Enthralling and famous novel treatment of the fate of Oskar Schindler - the ruthless
a careerist, a war tycoon, a lover of elegance, luxury, alcohol and beautiful women, who found his humanity in the shadow of the Auschwitz chimneys and risked not only his property, but also his own life in order to prevent the murder of thousands of "his Jews". The novel evocatively depicts the development and clashes of individuals - victims, passive participants and proactive executors - involved in a huge bureaucratic machinery of evil. Steven Spielberg used the motifs of the novel to make the famous film of the same name.