Schindler's list resurfaces in Australia
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Sydney - The list of 801 Jews threatened by Nazi persecution that was drawn up by German industrialist Oskar Schindler in 1945 has resurfaced in Australia and will go on show at a Sydney library, news reports said Monday. It's actually a carbon-copy, typed at the same time as the carbon copy that is among the prized exhibits at the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, but it's priceless all the same because few carbon copies survived and the original has never been found. The 13 yellowing sheets, typed in German, were rediscovered by historian Olwen Pryke when she was going through six boxes of papers brought from a manuscript dealer by the Library of New South Wales in 1996. Australian author Thomas Keneally, author of the Booker Prize-winning Schindler's Ark, sold the papers. It was his 1982 novel that Hollywood director Steven Spielberg turned into the Oscar-winning 1993 film Schindler's List. Keneally told The Sydney Morning Herald that he first saw the list in 1980 when, through a chance meeting in Los Angeles, he was persuaded to turn the life of Schindler, a card-carrying Nazi, into a novel. He was handed the list by Leopold Pffeferberg, whose name was on the list along with that of his wife, Ludmila. "It's the only case in my lifetime that someone has said 'I have got a great story for you' where I have ended up doing anything about it," Keneally told the paper. Pryke described the 13 pages as "an incredibly moving piece of history." She said neither the library nor the manuscript seller realized the list was in the collection at the time of the 1996 transaction. Schindler, who died in obscurity in 1974, used his money and his charm to persuade members of Hitler's elite troops to staff his factory with Jews rather than send them off to concentration camps.
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Genocide
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Jolie ,
Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:30:26 GMT
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The attempt to exterminate an entire race of people is not something that should EVER be forgotten Wayne. Obviously you have never lived in fear or felt the termoil and anguish of not knowing where your child is or if your parents were immediately put to death upon arrival at a concentration camp. I am not Jewish and I am one from the generation born in the 70's but my father made sure that he instilled in me the respect for a human life and what that is worth. We never want to ever get that close to the annihilation of any race ever again.
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I agree with tony
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Jasmine ,
Sun, 12 Apr 2009 06:50:14 GMT
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Tony is definitely right in his statement... We should never over look or "move on" from thinking about all the horrible things that have happened in history. True, it is the past, but similar to what Tony said, if we do not remember our past, how will we learn from our mistakes in the future... Maybe we should take a harder look in fact, and that might help us all be better people and prevent any of the nonsense that this world is sadly filled with today.
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Schindler's List
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Ari Stotleman ,
Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:37:45 GMT
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History is much more compelling when it's lived.
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holocaust
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tony ,
Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:40:39 GMT
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wayne,the whole point is not to forget.As someone wrote' those who do not know history,are condemned to repeat it'.WW2 was just the other day.The most civilised nation systematically went about slaughtering the equivalent of 1000 full soccer stadiums of men,women and kids.The Jews will never forget; and I suggest you [and your children] never forget what man is capable of doing to innocents.Remarks like yours disturb me.
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Holocaust
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wayne ,
Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:32:08 GMT
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people you need to move on with your lives..The Holocaust was very Biblical Archeological to ours laws,but that was a long time ago. MOVE ON i say. We have todays crisis to think about in the world now.suffering of the jewish people.What about the suffering of the people in the world now.
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Schindler's list
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Against the threat ,
Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:32:49 GMT
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Andrew's comments are ignorant if not just dumb. The movie was fictionalized. The details are factual. Or maybe he's just another Holocaust denier.
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Schindler's List
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Andrew ,
Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:49:11 GMT
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I am puzzled at this news for the very reason that both Schindler’s List, the book, and the subsequent movie are fictional.
The very fine print at the beginning of the movie reportedly announced that the movie was a fictional account. It is hard to read because the print is too small, and the video-byte too fast to read.
However, the first edition of the book, clearly stated on the first page: "This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental."
This disclaimer, however, is not to be found in subsequent editions. The second edition still printed the following, on the publication date page:
"Library of Congress Cataloging-in Publication Data Kenelly, Thomas, Schindler's List
1. Schindler, Oskar, 1908-1974 - fiction
This classification information too was removed by the third edition.
My point is that while we honor the suffering of the jewish people during the world war, we must also separate myths from facts.
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What an incredible find!
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Deborah ,
Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:06:43 GMT
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I hope that the pages are printed in Biblical Archeological Magazine (BAS) and photo'd for the web so I can see it better and many cancome close to the tragedy that was the Holocaust.
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