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1) Schindler's list

Author

Keneally, Thomas

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Book, Large Print

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A mature novel that is a fictionalized treatment of the life of the German industrialist who saved the lives of many Jews during World War II. Schindler's List is a remarkable work of fiction based on the true story of German industrialist and war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who, confronted with the horror of the extermination camps, gambled his life and fortune to rescue 1,300 Jews from the gas chambers. Working with the actual testimony of Schindler's...

2) The boy on the wooden box: how the impossible became possible ... on Schindler's list

Author

Leyson, Leon

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International Jewish Day (August 2, 2021)
Jewish American Heritage

Formats

Book, CD

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""Not even the scariest of fairy tales could have prepared me for the monsters I would confront while just a boy of ten ... or for the hero, disguised as a monster himself, who would save my life." Leon Leyson loved playing on the Krakow streetcars with his friends and tagging along after his older brothers ... Then, suddenly, German soldiers were: In his country. In his city. In his home. Seemingly overnight, the life he knew vanished. The Third...

3) Schindler's List

Pub. Date

1993.

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The story of a Catholic war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who risked his life and went bankrupt in order to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps. He employed Jews in his crockery factory manufacturing goods for the German army. At the same time he tries to stay solvent with the help of a Jewish accountant and negotiates business with a vicious Nazi commandant who enjoys shooting Jews as target practice from the balcony...

4) Oskar Schindler: righteous gentile

Author

Roberts, Jeremy

Series

Holocaust biographies

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Discusses the actions of Oskar Schindler, a gentile businessman in Krakow during World War II, in saving over one thousand Jews who might otherwise been killed in the Holocaust.

5) Schindler's Legacy: True Stories of the List Survivors

Author

Brecher, Elinor J

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Thirty individuals saved by Oskar Schindler tell of their personal experiences during World War II and what their lives are like today as survivors of the Holocaust.

6) My survival: a girl on Schindler's List : a memoir

Author

Finder, Rena

Pub. Date

[2020]

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Jewish American Heritage

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"The astonishing true story of a girl who survived the Holocaust thanks to Oskar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame. Rena Finder was only eleven when the Nazis forced her and her family -- along with all the other Jewish families -- into the ghetto in Krakow, Poland. Rena worked as a slave laborer with scarcely any food and watched as friends and family were sent away. Then Rena and her mother ended up working for Oskar Schindler, a German businessman...

7) Oskar Schindler

Author

Crowe, David M

Pub. Date

2004

8) Oskar Schindler and his list: the man, the book, the film, the Holocaust and its survivors

Pub. Date

[1995]

9) Schindler's List: c1993/2004

Author

Spielberg, Steven

Pub. Date

1993.

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10) Oskar Schindler: saving Jews from the Holocaust

Author

Byers, Ann

Series

Holocaust heroes and Nazi criminals

Pub. Date

c2005

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Presents a biography of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who risked his life and fortune to save over 1,200 Jews from Nazi execution, including information on how he joined the Nazi party to make money, traveled to Poland to start a new business, and ultimately used his factory as a shelter.