Schindler’s List
Author: Thomas Keneally
Schindler’s List recreates the true story of Oskar Schindler, the Czech-born southern German industrialist who risked his life to save over 1,100 of his Jewish factory workers from the death camps in Nazi-occupied Poland. Thomas Keneally’s “documentary novel,” based on the recollections of the Schindlerjuden (Schindler’s Jews), Schindler himself, and other witnesses, is to….Read More
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