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Summary: To the Righteous Among the Nations
Review: This review is dedicated by a Jew and Zionist Until Death, myself! , To the Righteous among the Nations, those Gentiles who have stood by the Jewish Nation in times of travail and murder, and those who continue to stand by Jews and Israel, in these frightening and sombre times of today.Many people have wondered how the nation that gave us such great contributors to humanity, such as the Statesman Frederick the Great, the poet and writer Johan Goethe, and musicians such as Bach and Beethoven, could have allowed themselves to be led by the Satanic Adolph Hitler (may his evil name be erased from history) produced the SS and Gestapo, and allowed those evil forces to carry out the Holocaust against 6 million Jewish men, women and children, as well as millions of Roma, disabled people , Slavs and Armenians. An yet we must not forget the righteous among the nations, which included Germans like Pastor Niemoller and Konrad Adenauer, who opposed the monstrous Nazi tyranny, and Oskar Schindler (and Emily Schindler) among others, who put their own lives on the line to save Jewish lives. Oskar Schindler was a maverick Sudeten German industrialist, who put his life and livelihood on the line to save 6 000 Jews from the Nazi death machine. Unlike the move "Schindler's List", in this book we read something of the world before and after World War II and the Holocaust (Shoah). Hence we see something of the anti-Semitism of the Catholic Church, and how the centuries of Catholic poison against the Jewish people, in some ways paved the way for the horrors of the Shoah (as well as having caused untold suffering and death to Jews through the centuries - since Roman times! -and it continues to cause suffering and death today to Jews when the Catholic Church sides with Palestinian terrorists against innocent Israeli Jewish women and children! In 1929 Oskar Schindler married Emilie, a German speaking Catholic girl (who would prove to have a heart of gold, but would be treated shabbily by Oskar). From her girlhood Emilie would have a close friendship with the daughter of the local Jewish storekeeper in her village, Rita Reiff. On a visit to Emile's father, the parish priest told him that it was not good , in principle , for a Catholic girl to have a friendship with a Jew. It is a testament to Emilie's character that she resisted the edict of the bigoted priest, and remained a close friend Rita's, until Rita was executed by Nazi officials, in front of the store, in 1942. It is a testament to the love and honour that Schindler would be held in by the Jews he saved and their descendents, that when this book was written by Thomas Keneally in 1982 (37 years after the war and 8 years after Oskar Schindler passed away) that a family called the C's who spread malicious rumours about Schindlers, still had to be protected by being granted anonymity by the author! Clearly the Schindlerjuden or their children or grandchildren could take revenge against the C's if the author had revealed their identity! He was not held by all Germans with such esteem after the war, and as late as the 1960's were spat out and verbally attacked on the streets of Frankfurt (but more of that later). Just as there have always been a handful of righteous Gentiles, so too there have always been Jews who have acted in ways that have brought destruction on their own people.
The Judenrat (The Nazi puppet councils of Jews) that helped the Nazis oppress their own people, where mainly made up of secular intellectuals, as are the leftist Jewish traitors today, like the loathsome Noam Chomsky, who back the 'Palestinian' efforts to destroy the tiny Jewish State of Israel, and thereby subject the Jewish people to a second holocaust. Over half of all holocaust survivors today live in Israel (as do many descendants of holocaust survivors), and it would be a hideous twist of history for these too to perish in the flames of anti-Jew hatred, as they would do if Israel was destroyed by forces of evil (G-D forbid that this should ever be allowed to happen!) Towards his later life in the 1960's and early 70's Schindler would be well looked after by the Schindlerjuden in Israel (where he spent half of every year, spending the other half in Germany in poverty and loneliness), and he would choose to be buried in Jerusalem. Many Schindler Jews mourned him at his funeral in Jerusalem in 1974. While we will always remember evil enemies of our people those like Pharaoh Amalek, Haman, Torquemada, Chmielnicki, Hitler, Stalin, Gaddafi Arafat, Edward Said and Chomsky (may their souls be eternally erased), we too must remember the Righteous Among the Nations such as Rahab, Emperor Darius, Pastor Niemoller, Oskar and Emilie Schindler , Reverend Pat Robertson , David Dolan and Mike Evans (may they be eternally blessed).
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Summary: A Masterpiece Of Modern Literature. Even Better Movie.
Review: Thomas Keneally's account of war profiteer Oskar Schindler's fight to save a remnant of Jews from the unspeakable evil now known as the Holocaust (originally published as "Schindler's Ark") is moving.
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Summary: schindler's list
Review: Schindler's List, the novel by Thomas Keneally, is a well researched but fictionally written book about the Holocaust. It tells the story of Oskar Schindler, who is a German businessman that enjoys a good cocktail party. Oskar has a wife, Emilie, but he cheats on her and doesn't treat her well. He takes over a factory previously owned by Jews. Schindler then begins to use imprisoned Jews to work in the factory. They were cheaper than normal laborers, so he used them as a way to make a larger profit. The cruelty of the Nazis progressed, and people in the ghettos began to say, "An hour of life is still life." It is amazing that nobody showed any resistance to this Nazi torture. Even a drinking buddy of Schindler's, Amon Goeth, brutally killed many people. Goeth even killed a young child that hugged his legs, pleading for life. Oskar began to get a soft spot for Jews, thinking that they should be respected as human beings. Some of the Jews he saw in the camps and ghettos were old prewar friends of his. He spent a lot of money in the black market to get extra food for them. At one point, Schindler was jailed, accused of being a "Jew Kisser." He was let out with a fine and a strong warning. He also received a letter that basically told him he better exterminate Jews or else. To pass SS inspections, he used bribes, like bottles of vodka and cognac. He opened up a second camp (mostly at his expense), which produced nothing. He did it just to save more Jews. They all wanted to get on Schindler's List. No Jews were murdered in Schindler's camps. Schindler's Jews were very thankful for him. It is true that one individual can make a difference, Schindler proves it by saving the lives of so many innocent people who, if it weren't for him, would have died.
I enjoyed this book. It was packed with some interesting and unbelievable Holocaust facts. This book told an amazing story of life, love, and courage. The only down to it is that it is very long and some parts can get very boring. There are also some German names that can get confusing, but they do not take away from the story. I would recommend this book to anyone that has the time to read it.
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Summary: well written of evil amidst good and good amidst evil
Review: One of my favorite books. Thomas Keneally writes about a good german who saves the most number of jews during the holocaust. Though the movie portraits only the good side of Schindler, the book gives a more clear picture of Schindler's character. The first chapter itself puts you right into the ww2 picture. From there, Keneally tries to portray the unspeakable horror done to Jews by the Nazis. I recommend this book for anyone who is interested in knowing about what happened to jews during the ww2.
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Summary: Portrait of a complex man
Review: I have wanted to see Spielberg's movie for quite some time, and I think I'm glad I read the book first. There is a lot of detail here that almost certainly will be lost in the movie. Initially, there is the complexity that is Oskar Schindler himself. It is fascinating to follow his development from a war profiteer and a major operator in the black market to a man obsessed with saving as many Jewish prisoners as he can. It would be convenient to view Schindler as an industrialist using the Jewish prisoners as a cheap source of labor to boost his profits, but it is quite clear that he ultimately was willing to pay any price to save people. His actions could have easily cost him his life. One the other hand, care must be taken to recongize that Schindler was not a saint, but a flawed man who happened to have performed a great deed. His story is truly remarkable. I also found that many of the descriptions of other individuals included fascinating details. Here we find an array of complex and all-too-human characters. Schindler's greatest gift seems to have been his ability to determine what was required to motivate individuals to help Schindler achieve his goals. He was a master a bribery, but could also locate unlikely sources of compassion and conscience. While this is a story that proves that not everyone looked the other way during the Nazi reign of terror, the shame of it is that the numbers of such people were so small.
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Summary: Schindler's List is NOT non-fiction
Review: Schindler's List is an extremely well written novel. It truly grasps your attention and makes you feel as if you're part of the story. Adults may have an easier time reading this book rather than children younger then the age of twelve. What makes it so difficult to understand, are some of the gruesome details and the very straight forward way of writing. If you are interested in chronicles about war and history, and aren't bothered by some mind blowing facts, this is a very appealing book.
It is about Oscar Schindler, a heavy drinker that loves women, and cares mostly about himself. Not until he realizes how horrible the Jewish people are being treated in the concentration camps, is it when he takes action. Schindler was able to save over one thousand jews. He saved them from having the same fate as millions of other Jews.
This novel is one of the best i have read in along time. Though very heart-breaking and deppressing, it truly lets you see what it was like for the Jewish people in that area of time.
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Summary: An Exciting Account of Bravery and Struggle
Review: Schindler's List, by Thomas Keneally, is based on the true story of a German industrialist who saved over 1,000 Jews from extermination during the Nazi occupation of Poland. It presents a very realistic and persuasive account of how Oskar Schindler placed himself at great risk (he was arrested three times) to oppose the Nazi regime and protect the Jewish workers in his factory. The book also describes the subhuman treatment of those that Schindler could not save. Most of those reading this brief review will have seen the movie and it must be said that the book does not have quite the impact of the movie. Still, this is a fine book and a tribute to a man who chose to act decisively when he met evil. It deserves to be widely read.
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