The acclaimed bestselling classic of Holocaust literature, winner of the Booker Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction, and the inspiration for the classic film–“a masterful account of the growth of the human soul” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). A stunning novel based on the true story of how German war profiteer and factory director Oskar Schindler came to save more Jews from … save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II. In this milestone of Holocaust literature, Thomas Keneally, author of Daughter of Mars, uses the actual testimony of the Schindlerjuden–Schindler’s Jews–to brilliantly portray the courage and cunning of a good man in the midst of unspeakable evil.more
This story evoked many emotions! The holocaust still remains one of the most horrific and brutal historific truths in my opinion. It is hard to believe that anyone survived the death camps. An amazing read, hard to put down and one you will never forget.
This is the fascinating story of Oskar Schindler, a hedonistic young German, a womanizer and a lover of fine alcohol. In 1939 Schindler followed the German occupying forces to Cracow in Poland and tried to fit in as a German industrialist and make him a fortune. He quickly became fond of various elements in the Nazi civilian and military …
Most people have at least heard of this book, or the movie that was made from it, about the war profiteer turned savior of over a thousand Jews during WWII. I watched the movie in high school and then tried to read the book, but gave up due to how long and dry it was. That’s probably the biggest mark against the book for most people–it’s slow and …