Leopold Pfefferberg
Leopold Pfefferberg
Concentration camp survivor whose life was saved by
Oskar Schindler. As #173 on Schindler's
famous list, his life was spared and he worked in a factory until the
end of the war. He later immigrated to the United States where he
opened a successful leather goods business. It was at his business that
Australian author Thomas Keneally walked
in to get a briefcase repaired. Page related the story of Schindler's
Jews to Keneally, and suggested that he might want to make it the
subject of a book. Keneally demurred, telling Page that as a non-Jew he
didn't think he could do it justice but, upon later reflection decided
that Oskar Schindler's story richly deserved to be brought to the
world. For his efforts, Keneally's novel "Schindler's Ark" won the 1982
Man Booker Prize, Britain's highest literary award. When Steven
Spielberg set out to film Keneally's book he engaged Page as the the
film's technIcal advisor. Page was on set daily with Spielberg in
Poland and Israel.
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