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Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally, which tells the true story of the actions of the German businessman Oskar Schindler during the Holocaust. When the Nazis occupied Poland during the Second World War, the country’s Jews were first forced into ghettos, then deported to concentration camps where few survived. However, Schindler offered hope to thousands of Polish Jews by employing them in his factories, at considerable personal risk, to save them from deportation and almost certain death. The Australian author Thomas Keneally brings his story to life in this thrilling novel, which won the 1982 Man Booker Prize and was adapted into the Academy Award-winning film Schindler’s List.
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THOMAS KENEALLY
AUSTRALIAN NOVELIST AND PLAYWRIGHT
Born in Sydney in 1935.Notable works:Searching for Schindler (2007), memoirThe Daughters of Mars (2012), novelCrimes of the Father (2016), novelThe Australian novelist Thomas Keneally is best known for the novel Schindler’s Ark, later adapted into the critically acclaimed film Schindler’s List. Although he initially trained for a Catholic priesthood at St Patrick’s Seminary, Manly, Keneally later left without being ordained, and instead worked as a schoolteacher, before eventually becoming a novelist and lecturer at the University of New England.
Many of his works use historical material as their basis, and he has shown an interest in moral dilemmas, as well as the conflict between an individual and authority. His writing has been described as leaning towards melodrama, but nonetheless holds a place in both the Australian and international mainstream. Through Schindler’s Ark, he shone a light on the bravest people in Europe’s darkest moment, and in doing so encouraged people to remember both those who suffered in the Holocaust and those who did what they could to lessen the suffering.
SCHINDLER’S ARK
THE WORST OF MANKIND AND THE BEST OF HUMANITY
Genre: novelReference edition: Keneally, T. (2007) Schindler’s Ark. London: Serpentine Publishing.1stedition: 1982Themes: World War II, Holocaust, denial, dehumanisation, power, defianceSchindler’s Ark is based on the true story of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved over a thousand Jews from concentration camps like Auschwitz during World War II. Thomas Keneally was only prompted to write the novel after being convinced by a salesman in Beverly Hills, LA – who was in fact one of the Jews saved by Schindler, Leopold Pfefferberg, mentioned in the book. Although very readable, the novel does not hide the brutality of history, and has been cited as restoring faith in humanity. By recounting the well-known events of the war though personal eye-witness accounts and retellings, it gives attention to the individuals affected by the war whose voices would not be heard otherwise. In 1982, Schindler’s Ark won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and the novel was later adapted by Steven Spielberg into the award-winning film Schindler’s List.
