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...by the Gestapo in 1943 her life was saved by a bribe made to the German firing squad. The enigmatic German industrialist Oskar Schindler saved 1,200 Jews by placing them on his famous list. By keeping them safe within his factory, Schindler ensured they...
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...appealing, especially after a visit to Auschwitz. When we went to the Schindler Museum located in the actual factory where Oskar Schindler employed over 1,000 of Krakow’s Jews, I found myself focusing on individual acts of courage and kindness, starting with...
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BlogHer
http://www.blogher.com/rebirth-old-jewish-quarter-krakow-diaries-part-iii-0
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...at the heart of the film "Schindler's List." The document -- a roster of 801 Jewish workers whom German businessman Oskar Schindler employed to spare them from Nazi concentration camps during World War II -- is being offered for $2.2 million. Dealer Gary Zimet...
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FOX News
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...MODERN-DAY Oskar Schindler would be jailed for up 10 years under the Rudd government's proposed crackdown on people smuggling, lawyers say. In largely unscrutinised changes, backed by the opposition, the government is introducing new criminal charges for...
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Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/national/new-law-would-jail-a-modern-oskar-schindler-20100427-tq1g.html
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...the Nazi holocaust is up for sale for £1.5million. The list, which names 801 men, women and children, is owned by the family of Oskar Schindler's right-hand man, Itzhak Stern. Schindler's List was immortalised in the 1993 Oscar-winning Spielberg film starring...
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Mirror.co.uk
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...in the world today,' said a spokesperson for Momentsintime.com. 'This is one out of a reputed list of seven made by in total Oskar Schindler. 'Two are in the hands of Israeli Holocaust Museum's, one is in Koblenz in Germany and the other is in the Holocaust...
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Daily Mail - UK
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COCOA — Standing in front of his three-fold presentation board, Cocoa High ninth-grader Jamal Middleton explains in detail how Oskar Schindler helped save hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust.
A few months ago, the 14-year-old knew nothing about the
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Florida Today
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20091212/NEWS01/912120316/1006/rss01
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Poland is full of ghosts. Everywhere. Some invoking the warmth of a true compliment, others bearing the weight of a lie everyone seems to believe. All mysterious.
Past the trendy cafes, beyond the Catholic church spires, Poland has a history that begs
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In the Democratic Republic of Congo, blessed with an abundance of precious minerals but blighted by years of war, hope can sometimes seem the scarcest commodity. But if that is the case, no one told Henri Bura Ladyi.
He has single-handedly rescued 5,00
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The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/appeals/indy-appeal/africas-schindler-1835510.html
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Synopsis: To an even greater degree than Oskar Schindler, Dr. Israel Kasztner played a key role in saving the lives of well over 1,000 Jews from the Holocaust (1,600 in Kasztner's case; 1,200 in...
To an even greater degree than Oskar Schindler, Dr.
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Rotten Tomatoes
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/killing_kasztner/
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We like our war heroes to be uncomplicated — easily pinned with ribbons for moral courage. Like Oskar Schindler, among the most immortalized of the "righteous gentiles" who risked his life to rescue 1,100 Jews from the Nazi gas chambers, or the Polish
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NorthJersey.com
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The youngest survivor on Schindler's List will visit the Twin Cities on Tuesday.
Leon Leyson (born Leib Lejzon) was just 13 when his father talked Oskar Schindler into adding the youngster to his roster of factory workers who were protected from the
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/63864372.html
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This is Friday, Oct. 9, the 282nd day of 2009 with 83 to follow.
The moon is waning. The morning star is Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn. The evening stars are Neptune, Jupiter and Uranus.
On this date in history:
In 1934, King Alexander of Yugoslavia
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United Press International
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/10/09/The-almanac/UPI-38611255073400/
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In 1974, the USSR expelled dissident novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Oskar Schindler passed away, Philippe Petit walked a high wire between the Twin Towers, and jazz guitarist John Abercrombie recorded his first session as a leader for ECM Records.
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The Epoch Times
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/22881/
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MITSU YASUKAWA/THE STAR-LEDGERSaxman Mike Lee
The lineup for the rescheduled one-day program of the seventh annual Oskar Schindler Performing Arts Center Jazz Festival has been revised, with some ace additions.
The show, originally scheduled for
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NJ.com
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2009/09/ospac_jazz_fest_update.html
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We jazz and blues fans in this part of the Garden State are so lucky. We have choices. Choices that are particularly valuable in an economy that's still mired in recession, but shows promise of creeping its way out of the doldrums next spring.
This
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Asbury Park Press
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We jazz and blues fans in this part of the Garden State are so lucky. We have choices. Choices that are particularly valuable in an economy that's still mired in recession, but shows promise of creeping its way out of the doldrums next spring.
This
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Asbury Park Press
http://www.app.com/article/20090918/ENT/909180315/1031/ENT&source=rss
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...saved his family from certain death in a World War II Nazi concentration camp. Leon Leyson was on Oakland to honor Oskar Schindler who managed to save about 1100 mostly Polish Jews from being gassed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Schindler is among 25...
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KTVU
http://www.ktvu.com/news/20855444/detail.html
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...Highway 280), West Orange; $5-$10, children free; (973) 669-7385; ospac.org. Here is the schedule for the seventh annual Oskar Schindler Performing Arts Center Jazz Festival: The festival also offers numerous food booths and arts and crafts presenters. Large-scale...
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NJ.com
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2009/09/born_to_swing_nat_adderley_jr.html
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HBO showed the film Schindler’s List last week. The 1993 Steven Spielberg movie never ceases to arouse my deepest emotions. The perennial question put forth in the film remains: How could people wantonly kill so many others as a matter of state policy?
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram
http://www.star-telegram.com/242/story/1596856.html
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...quite some time, but of course it was a big step in our life," she said. Hailing Sir Nicholas - likened to German businessman Oskar Schindler, whose rescue inspired a novel and the multiple Oscar-winning film Schindler's List - she said: "He saved so many...
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ABC Online
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/05/2677398.htm
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...World War. Former British prime minister Tony Blair praised him as "Britain's Schindler," after the German businessman Oskar Schindler, who also saved Jewish lives during the war. Winton has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth and honoured in the Czech Republic....
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CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/09/04/winton-train-children.html?ref=rss
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...won an International Emmy Award in 2002, and Tony Blair praised him as "Britain's Schindler," after the German businessman Oskar Schindler, who also saved Jewish lives during the war. Mr Winton rejected the comparison and the description of himself as a hero. Unlike...
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The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/world-war-2/6138480/English-Schindler-reunited-with-holocaust-survivors.html
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Talk about an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
In Quentin Tarantino's blood-soaked new film "Inglourious Basterds," Brad Pitt and his merry band of Jewish soldiers bash Nazi soldiers' heads with a baseball bat and collect their scalps in a bid
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NorthJersey.com
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VAIL, Colorado — He was just another name next to a number on the list. He survived one of the worst periods of European history because of this list. And he has a story to tell.
Like any good storyteller, Leon Leyson focuses on the personal details.
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The Vail Trail
http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20090814/AE/908139941/-1/RSS04
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VAIL, Colorado — He was just another name next to a number on the list. He survived one of the worst periods of European history because of this list. And he has a story to tell.
Like any good storyteller, Leon Leyson focuses on the personal details.
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Vail Daily
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VAIL, Colorado — He was just another name next to a number on the list. He survived one of the worst periods of European history because of this list. And he has a story to tell.
Like any good storyteller, Leon Leyson focuses on the personal details.
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Vail Daily
http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20090813/AE/908139941/-1/RSS07
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THE glass doors at Random House headquarters in North Sydney slide apart to reveal a momentarily surprised Tom Keneally and his publisher Meredith Curnow.
Wide-eyed, lips parted, silenced by mutual curiosity, they look towards me like a couple out of
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The Australian
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Like the better-known Oskar Schindler, Sendlerowa has been recognised by Israel's Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous among the Nations, a term used to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during
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Comment Is Free
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/jul/29/saints-miracles
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Nine-year old Leon Leyson counted the days as his family packed their belongings and prepared to move from their small village in Northern Poland to the big city, Krakow. While he knew he would miss his school friends, Leon imagined the unique sights
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Chabad.org
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Kirk Johnson collects death threats. Not directed at him, but at the people he is fighting to save.
“To the dirty infiltrator,’’ one of them begins. “To the depraved,’’ starts another.
A former US government official in Iraq, Johnson, 28, has spent the
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Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/06/30/mass_based_man_tries_to_resettle_thousands?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Massachusetts+news
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From real life legends like Oskar Schindler and Michael Collins to classic literature's Jean Valjean, and even the modern day antihero Darkman, actor Liam Neeson's masterful characterizations of flawed men capable of extraordinary things established
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Hollywood.com
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JENNIFER KABBANY - For The Californian
TEMECULA ---- In 1993, a movie called "Schindler's List" swept the nation, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture and catapulting into the spotlight the plight of Polish Jews during World War II and one man's
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North County Times
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2009/06/05/news/californian/temecula/z5843a7dbe0b82ce0882575cc000f2f7c.txt
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Thomas Keneally says in his excellent new memoir, Searching For Schindler, that when he was doing his early research for Schindler's Ark, "It became apparent that if one looked at the Holocaust using Oskar Schindler as a lens, one got an idea of the
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Guardian Unlimited
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On Saturday, June 8, 1968, a train bearing the body of assassinated New York senator and Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy traveled from New York to Washington, D.C., for his final resting place at Arlington National Cemetery. LOOK
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Baltimore City Paper
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A copy of a list of Jewish forced labourers saved by Oskar Schindler are among rare documents that went on display in Germany on Wednesday, the body responsible for preserving Nazi papers said.
Others include a document with names of people transported
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Hindustan Times
http://www.hindustantimes.com/redir.aspx?ID=7b9bfa07-b167-48e2-b787-9f2a91cc70dd&SectionName=RSSFeed-news
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AFP - A copy of a list of Jewish forced labourers saved by Oskar Schindler are among rare documents that went on display in Germany on Tuesday, the body responsible for preserving Nazi papers said.
Others include a document with names of people
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France 24
http://www.france24.com/en/20090505-culture-germany-holocaust-list-jewish-forced-oskar-schindler-jews-nazi
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Oskar Schindler was born on April 28, 1908 in Zwittau, a German-speaking city in Czechoslovakia. Although the Catholic-born Schindler attended school with Jews, he never named any of them among his close friends. As a young man, he joined the pro-Nazi
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Finding Dulcinea
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With ''The Soloist'' -- based on a true story, starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. -- in theaters now, we look back at the gold standards for life stories on the big screen, including ''Malcolm X,'' ''GoodFellas,'' and ''Milk''
25. WALK THE LINE
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OH NO THEY DIDN'T
http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/34543605.html
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BERLIN -- "John Rabe," Florian Gallenberger's true story of
"China's Oskar Schindler," was the big winner of the 2009 German
Film Awards, winning four Lolas, including best film.
The story of John Rabe, a German businessman who saved 200,000
Chinese
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Hollywood Reporter
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"The remarks
by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd last Friday about people
smugglers where he blasted them as the 'scum of the earth'
who should 'rot in jail and rot in hell', are based on a
very poor judgment of the complexity of the issues and they
are
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Scoop - New Zealand News
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When Holocaust rescuer Irena Sendler died last year at the age of 98, Rabbi Jacques Cukierkorn of Kansas City’s New Reform Temple took issue with various obituaries paying tribute to her as the “female Oskar Schindler.̶
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KansasCity.com
http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/story/1146442.html
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When Holocaust rescuer Irena Sendler died last year at the age of 98, Rabbi Jacques Cukierkorn of Kansas City’s New Reform Temple took issue with various obituaries paying tribute to her as the “female Oskar Schindler.̶
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KansasCity.com
http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/columnists/aaron_barnhart/story/1146442.html
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george clooney, barack obama, dalai lama, george bush, shaq, bob dylan, bill clinton, michael phelps, russell crowe, chris rock
larry fitzgerald
There's Larry Fitzgerald, of course. Cardinals receiver, age of twenty-five. The guy goes
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Esquire
http://www.esquire.com/features/list-of-men-0509?src=rss
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Australian researchers have found the carbon copy of a list produced by Oskar Schindler that inspired author Thomas Keneally to write “Schindler’s Ark.”
CBS will air a TV movie on April 19 about Irena Sendler, Polish Catholic social worker known as
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Finding Dulcinea
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/international/2009/april/Copy-of-Schindlers-List-Rediscovered.html
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...writer used to bring the story to the worldâs attention, a curator said Monday. The 13-page document is a copy of one of Oskar Schindlerâs famed compilations of names that eventually included 1,100 men and women he saved by employing them in his factories...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/news/stories/2009/04/07/schindler_list.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=15
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Ben Kingsley as Schindler's accountant Itzhak Stern in the 1993 film about the life of Oskar Schindler. Photograph: Cine Text/Allstar/Cine Text/Allstar
A yellowing document listing 801 Jews who were saved from the Holocaust by Oskar Schindler has been
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Guardian Unlimited
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German industrialist Oskar Schindler's list of 801 Jewish workers he helped escape death during World War II has been discovered by a researcher at Australia's New South Wales state library.
The researcher found the carbon typescript copy of the
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Inside Bay Area
http://www.insidebayarea.com/crime/ci_12086868?source=rss
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"A list of Jews saved by Oskar Schindler that inspired the novel and Oscar-winning film 'Schindler's List' has been found in a Sydney library, its co-curator said. Workers at the New South Wales State Library found the list, containing the names of 80
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ArtsJournal
http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/04/schindlers_list.shtml
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p2pnet news view | Movies:- WWII German industrialist Oskar Schindler’s (right) list of more than 800 Jews given to Australian author Thomas Keneally prompted him to write Schindler’s Ark, which inspired Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List.
But the
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