"He who saves a single life saves the whole world." 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... more info
A must read book. Buy it!!!! 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. 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.
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A must read... 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... more info
