Schindler's List By Thomas Keneally

By Thomas Keneally:

During the Holocaust at the German concentration camp near Plaszow, thousands of Jews lost their lives at the hands of the Nazis. More than a thousand others were spared thanks to a womanizing, heavy-drinking, German-Catholic industrialist and Nazi Party member named Oskar Schindler. One of the most remarkable narratives of the Holocaust, Schindler's List masterfully recreates the daring exploits of Schindler, who used his enormous fortune to build a factory near the concentration camp and his influence to save the lives of more than 1,300 Jews. It is an absorbing, suspenseful, and moving account of Schindler's legacy of life.

Read by Ben Kingsley

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To 1200 Jews a womanizing, heavy-drinking, German-Catholic industrialist and Nazi Party member named Oskar Schindler was all that stood between them and death at the hands of the Nazis. He was a man all too human, full of flaws like the rest of us. The unlikeliest of all role models. An ordinary man who answered the call of conscience. He remained true to 'his' Jews, the workers he always referred to as 'my children'. He rose to the highest level of humanity and gave them a second chance at life. He spent millions to protect them, everything he possessed, and eventually risked his life in desperate rescue attempts. Even on the days when the air was black with the ashes from bodies on fire, there was hope in Crakow because Oskar Schindler was there.

In those years, millions of Jews were exposed to ruthless slaughter in the Nazi death camps, but Schindler's Jews miraculously survived. Today there are more than 8,500 descendants of his Jews living in the US, Europe and Israel.

Oskar Schindler died in Hildesheim in Germany October 9, 1974. He wanted to be buried in Jerusalem. As he said: My children are here ..

He died penniless, but he earned the everlasting gratitude of his Jews. He was mourned on four continents and generations will remember him for what he did.

A story to bear witness to goodness, love and compassion, an inspiring evidence of human decency.

But Oskar Schindler not only saved the lives of 1200 Jews - he saved our faith in humanity ...

- Louis Bülow

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Rosanna January 17, 2011 at 9:52am

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- Rosanna > Rosanna January 17, 2011 at 10:03am
  
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  To 1200 Jews a womanizing, heavy-drinking, German-Catholic industrialist and Nazi Party member named Oskar Schindler was all that stood between them and death at the hands of the Nazis. He was a man all too human, full of flaws like the rest of us. The unlikeliest of all role models. An ordinary man who answered the call of conscience. He remained true to 'his' Jews, the workers he always referred to as 'my children'. He rose to the highest level of humanity and gave them a second chance at life. He spent millions to protect them, everything he possessed, and eventually risked his life in desperate rescue attempts. Even on the days when the air was black with the ashes from bodies on fire, there was hope in Crakow because Oskar Schindler was there.
  
  In those years, millions of Jews were exposed to ruthless slaughter in the Nazi death camps, but Schindler's Jews miraculously survived. Today there are more than 8,500 descendants of his Jews living in the US, Europe and Israel.
  
  Oskar Schindler died in Hildesheim in Germany October 9, 1974. He wanted to be buried in Jerusalem. As he said: My children are here ..
  
  He died penniless, but he earned the everlasting gratitude of his Jews. He was mourned on four continents and generations will remember him for what he did.
  
  A story to bear witness to goodness, love and compassion, an inspiring evidence of human decency.
  
  But Oskar Schindler not only saved the lives of 1200 Jews - he saved our faith in humanity ...
  
  - Louis Bülow
  
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- Rosanna > Rosanna January 17, 2011 at 10:12am
  
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- Rosanna > Rosanna January 17, 2011 at 10:25am
  
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- 2881hg0spvg7i > Rosanna January 19, 2011 at 4:28pm
  
  A Wonderful Post!!! Thank You so much Rosanna.
  
  Bobbie
  
  More ww2 please.
- Rosanna > 2881hg0spvg7i January 19, 2011 at 5:35pm
  
  You're welcome..
  
  Where ya been?
  
  More WW2?..ok...let me check..

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