I read the original version, 'Schindler's Ark'. Amazing book. Why was the title changed? Maybe in line with Spielberg's cinematic yet confronting masterpiece?

The stories of World War II are always poignant. It could save the theme of concentration camps, especially for those who tackle them. This true story is no exception, and we come to hate Amon Goeth, the executioner of the Płaszów camp near Krakow. However, Oskar Schindler will be inventive in getting the Jewish internees out of their clutches. Those named on Schindler's list will escape death. It might have been a drop in the ocean, but every bit of life it could save with those lists was a vic...

He who saves the life of one man saves the entire world.” ― Thomas Keneally, Schindler's List. Oscar Schindler was a German industrialist and a member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.I had to wonder on completing this book just how many lives Oscar Schindler has really saved when you multiply to the present day. ...

ترجمه فارسی فهرست شیندلر از نشر جمهوری ، با ترجمه محبوبه مهر آفرید ، چیزی در مایه های جمع کردن بدون نظم تعدادی جمله ، با زمان های مختلف ، بدون فعل و فاعل هستش ، جملاتی که مفهوم ندارند ، گوینده آن مشخص نیست و اصلا معلوم نیست مخاطب آن چه کسی می باشد ! علاوه بر این ، ترجمه فارسی کتاب ، استالینگراد را در لهستان ! ذکر می کند و ضمنا منظور از کیو همان کیف پایتخت اوکراین می باشد ! به نظرم به جای اتلاف وقت در مورد انبوه اشکالات ترجمه فارسی که به مانند توهینی به نویسنده آقای توماس کنینلی هست نگاه کوتاهی ب...

I read this book some time ago and I also watched the movie. I am not ashamed to say that this book and the film made me cry. Such a terrible time in our history when so much suffering was caused to so many. Thank God for people such as this who risked there own lives to save others.

I read this after the wonderful movie came out in 1993.

"The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All around its cramped margins lies the gulf." The story behind the book which brought the story of Oskar Schindler to the world is almost as interesting as the story of Schindler himself. In October 1980, Thomas Keneally - already an established and successful Australian author - found himself looking for a new briefcase at the end of his book tour in southern California, the last stop before returning home to Sydney. Fate led him to a luggage...

I was sort of familiar with the Schindler legacy--probably seen the film 5 or 6 times. (Isn't it peculiar that although it is regarded as one of the best biographies/films of all time it hardly ever makes it on any person's personal favorites lists? Blame the subject matter entirely.) So this is basically a reading that concentrates most of its attention on all the details that Steven Spielberg failed to bring to the screen. Because that inevitably occurs with all adaptations.Well, this is almos...

Certain people (you know who you are) were suggesting the other day that no one actually reads Thomas Keneally. Well, I notice surprisingly few reviews here, so maybe the accusation has some substance. At any rate, I did read the book, and really liked it.Quite apart from anything else, it's an inspiring true story, which the author tells well. But the thing I've thought about most is what it says about the nature of good and evil. At the beginning of the story, Schindler is by no stretch of the...

Much has been said about the 1993 Stephen Spielberg Oscar-winning movie. In 2007, it ranked 8th in the 100 Best American Movies For All Times list. I saw it twice in the movie house when it was released. I bought copies of it. Copies... because you know how technology progresses: VHS, then VCD, then DVD, then Blue Ray. (when will this ever stop?) Every time I bought me a copy, I watched it. Every time I watched it, I cried.But surprisingly, I did not cry reading the book, 1982 Thomas Keanally’s ...