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Thomas Michael Keneally é um romancista, dramaturgo e autor de não-ficção australiano. Ele é mais conhecido por ter escrito o livro Schindler's Ark, vencedor do Booker Prize de 1982 que foi inspirado nos relatos de Poldek Pfefferberg, um sobrevivente do Holocausto. O livro viria a ser adaptado para o cinema por Steven Spielberg em A Lista de Schindler, que ganhou o Oscar de Melhor Filme. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. Outubro 1935
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“No olvidamos las penurias de Egipto, no olvidamos a Haman, no olvidamos a Hitler. Así como no olvidamos a los injustos, no olvidamos a los justos. Recordemos pues a Oskar Schindler.”

Thomas Keneally livro Schindler's Ark

Schindler's List

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“The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.”

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Fonte: Schindler's List

“In times like these, he said, it must be hard for the churches to go on telling people that their Heavenly Father cared about the death of even a single sparrow. He'd hate to be a priest, Herr Schindler said, in an era like this, when life did not have the value of a packet of cigarettes. Stern agreed but suggested, in the spirit of the discussion, that the Biblical reference Herr Schindler had made could be summed up by a Talmudic verse which said that he who saves the life of one man, saves the entire world.”

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The references are to Matthew 10:29 (or Luke 12:6) and Jerusalem Talmud, Sanhedrin 4:8 (37a).
Fonte: Schindler's Ark (1982), Ch. 2.

“The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf.”

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Fonte: Schindler's Ark (1982), Ch. 31.

“Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.”

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Prologue.
Schindler's Ark (1982)