Oskar Schindler was the swashbuckling hero who saved more than 1,000 Jews from Nazi death camps. ... around at the beginning in Krakow, so it just isn't true to say she played an equal role, although there are too many tales of the good things she did for them [the Jews] for anyone to doubt her altruism. read more
Pfefferberg took the opportunity to tell Keneally the story of Oskar Schindler. He gave him copies of some materials he had on file, and Keneally soon decided to make a fictionalised treatment of the story. read more
Oskar Schindler was born in 1908 in the industrial city of Zwittau, Moravia, then a German province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and now part of the Czech Republic. The region where Oskar grew up and attended a German-language school was also known as the Sudetenland. read more