Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Overview… an accountant concerned with more than just the books. Stern runs Oskar Schindler's enamelware factory in Plaszow, Poland. He is responsible for saving the Schindlerjuden, the Jews he hires to work at the factory, thus rendering them “essential” to the Nazi war effort and saving them from the concentration camps.
Personality… resourceful, stout-hearted, and highly intelligent. Stern is a man of principle who disapproves of Schindler’s indulgent lifestyle. His own lifestyle is rather austere and antisocial, as he commits himself fully to running the factory and bringing on Jews as employees. Times could not be more dire in Poland, and especially for Jews like Stern. Understandably, his attitude is one of utmost seriousness.
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The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
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The acclaimed bestselling classic of Holocaust literature, winner of the Booker Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction, and the inspiration for the classic film—“a masterful account of the growth of the human soul” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). A stunning novel based on the true story of how German war profiteer and factory director Oskar Schindler came to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II. In this milestone of Holocaust literature, Thomas Keneally, author of Daughter of Mars, uses the actual testimony of the Schindlerjuden—Schindler’s Jews—to brilliantly portray the courage and cunning of a good man in the midst of unspeakable evil.
