Schindler's List (1993)

Rating: 10/10 (29 January 2007)

book written by Thomas Keneally; 1993 film based on the altruistic activity of Oskar Schindler during the Nazi internment and extermination of Jews (the movie is named after a list of names of 1,200 Jewish people that Oskar Schindler hired to work in his factory and saved them from being sent to concentration camps) Thomas Keneally Thomas Michael Keneally (born October 7, 1935) also Tom Keneally, is an Australian novelist. He was known as "Mick" until 1964 but began using the name Thomas when he started publishing, in the hope that family would be less able to identify him as the author. [1] He is perhaps most famous for his Schindler's Ark (1982), which won the Booker Prize and is the basis of the film Schindler's List. Many of his novels are reworkings of historical material, although modern in their psychology and style.