Who Is Oskar Schindler?

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well to start off i thought the movie Schindler’s List was for sure one of the best movies i

have seen.But just to say Oscar Schindler was an amazing man. In 1993 Steven Spielberg’s

Schindler’s List brought to the screen a story that had gone untold since the tragic events of the

Holocaust. Oskar Schindler, a nazi party member, used his pull within the party to save the lives

of over 1000 Jews by recruiting them to work in his Polish factory. Here are some facts about

Spielberg’s groundbreaking film. The story was relayed to author Thomas Keneally in a beverly

hills leather goods shop. In October 1980, Australian author Keneally had stopped into a leather

goods shop off o fRode Drive after a book tour stopover from a film festival in Sorrento, Italy,
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When the owner of the shop, Leopold Page,

learned that Keneally was a writer, he began to tell him”the greatest story of humanity man to

man’. That story was how Page, his wife, and thousands of other jews were saved by Nazi

factory owner named Oskar Schindler during World War ll. I think that Oskar Schindler was a

brave and courageous man that a lot of people had respect for. He helped so many others out f

rom all the things he has worked hard for. I think that Schindler should always be remembered

no matter what for all of the 1100 people he saved. Number 2: KENEALLY WASNT THE

FIRST PERSON PAGE TOLD ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCE WITH SCHINDLER. The film

rights to Pages story were actually first purchased by MGM for $50,000 in the 1960s after Page

had similarly ambushed the wife of film producer Marvin Mosch at his leather shop. Mrs. Gosch

told the story to her husband, who agree to produce a film version, even going so far as hiring

Casablanca co screen Howard Kosh to write the Script .

There was actually more than one list, seven list in all were made by Oskar Schindler and

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