Schindlers list

Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in occupied Kraków, arranges with the commandant of a labour camp to staff his factory with Jewish prisoners. Over time he commits himself to keeping them alive, using bribes and influence, and at one point recovers a transport that had been sent toward Auschwitz. Thomas Keneally wrote it as a novel built on survivors' testimony. It first appeared in 1982 as Schindler's Ark, won the Booker Prize that year, and inspired Steven Spielberg's 1993 film.