Schindler’s List

 


 I decided to read this for several reasons.  I’ve found that I really enjoy historical fiction—with possibly my favorite time period being that surrounding WWII—and also because I knew I watched the movie during high school history class over many class periods for a week or two, but has absolutely zero recollection of it. 

 It was VERY good.  It was EXTREMELY historical/fact/timeline/geography/military based, so it was also actually one of the more difficult books I’ve read.  I mean that it took me a LONG time to read it in order to let things sink in, keep people and places and times straight.  It was heavy.  I often would stop and look up maps or google different specific people mentioned and read bios on them, or look up military ranks. Again, it was just so “fact packed.”  

I am so glad I read it and really “enjoyed” it (as much as you can enjoy a book like that!???!).  It was super interesting to learn the oddly opposing moral sides of Schindler —from savior of thousands of people to a total sweet talkin adulterer, who for much of the time was still making a pretty penny in his (slave labor—but yet was saving the “slaves”) factories producing goods for the German army.  An extremely complicated person…but aren’t we all?!  I walked away being most intrigued, honestly, though with his wife (who he was technically married to his whole adult life) and look forward to reading a book that SHE also has written.  I can’t wait to see things from her perspective!  A must read.  So hard to rank because, my gosh, it’s REAL…and horrible…but also amazing and did bring out the best in some people. A 4.5-5 out of 5.  


Where Light and Shadow Meet: a memoir by Emilie Schindler —-this is on my to-be-read list!!

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