Schindler's List / FIRST Edition / Thomas Keneally / Hardcover 1982

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 Oskar Schindler, a Catholic German, lies in Jerusalem as one of Israel's honored dead. On the Avenue of Righteous People, a tree bears his name. Schindler was a German industrialist who during World War II responded to the "Jewish question" by building from his own resources a concentration camp-cum factory in Cracow. Within its confines he sheltered thousands of Jews, finally transferring them to another safe haven in Czechoslovakia as a besieged Reich consigned 60,000 souls a day to the ovens of Auschwitz in a last mad attempt to effect the Final Solution. A place on "Schindler's list" meant at least the hope of a future to an impris-oned Jew. Throughout the war years Schindler ex-pended an enormous fortune on bribes to the SS and on black- market food and drugs for his prisoners. Living a life of risk, he played with astounding skill the strings that linked him to high German officials, and when bluff and bribery failed, he sometimes gambled at cards to add one more name to his precious and precarious — list. In the face of the most ramified system of evil ever conceived, Oskar Schindler showed that there is always personal choice, as he observed with impeccable cunning and strength of soul the higher morality of the sacredness of human life. Schindler's survivors, living widely dis-persed in the United States and Israel, in South America and Australia, still refer to themselves as Schindlerjuden — Schindler's Jews. It is from their testimony that Thomas Keneally, the distinguished author of Gossip from the Forest and Confederates, has achieved this stunning re-creation, based on history but told with all the urgency of fiction. No one has ever understood what drove Schindler to his 

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