Summary of Schindler’s List
“Schindler’s List”, originally published as “Schindler’s Ark”, tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved more than a thousand Jews from the Nazi gas chambers by employing them in his factories, primarily in Krakow, Poland. At the end of the war, Schindler bribed the Nazis to transfer his factory and workers to Brünnlitz (Brněnec in the Czech Republic), thus sparing them from execution. Schindler is depicted as a war profiteer and an opportunist, but also as a righteous man who saved many lives during the Second World War.
Reasons to read Schindler’s List
Thomas Keneally’s novel “Schindler’s Ark” was the basis for Steven Spielberg’s award-winning film of 1993. The novel itself is an interesting and highly acclaimed book and winner of the Booker Prize in 1982. Thomas Keneally is an Australian author known primarily for his historical novels. “Schindler’s Ark” is based on the testimonies and files of a Holocaust survivor who was saved by Oskar Schindler and retained the original list of Jews saved by Schindler.
Setting: Krakow, Auschwitz (Poland) & Brünnlitz (Czech Republic)
Original title: Schindler’s Ark
Year of publication: 1982
Nr of pages: 416
