none Nice paper-I would have liked to have seen what you got out of the Jews' experiences as death-camp survivors Thomas Keneally's Schindler's List is the historical account of Oskar Schindler and his heroic actions in the midst of the horrors of World War II Poland. Schindler's List recounts the life of Oskar Schindler, and how he comes to Poland in search of material wealth but leaves having saved the lives of over 1100 Jews who …showed first 75 words of 1288 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1288 total…to look at ourselves and analyze what's inside. Historically, I find Schindler's List to be very important not only because it is tells of a shameful time in western civilization, but also because the events that took place in the novel occurred only yesterday. After all fifty years is almost nothing in historical terms. Perhaps the novel's greatest strength is this feeling that the events that transpired in Schindler's List are in fact modern history.