Among the many sites on Mount Zion is a Protestant cemetery established by Presbyterian missionaries in the 19th-century. The cemetery is the final resting place of missionaries from Britain and the United States, but among their remains is also the grave of Oskar Schindler, the German businessman credited with rescuing some 1,200 Jews from the hands of the Nazis in World War II; and Flinders Petrie, who is considered the father of modern archaeology.
Schindler’s grave, which was commissioned by some of the Jews he saved, is in the lower tier of the cemetery and is distinguishable by the many stones placed on it by Jewish people who come to pay homage.
