Posted on 04/06/2009 7:22:00 AM PDT by PotatoHeadMick
A list of Jewish people saved by Oskar Schindler that inspired the novel and Oscar-winning film has been found in a Sydney library.
The list, which contains the names of 801 Jews saved in the Holocaust by the businessman, was found in a box belonging to author Thomas Keneally.
The list was among the author's manuscript materials which he used to create the book Schindler's Ark.
Keneally's book went on to become a major motion picture, Schindler's List, starring Liam Neeson as Schindler and Ralph Fiennes as the head of an SS-run camp
The 13-page list, a carbon typescript copy of the original, was found between research notes and German newspaper clippings.
Library co-curator Olwen Pryke said the document was 'one of the most powerful documents of the 20th Century and a moving peice of history.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
What are they going to do with it? Donate it to an Israeli museum, I hope.
Awesome. Traveled to most of the places mentioned in the book...including the factory.
Feinnes was absolutely brilliant in that movie.
Indeed he was, but it is a bit odd for the newspaper to say that Fiennes “starred” in the movie given that Liam Neeson was obviously the star.
Neeson was the central character although Fiennes and Kingsley were brilliant in their roles.
As an aside on Kingsley, ever see Sexy Beast? Quite a different character.
And next to it was Howard Hughes’ real will...
> What are they going to do with it? Donate it to an Israeli museum, I hope.
As good as that sounds, it places it in jeopardy of destruction by a terrorist. It should be placed in a bank vault, deeded over the the Israeli government and the location of the bank holding it kept secret.
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Watched "Sexy Beast" and "Gandhi" on successive nights.
Kept waiting for Gandhi to go all thuggee.
Never heard the “c” word used more than in that movie....
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