This book
is ostensibily a documentary about how Tom Keneally discovered
the remarkable story of Oscar Schindler and then his research across
three continents to piece together testimonials from survivors of the
Holocast. These testimonials came from people who knew and
were
saved from certain death at the hands of the Nazis during World War 2.
From the research came the book Schindlers List which in turn
lead to the Oscar winning movie of the same name.
This is also a part biography of one of
those survivors, a Polish
Jew, Leopold Pfefferberg Page who told the story of Schlinder to
whoever would listen. His dream that the story, which he
described as, "a
wonderful story, it is not a story for Jews but for everyone.
A story of humanity man to man" was
realised through Keneally's book and then through the the movie.
Leopold, a man of limitless energy, charm, persistence and
physical and emotional stamina formed a life long friendship with
Keneally.
Finally it is part autobiography as Keneally interweaves the
story of his life from the 1980's and his work in Eritria, his
involvment in the push for an Australian republic his many and varied
relationships with a broad specrum of society and the stresses and
strains he underwent as he wrote the book, a screenplay and its final
evolution into the movie.
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