Volume 30, Number 2 · February 17, 1983
Life Saving
By John Gross
Schindler's List
by Thomas Keneally
Simon and Schuster, 400 pp., $16.95
A Man for Others: Maximilian Kolbe, Saint of Auschwitz, in the Words of Those Who Knew Him
by Patricia Treece
Harper and Row, 198 pp., $12.95
When Oskar Schindler first visited Israel, in 1961, he was given a tumultuous welcome; when the West German government finally got around to honoring him, in 1966, Adenauer presided over the ceremony; when he died in 1974 The New York Times ran a piece about him. And his story has certainly not been overlooked since then. The gist of it can be found, for example, in Benjamin Ferencz's admirable study of Jewish forced labor under the Nazis, Less Than Slaves.[1] Yet it also remains true that he is seldom mentioned in general books about the Holocaust and that, in the English-speaking world at least, few people seem to have heard of him until the appearance of Schindler's List.
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