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Schindler's Listby Thomas Keneally
Synopses & ReviewsFrom Powells.com: In an engrossing account based on the testimony of those known as Schindlerjuden
(Schindler's Jews,) Thomas Keneally reconstructs the story of Oskar Schindler,
the enigmatic prison camp Direktor and German war profiteer who became
the unlikely savior of over 1,300 Holocaust Jews.
Secretly appalled by the deeds of his countrymen, Oskar Schindler set up a factory in which he sustained his workers on black-market food and protected them from deportation to death camps through his various wheelings and dealings and bribes of Party officials. Quite unexpected of a heavy-drinking, womanizing, Nazi Party industrialist, Schindler's personal risks and sacrifices showed unforgettable courage and grace to people whom evil had surrounded and systematically worked to destroy. Keneally based his narrative account on the interviews of 50 Schindler survivors and on countless testimonies and documents supplied by Yad Vashem, The Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, by various wartime associates of Schindler's, and by many of Schindler's postwar friends. In the company of Leopold Pfefferberg, one of Schindler's survivors, Keneally visited Cracow, Plaszów, Lipowa Street, Zablocie, and Auschwitz-Birkenau, places associated with Schindler's operations and therefore prominent in the book. Publisher Comments:Reissued to coincide with the release of Steven Spielberg's film of the same name from Universal Pictures, this Booker Prize-winning novel tells the true story of one remarkable man who outwitted the Nazis to save more Jews during WWII than any single person. "A masterful account of the growth of the human soul". --LA Times Book Review. Review:New York Review of BooksAn extraordinary tale...no summary can adequately convey the strategems and reverses and sudden twists of fortune...A notable achievement. Review:Simon WiesenthalA truly heroic story of the war and, like the tree planted in Oskar Schindler's honor in Jerusalem, a fitting memorial to the fight of one individual against the horror of Nazism. Review:NewsweekAn astounding story...in this case the truth is far more powerful than anything the imagination could invent. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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