![]() ![]() ![]() "But I set out operating with the normal motives of a writer," he explains. Both book and film became cultural monuments, and Keneally found himself the recipient of global fame and dinner invitations to the White House. "It's a story for you, I swear." He was right. ![]() "It is a story for you, Thomas," Pfefferberg had implored Keneally. It ends with Steven Spielberg's film version being feted at the Oscars. It begins in 1980 in a Los Angeles luggage store, when he is buttonholed by Leopold Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor, who tells him about Oskar Schindler, the louchely corrupt German industrialist who, in a highly uncharacteristic act of bravery and altruism, saved hundreds of Jews from the gas chambers. How Keneally came across the story, and the impact it subsequently had on his and other people's lives, is the subject of his latest, and 37th book, Searching for Schindler. ![]()
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