Historical Fiction · DarkA German factory owner saves over a thousand Jewish workers from the death camps
Schindler's Ark
The true story of Oskar Schindler's list
Schindler's Ark tells how Oskar Schindler used his factories in occupied Poland to protect Jewish workers from deportation to the death camps. Keneally wrote it as a novel based on interviews with survivors. It was adapted as Steven Spielberg's 1993 film Schindler's List.
More about this book
Who
Oskar Schindler and the Jewish workers he protected.
World
Kraków and the surrounding area during the Second World War.
What makes it different
It is a novel built on the accounts of survivors.
Feel
Sober and gripping.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Behind the book
Keneally was moved to write the book after meeting Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor who had been saved by Schindler, in a Beverly Hills luggage shop.
Source: Wikipedia
Further reading
- Schindler's ArkWikipedia