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| Schindler's List | 
 enlarge | Author: Thomas Keneally
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 20271
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 432
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0340606517
EAN: 9780340606513
ASIN: 0340606517
Publication Date: February 17, 1994
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 "He who saves a single life saves the whole world." June 21, 2008
Thomas Keneally's Booker Prize-winning, fictionalized biography of Oskar Schindler memorializes a member of the Nazi party who endangered his own life for four years, working privately to save Jews from the death camps. A playboy who loved fine wines and foods, he was also a smooth-talking manipulator (and briber) of Nazi officials, as well as a clever entrepreneur, already on his way to stunning financial success by the early days of World War II. Nowhere in Schindler's background are there any hints that he would one day become the savior of eleven hundred Jewish men and women.
While the excellent film of this novel concentrates on the dangers Schindler and "his Jews" faced daily throughout the war, Keneally, well known for his depictions of characters acting under stress, concentrates on the character of Oskar Schindler himself, beginning with his childhood and teen years. As he explores Schindler's transformation from war profiteer and "passive" Nazi to a man willing to use his fortune to ensure the salvation of his factory workers, Keneally reveals a man of enormous courage and derring-do, a man who thrives by living on the edge.
Presenting episodes from the lives of some of the "Schindlerjuden," Keneally highlights their humanity, creating moments of high drama. Characters such as Leopold Pfefferberg and factory manager Itzhak Stern move in and out of the narrative, illustrating graphically the extent to which their lives depend upon Oskar Schindler, while the constant intrusion of sadistic SS commandant Amon Goeth in Schindler's life shows the fragility of their security. Other stories, of people who just missed being saved by Schindler, highlight the arbitrariness of fate--chance--in their (and our) lives.
Throughout the novel, Keneally stresses the importance of bearing witness and testifying to the atrocities. In one of the novel's most moving passages, Schindler and his lover ride horses to a ridge where they can view the expulsion of the Jews from the Krakow ghetto, watching, horrified, as old or crippled laggards are murdered in front of Jewish children. "They permitted witnesses because they believed the witnesses, all, would perish, too." Later, Schindler works with a Zionist rescue organization, secretly going to Budapest to testify about the hidden death camps.
Schindler's heroism, his goodness within a country committed to the extermination of other humans, his recognition that witnesses are essential, and his ability to use the system in order to hasten its end bring this story of one man's fight against the Holocaust to life. But it is Keneally's incorporation of Schindler's faults and excesses which gives texture and depth to this portrait and make Schindler a character with whom the reader can identify. Keneally's meticulous research and his portrait of Schindler after the war, beloved by Jews but at loose ends personally and professionally, make this novel an unforgettable study of character and time. Mary Whipple
A must read book. Buy it!!!! June 21, 2008
Best holocaust book I have read to date. Very well written and informative. Book does differ from the film with obvious detail that you would expect. Read the Pianist after this but did not come close to this one.
Buy it!! Read it!! Remember!!
 For content and accuracy, a must read. March 18, 2008
For content and accuracy this is a must read as it conveys far more than a film could ever attempt to do. We learn about the characters backgrounds, aspirations, motives and shortcomings in a meaningful and powerful presentation.My only critique on the negative side is that being of modest educational background and partially dixlectic, I had to have a dictionary handy throughout as the author used hard to understand words that seemed to be there simply for the sake of being highbrow.
If you read the book "Facing the lion" " Memoirs of a young girl in Nazi Europe" by Simone Arnold Liebster you will see the difference in fluency.
That said and having visited Krakow and Auchwitz-Birkenau only 2 weeks ago,again I say, it is a must read for everyone about one of the darkest periods in human history.
A must read... August 16, 2006
I agree with another review, in that I wasn't fond of the style of writing. At the begining I found it difficult to get into for that reason, but I'm glad I continued.
I consider this book important to read for two reasons. The first is that we need to learn about and remember the atrocities that were committed during the Holocaust to insure that they're never repeated. The second is that we need to remember and celebrate the ordinary people, like Oskar and Emilie Schindler, who risked their lives to save others.
Something I really liked about the book was that it was very honest - it didn't try to portray Oskar Schindler as a saint. For example, his constant infidelity is documented along with all his good deeds.
Schindler's List July 6, 2005
Schindler's List is a book, which not only portrays the truth of the war years but also the feelings and actions of the amazing characters that persevered with life through them. This book should be read by everyone sometime in their life, it is gripping, compelling and moving, everything a good book needs mixed into one and gives a deep and thoughtful insight into the world that these people put up with spectacularly and proudly. A brilliant read and deserves a full 5 stars!
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