猶太人救命符「辛德勒的名單」在澳洲圖書館被找到 - 澳洲

猶太人救命符「辛德勒的名單」　在澳洲圖書館被找到(2009/04/06 19:29)

朱錦華／綜合報導

澳洲雪梨的一名圖書館長說，曾挽救大批猶太人性命，著名的「辛德勒的名單」，
最近在澳洲被找到。據了解，是新南威爾斯國立圖書館裡的工作人員找到這份名單的。

圖書館人員在整理澳洲作家坎尼利（Thomas Keneally）捐贈的手稿和材料時，在一
堆筆記與剪報當中百發現了這份名單。

它總共有13頁，是一份已經發黃的、匆匆完成的打字稿的複寫本。時間是歐戰結束
前夕的1945年4月18日，上面登記著801名在被德國商人辛德勒救出的猶太人的名字。

二戰期間，德國商人辛德勒以他的工廠需要人手為由，先後保住了上千名猶太人的
性命，讓他們躲過被送進集中營毒氣室的命運。

1980年初，一名猶太人「大浩劫」的倖存者把這份名單交給澳洲作家坎尼利
（Thomas Keneally），並且建議他把這個故事寫下來。1982年坎尼利出版小說《辛德勒
的方舟》（Schindler's Ark），並且獲得英國布克獎。

1993年名導演史蒂芬史匹柏把這個故事搬上銀幕後（由連恩尼遜飾演辛德勒），更
讓辛德勒英勇救人的故事從此知名於世。

該圖書館的共同館長派克形容這份名單是「二十世紀最具震撼力的文件之一」；是
「人類歷史的重要資產」；而且更驚訝它竟然是在自己掌管的圖書內館內被發現。

派克說，小說與電影都描述名單只有一份，但事實上辛德勒先後發出過好幾份救人
的名單。


http://www.nownews.com/2009/04/06/334-2433130.htm

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Original 'Schindler's List' found in Sydney
April 6, 2009

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 801 Jews saved from the Holocaust by the businessman, as they sifted
through boxes of Australian author Thomas Keneally's manuscript material.

The 13-page document, a yellowed and fragile carbon typescript copy of the
original, was found between research notes and German newspaper clippings in
one of the boxes, library co-curator Olwen Pryke said.

Pryke described the 13-page list as "one of the most powerful documents of
the 20th Century" and was stunned to find it in the library's collection.

"This list was hurriedly typed on April 18, 1945, in the closing days of
WWII, and it saved 801 men from the gas chambers," she said.

"It's an incredibly moving piece of history."

She said the library had no idea the list was among six boxes of material
acquired in 1996 relating to Keneally's Booker Prize-winning novel,
originally published as "Schindler's Ark".

The 1982 novel told the story of how the roguish Schindler discovered his
conscience and risked his life to save more than 1,000 Jews from the Nazis.

Hollywood director Steven Spielberg turned it into a film in 1993 starring
Liam Neeson as Schindler and Ralph Fiennes as the head of an SS-run camp.

Pryke said that, although the novel and film implied there was a single,
definitive list, Schindler actually compiled a number of them as he persuaded
Nazi bureaucrats not to send his workers to the death camps.

She said the document found by the library was given to Keneally in 1980 by
Leopold Pfefferberg -- named on the list as Jewish worker number 173 -- when
he was persuading the novelist to write Schindler's story.

As such, it was the list that inspired Keneally to tell the world about
Schindler's heroics, she said.

Pryke said she had no idea how much the list was worth.

Schindler, born in a German-speaking part of Austria-Hungary in 1908, began
the war as a card-carrying Nazi who used his connections to gain control of a
factory in Krakow, Poland, shortly after Hitler invaded the country.

He used Jewish labour in the factory but, as the war progressed, he became
appalled at the conduct of the Nazis.

Using bribery and charm, he persuaded officials that his workers were vital
to the war effort and should not be sent to the death camps.

Schindler died relatively unknown in 1974, but he gained public recognition
following Keneally's book and Spielberg's film.


Sydney Morning Herald
http://0rz.tw/apEAV

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