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Schindler's Ark

by Thomas Keneally · 1982

Biography & Memoir · ranked #15 in category

The documented story of Oskar Schindler — a German industrialist, bon vivant and opportunist who used his Kraków factory to save over 1,200 Polish Jews from extermination, spending his entire wartime fortune bribing SS officers. Keneally's Booker Prize-winning novel-as-biography draws on interviews with Schindler's Jews and presents an unlikely hero who was also flawed, unfaithful and self-serving.

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Category
Biography & Memoir
First published
1982 · 1980s
Author
Thomas Keneally
Standing
Essential Read

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