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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN num: 9780671880316
ISBN number: 0671880314
Label: Touchstone
Manufacturer: Touchstone
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 400
Printing Date: December 01, 1993
Publishing house: Touchstone
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Winner of the Booker Prize
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction
Schindler's List is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who, confronted with the horror of the extermination camps, gambled his life and fortune to rescue 1,300 Jews from the gas chambers.
Working with the actual testimony of Schindler's Jews, Thomas Keneally artfully depicts the courage and shrewdness of an unlikely savior, a man who is a flawed mixture of hedonism and decency and who, in the presence of unutterable evil, transcends the limits of his own humanity.
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This book is horrendous, terrible, amazing, sympathetic, and heroic all at the same time. How humans can do this to each other is beyound me, and thankfully beyound most of us in this world. Simply breathtaking at times. Makes me really appreciate the freedoms we all share. Just read it, you won't be disappointed!
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After seeing the film of SCHINDLER'S LIST, I had the feeling that it covered so much, included and recreated so much that it wasn't necessary to read the book.
Last month, I visited Jerusalem and toured the Holocaust Museum (a profoundly disturbing experience I would recommend to everyone). I also found Oskar Schindler's grave just outside the Old City walls and saw the small stones atop the gravemarker. (There's a sidewalk subsequent to it now where the survivors filed past in the grass at the end of the film).
Now I wanted to read the book and I realized how wrong I'd been to ignore it. I finished it last night and can tell everyone: there is so much more to the story!
You will be even more blown away by Herr Direktor's wily recklessness in saving his Jews. As played in the film, Schindler makes the gradual realization of the horrors around him, breaking down at the end when the scale of the inferno hits him. In the book, Schindler knows what's happening to the Jews and he despises the SS Officers from the very beginning. Schindler constantly questions his workers about everything going on. He knew. And he did everything he could to save as many as he could from the very start of the madness.
Actually, SCHINDLER'S LIST should've been a mini-series like BAND OF BROTHERS. There was certainly enough material and you'll find that material in the book. As written, it's also very easy to see in visual terms.
Definitely read this. Like the film, I was brought to tears in the final chapters. An astonishing true story.
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This book is both enjoyable and enlightening. It details how a German industrialist Oskar Schindler managed to save the lives of 1,200 Schindlerjudens (Schindler's Jews) during the Holocaust by sheltering them very first in his enamelware factory in Zablocie, Cracow and later in his (supposedly) anti-tank shell factory in Brinnlitz, Monrovia.
I watched the movie before I read the book. While the movie succeeds beautifully in portraying the human suffering and the thin ray of hope Oskar managed to instill in his prisoners/workers, the book includes a lot more little details that readers could appreciate. For example, while this is definitely a depressing book, I find the little dark comedies of life and witticisms quite enjoyable. For example, after the war, when there was disbelief surrounding the story of Oskar's improbable rescue of the Jews, he was challenged by some journalists and was confronted with the fact that he personally knew many of the high-ranking SS officials in the Cracow region and beyond. Oskar's coolly replied: "At that stage in history, it was rather difficult to discuss the fate of Jews with the Chief Rabbi or Jerusalem."
I you enjoyed the movie, the book won't disappoint. If you haven't seen the movie or read the book, I suggest you do both.
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The book is amazing for its wealth of information and doggedness to tell the story of not only Oskar Schindler but of what life was like for the people interned in the factories and death camps. In the author's note, Keneally tells that he chose to write the story as a novel but used documentary evidence and extensive interviews for most of the exchanges and conversations and all of the events detailed in the book and made reasonable constructs of conversations where only the briefest record exists. As a novel, the storytelling is lacking--it doesn't flow well or have a strong narrative--but as a record of a truth, it is astounding.
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Because of the movie's fame, I avoided the book - thinking the movie had already provided the majority of the story. Not so.
Mixing fact with some fiction, this book recites most of the major historical events which are now covered by great and encyclodepic non-fictional accounts of the Holocaust, as well as by museums which mushroomed throughout Europe and the United States. This is a great historical perspective of the 20th century's darkest hour. Throughout the fact is a fictional story so closely tied to truth that the reader cannot tell what is not the truth.
Keneally's depiction of the oh-so-human Schindler whose great protection of a few thousand people can only be described as oh-so-saintly. Best described by his estranged but not embittered wife: "Oskar had done nothing astounding before the war and had been unexceptional since. He was fortunate, therefore, that in that short fierce era between 1939 and 1945 he had met people who summoned forth his deeper thoughts."
Nazi German historians must ask the nagging question of German efficiency having gone array in order to carry out the Holocaust. At one time in the book, Keneally asks why they wasted men, ammunition, materials and more in order to proceed to the execution of laborers with expertise. Why not use their services in servitude - like Schindler - in order to make shells, armaments and more for the cause? Free labor for the soldiers was what Schindler saw, and he made a good deal of money from this situation. But, when the Germans transformed the edict from suppression to extermination, commencing with inhumanity at the labor camp, Schindler left his capitalist instinct for his Judeo-Christian ethic and lived what can only be described as a remarkable tale.
At the war's end, he managed to have hundreds of women removed from Auschwitz for his factory. This feat unfortunately is perhaps his most unique event. "There never had been, and would not be, any other Auschwitz rescue like this one."
Excellent details to Schindler's three imprisonments, careful detail to historical events which affected the issues of Schindler and his people, as well as great story telling, make this an incredibly good book. Because the weaving of truth with fiction is totally unobservable to the eye, this is a great read.
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