Soldiers would cut off their side curls in the street to make a mockery of them. Jews were being forced to register and wear a yellow Star of David in order to distinguish themselves from the rest of society. Oscar Schindler acquainted himself with power members of the Nazi party in order to build up favors in case he ever needed them. Over 1200 Jew’s lives were saved by Oscar Schindler, a business man from Czechoslovakia. This story tells about the lives of the Jewish people in Poland during WWII and how by one man. Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally is a true demonstration of courage and integrity that people should have followed during WWII. Thomas Keneally won the Man Booker Prize for Schindler’s List in 1982. Thomas Keneally’s Schindler’s List (or Schindler’s Ark) is an account of how the Nazi member and industrialist Oskar Schindler rescued over a thousand Jews from very probable death from at Auschwitz, by protecting them as workers at his enamel ware factory. This is the extraordinary story of Oskar Schindler, who risked his life to protect Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland and who was transformed by the war into a man with a mission, a compassionate angel of mercy.īook Review: Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became a saviour. In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. Book Summary: Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
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