. . "1939 - 1945" . . "Schindler's list (Keneally, Thomas)" . . "Schindler's list." . . "Schindler's Ark (Keneally)" . . "Large type books" . . "2008." . . "Rettung." . . "World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue" . . "Authors, Australian 20th century v Biography." . . "Righteous Gentiles Poland Biography." . . "Schindler's list (Motion picture)" . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . "The tale of the encounter that propelled the author to write about Oskar Schindler."@en . . . "Searching for Schindler : a memoir" . "Searching for Schindler : a memoir"@en . "\"In 1980 Tom Keneally was in Beverley Hills returning from the Sorrento film festival where The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith had been showing. Looking for a new briefcase, Tom meets the Polish-Jewish Leopold Pfefferberg Page aka Poldek and his life for the next few years is taken over by this charismatic and driven man and the story he wants shared. \"It's a story for you, I swear,\" he says to Tom. The story is of course that of The all-drinking, all-screwing, all black-marketeering Nazi. But to me he was Jesus Christ, Oskar Schindler\" Poldek shared with Tom the story of Schindlers Ark which went on to win the Booker Prize and ultimately to become the Oscar award-winning film Schindlers List.\"--Provided by publisher."@en . . . . . . "In 1980 Tom Keneally was in Beverley Hills returning from the Sorrento film festival where The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith had been showing. Looking for a new briefcase, Tom meets the Polish-Jewish Leopold Pfefferberg Page aka Poldek and his life for the next few years is taken over by this charismatic and driven man and the story he wants shared. \"It's a story for you, I swear,\" he says to Tom. The story is of course that of Oskar Schindler. And Poldek shared with Tom the story of Schindler's Ark which went on to win the Booker Prize and ultimately to become the Oscar award-winning film Schindler's List. Schindler, the ruined Catholic hedonist, had something ambiguous about him that appealed to the ex-seminarian Tom Keneally who still struggled with his own Catholicism and his humanist view of the world. Oskar showed that virtue, regardless of race, creed or religion, emerged where it would. Searching for Schindler is very much Tom's journey, he reflects on his early days as a writer with quite a bit of success - but no confidence - and how this book, the people he met, and the film it became, changed his life. Not ready to give up the story of Schindler and his Jews after the enormous success of the book, Tom is there for the film adaptation and on set for the filming. Filled with stories of Steven Spielberg, Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes and many other well-known characters."@en . . . . . . "Biography"@en . "Biography" . . . "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "Advance copies (Publishing)"@en . . . . . . . . . . . "Searching for Schindler" . . "Herinneringen (vorm)" . . . "Searching for Schindler"@en . "Searching for Schindler a memoir"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Keneally tells the tale of the unlikely encounter that propelled him to write about Oskar Schindler, and of the impact of his extraordinary account on people around the world. Australian writer Keneally met Leopold \"Poldek\" Pfefferberg, the owner of a Beverly Hills luggage shop, in 1981. Poldek, a Polish Jew and a Holocaust survivor, had a tale he wanted the world to know. He convinced Keneally to relate the incredible story of \"the all-drinking, all-screwing, all-black-marketeering Nazi, Oskar Schindler. But to me he was Jesus Christ.\" This is the chronicle of Keneally's pursuit of a fascinating and paradoxical hero: traveling throughout the United States, Germany, Israel, Poland, and Austria, Keneally and Poldek interviewed people who had known Schindler and uncovered their indelible memories. This is also the story of Keneally's growth as a writer, the making of the film, and the enormous success of his portrait of Oskar Schindler.--From publisher description." . "Fiction"@en . . . . . . "DAISY (computer file)" . . "Authors, Australian 21st century v Biography." . . "Holocaust." . . "Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)" . . "LITERARY CRITICISM European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh." . . "Boeken." . . "Doubleday," . . "1900 - 2099" . . "1900 - 1999" . . "Holocaust survivors--Biography" . . "Juden." . . "Authors, Australian 20th century Biography." . . "Authors, Australian." . . "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Literary." . .