infected with a virus, but they still liked him! I suspect this does not apply to most SS officers.

All the same, I was surprised at how open he was. in just kind of a matter-of-fact way.

And Oskar had a party line which seemed to work: these are my workers, they're skilled workers, we're used to each other, etc. And he kind of skillfully undersold this.
 
Top