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novel and to the little-known
Mr. Schindler — a German
who first used Jews as slave
labor in his factories and
protected them, later taking ac-
tive measures to save many
more.
"This film shows how hard it
was to save Jews. It wasn't too
tough to refuse to kill Jews, but
to actively help Jews was hard.
If there had been more
Schindlers, we wouldn't be talk-
ing about this," Professor
Bolkosky said.
Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig of
the Holocaust Memorial Center
in West Bloomfield said what
he has heard of the movie is an
accurate assessment of Mr.
Schindler
"Not to lessen what he did,
but there was a profit motive
involved in the beginning. Jews
were cheap labor. What makes
him so curious is that he didn't
have the venom," Rabbi
Rosenzveig said.
"No one would have thought
of Schindler as a righteous
person; his previous track
record didn't speak to it. But
when you read the rare records
of the rescuers, you will find it
wasn't the intellectuals and the
highly civilized who saved
the Jews. It was the simple peo-
ple — the farmers, the prosti-
tutes."
Martin Lowenberg was "liv-
ing day to day in hell," while
Mr. Schindler was saving lives.
At the age of 13, Mr.
Lowenberg, who today lives in
Southfield, entered Kaiserwald
concentration camp in Latvia.
His parents and twin brothers
were sent to Auschwitz. Martin
and his sister survived.
Mr. Lowenberg has read the
Keneally book and plans to see
said. "It showed the courage of
double dealing — of saving
Jewish lives and collaborating
with Nazis to do it."
For Mr.
Lowenberg,
Schindler's List was about re-
membering and reminiscing.
"The story brought back so
much association with my own
experience, even though I
wasn't one of Schindler's Jews
and I didn't even know of his
actions at the time," Mr.
Lowenberg said "This film is so
important for people who didn't
live through the trauma, the
humanity, to see what hap-
pened to the few of us who
survived, and to those who can-
not tell the story.
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the movie.
"The book was of fantastic
substance," Mr. Lowenberg
"If you were
German and
saved Jews,
you weren't a hero
after the war."
Sidney Bolkosky
"It's not possible to forget.
But we survivors must see it,
too — to set an example, to re-
mind us of how we lived every
day and how we survived."
Mr. Schindler died in 1974
and was buried in Israel. Some
of the Jews he saved knew him
well, but historians like
Professor Bolkosky and Rabbi
Rosenzveig continue to search
for bits and pieces. Professor
Bolkosky isn't optimistic he will
learn much more.
"He sort of sank into
obscurity," Professor Bolkosky
said. "If you were German,
saved Jews and actively took
measures to oppose the Nazi
efforts, you weren't a hero after
the war. You didn't talk about
it."