Schindler's Ark

Summary

Drawing on extensive interviews with survivors, Keneally tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a flawed German industrialist whose factory became an unlikely refuge for more than a thousand Jewish workers during the Holocaust. The book sits between novel and reportage, using fictional technique to bring documented testimony alive without softening its horror. Its disciplined, unsentimental prose set a benchmark for serious literary engagement with the historical record of genocide.