Oskar Schindler (People Who Made History) - Softcover

Thompson, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0737708948 ISBN 13: 9780737708943

Publisher: Greenhaven, 2002

Synopsis

Explores the life and deeds of Oskar Schindler through introductory material on the Holocaust, and through a collection of articles, survivor stories, and reviews of the motion picture "Schindler's List."

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From School Library Journal

Grade 8-Up A 15-page introduction tells about Schindler, who saved more than 1000 Jews from extermination by the Nazis during World War II by using them to work first in an enamelware factory and then in a factory that ostensibly produced munitions. Early chapters are taken from well-respected overviews of the Holocaust, and could be used with students as young as junior high age. The same can be said for Emilie Schindler's discussion of her husband or any of the other first-person accounts. However, the book also includes a significant number of high-level analyses by outside experts, including a psychiatrist, a philosopher, and an economist, that manage to make this fascinating man seem dull. The unevenness in the selections indicates two entirely different audiences. For a slightly younger age group, Jack L. Roberts's Oskar Schindler (Lucent, 1996) is far superior. -Paula J. LaRue, Van Wert Middle School, OH
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About this edition

• Publisher: Greenhaven
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0737708948
• ISBN 13: 9780737708943
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238