Positively impressed with this book’s ability to provide a well rounded account of the events, showing Oskar in the full light of his good humane deeds as well as in the light of his faults and drawbacks.

I particularly enjoyed the critical comment on Emilie Schindler’s, his wife, contribution which is omitted in the movie (due to shortage of space I presume - the movie is already 3h long, though it doesn’t feel like it).

“Emilie arranged for someone who was visiting Cracow to fetch the prescription and bring back the glasses made up. Young Lutek considered this more than an average kindness especially in a system that positively desired his myopia, that aimed to take the spectacles off all Jews of Europe. There are many stories about Oskar providing new glasses for various prisoners. One wonders if some of Emilie’s kindnesses in this matter may not have been absorbed into the Oskar legend”.

Emilie is granted her place in the narrative without disrupting the heroism of Oskar. Keneally does justice to the story and to the people who played a part in it.