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Schindler's List is a 1993 American epic historical period drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian. It is based on the novel Schindler's Ark by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally. Print and download in PDF or MIDI Schindler's List Theme - John Williams. Made by NoamRaanan. Print and download in PDF or MIDI Schindler's List Theme - John Williams. Made by NoamRaanan. We use cookies on this site to enhance your user experience. By clicking any link on this page you are giving your consent for us to set cookies. 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. Schindler's List is a 1993 American film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg, and based on the novel Schindler's Ark by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally.
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We meet Oskar Schindler in his hometown of Zwittau, a small industrial city in the Moravian province in the mountains of Austria, in 1908 during the Austrian Empire of Franz Josef. He, like Amon Goeth (a Viennese), is born into a Catholic family. Louisa Schindler, his mother, is a religious woman, attending church weekly and disavowing her husband's debaucherous lifestyle. Herr Hans Schindler, his father, is a staunch Austrian and owns a machinery plant, setting the seeds for Oskar's future factory. Oskar has one sister, Elfriede. However, the author notes that little is known about Schindler's childhood, other than the fact that it is quite happy and normal, despite the war and changes in empire. Because of the German influence, Schindler attends a German-speaking grammar school, learning the language like a native. Schindler is known to have many middle-class Jewish friends in...
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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 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.
A stunning novel based on the true story of how German war profiteer and factory director Oskar Schindler came to 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.
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Thomas Keneally (Author)
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Thomas Keneally began his writing career in 1964 and has published thirty-three novels since, most recently Crimes of the Father, Napoleon's Last Island, Shame and the Captives, and the New York Times bestselling The Daughters of Mars. His novels ...