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Some 50 years later, the horror of the Holocaust still plagues him. "It's every night. Sometimes I scream and my wife wakes me up. The memories will never go away," he said. On Monday, Mr. Huppert was among 2,200 Detroiters attend- ing a Jewish Federation-spon- sored speech by Schindler's List author Thomas Keneally. The crowd filled the sanctuary at Adat Shalom Synagogue and spilled over into the social hall, where the audience watched Mr. Keneally on closed-circuit televi- sion. "The series of accidents that led to the writing of the book and then the film are remarkable enough to still astound me. I can't get enough of speaking about them," Mr. Keneally said. "It's like talking about when you've met someone you love." In 1980, the native Australian stopped at a luggage store in Bev- erly Hills, Calif., where he met owner Leopold Pfefferberg, a Schindler Jew. Intrigued by the survivor's description of the hero- ic, yet checkered, Oskar Schindler, Mr. Keneally em- barked upon the novel, which — NOVI — B. Dalton Border's Book Store Twelve Oaks Novi Rd. & 1-96 Doubleday Books Twelve Oaks — ANN ARBOR — Borders State & Liberty STYLE 27676 Franklin Road • Southfield, MI 48034.810-354-6060 • FAX 810-354-1210 PUBLISHED BY THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Thomas Keneally won the Booker Prize for Fiction watch it? "Mind you, I don't think those in 1983. "I'm a questionable Catholic in __figures are necessarily an index a different way from Oskar. Os- of anti-Semitism. Those same 22 kar was a sensualist. I have percent don't know where Cana- doubts, you see, which is a bit dif- da is, either." The movie was released this ferent from being a sensualist. year in a limited number of cin- It's not as much fun. "He was a man out of control, emas. It won an Oscar this but thank God he was out of con- spring. Often, authors deplore the film trol in the right way ... I was at- tracted by the fact that virtue adaptation of their books. Mr. would emerge in this unlikely Keneally, however, was delight- man," he said. "I always like it ed with the screenwriter's treat- when virtue arises in people the ment of Schindler's List. There were elements of the story that bishops say it shouldn't have. "On top of that, I realize that each medium highlighted. The book explored Mr. Oskar's story gave you a lens, a focus, through which you could Schindler's involvement in Ger- man intelligence as well as his look at that whole giant phe- black-market activities which nomenon of the Holocaust. "I've realize now, too, that I earned him most of the millions never understood classic anti- he used to bribe Nazi officials and save Jewish lives. Semitism." Mr. Keneally said he learned a lot through writing the book, and still more in 1982, when he started working with director Steven Spielberg to produce the film. The mission of both men — Thomas Keneally was to create a movie to educate the world about the Holocaust. The movie, on the other hand., But Schindler's List almost accentuated the symbiotic rela- didn't happen. "The film wasn't immediately tionship of Mr. Schindler and the made. Steven couldn't get the Jews who worked for him. "I believe there was a rough screenplay he wanted and he was afraid of the reaction of the crit- sort of covenant operating be- ics. He was worried about how to tween Oskar and these workers," make it in a manner that he said. "The covenant was: wouldn't trivialize it. He left it in keep you more or less safe here limbo for a long time," Mr. Ke- and you work for me. If ever you get into the furnace, I'll try to neally said. "Even when the film was pluck you out." Mr. Keneally has published made, Spielberg wondered who would watch it in America. The more than 25 books during his 22 percent of the young who career. His most recent works in- think that the Holocaust might clude the novels Playmaker, , As- not have happened? Would they mara and Flying Hero Class. The author said he is glad Schindler's List hit the big screen this year. `Phis was the best of times be- cause the deniers are at their strongest. The aged, who had gone through the Holocaust, are looking at going into the dark- ness. This is the period, of course, when the young wonder if Hitler was real. If it all really happened. "I wrote the book, not just for Jews, but also for gentiles be- cause it is the most extreme les- son we have, and if repressed it will most certainly recur. "Steven's film has made the Holocaust altogether less deni- able and that is a great service," he said. "If I've also had a part in making the Holocaust less deni- able — though, in the start, I was a dumb goy looking for a brief- case — then I'm very grate- fti l. "Oskar was a sensualist." ))