Editing Thomas Keneally (section)

== ''Schindler's Ark'' ==

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Keneally wrote the [[Booker Prize]]-winning novel in 1982, inspired by the efforts of [[Poldek Pfefferberg]], a [[Holocaust survivor]]. In 1980, Keneally met Pfefferberg in the latter's shop, and learning that he was a novelist, Pfefferberg showed him his extensive files on [[Oskar Schindler]], including the original list itself.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/thomas-keneally-interview/|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=7 October 2015|last=Walton|first=James|title=Thomas Keneally: I wanted to be recognised by the Poms |publisher=Telegraph Media Group Limited |access-date=10 June 2017}}</ref> Keneally was interested, and Pfefferberg became an advisor for the book, accompanying Keneally to Poland where they visited Kraków and the sites associated with the Schindler story. Keneally dedicated ''Schindler's Ark'' to Pfefferberg: "who by zeal and persistence caused this book to be written." He said in an interview in 2007 that what attracted him to Oskar Schindler was that "it was the fact that you couldn't say where opportunism ended and altruism began. And I like the subversive fact that the spirit breatheth where it will. That is, that good will emerge from the most unlikely places".<ref name=ptint/> The book was later made into the movie ''[[Schindler's List]]'' (1993) directed by [[Steven Spielberg]], earning his first Best Director [[Academy Award|Oscar]]. Keneally's meeting with Pfefferberg and their research tours are detailed in ''Searching for Schindler: A Memoir'' (2007).

Some of the Pfefferberg documents that inspired Keneally are now housed in the [[State Library of New South Wales]] in Sydney.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7985004.stm | work=BBC News | title=Schindler's List found in Sydney | date=6 April 2009 | access-date=28 March 2010}}</ref> In 1996 the State Library purchased this material from a private collector.<ref>http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2009/04/08/index.php?section=espectaculos&article=a09n2esp (In Spanish)</ref>