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Schindler’s Ark by Australian author Thomas Keneally Published in 1982 after extensive research. Winner of the 1982 Booker Prize for Fiction Steven Spielberg read Keneallys fact-based novel during the filming of ET, but it was ten years before he made his vision of a film about the Holocaust a reality. Background for Schindler’s Ark In October 1980, author Thomas Keneally was on his way back to Australia after a book signing when he stopped en route to the airport to buy a new briefcase in a Beverly Hills luggage shop owned by Leopold - who had been one of the 1200 saved by Schindler. In the 50 minutes Keneally spent waiting for his credit card payment to clear, Pfefferberg persuaded him to go to the back room where the shopkeeper kept two cabinets filled with documents he had collected. Pfefferberg - who had told his story to every writer and producer who ever came into his store - eventually wore down Keneallys reluctance, and the writer chose to make the story into his next book.  Schindler-Pfefferberg Connection Poldek Pfefferberg was born in 1913 in Krakow, Poland. He attended high school in Krakow and earned a master’s degree in philosophy and physical education from Krakow University. He taught high school in Krakow until 1939 when the Germans closed all Jewish schools. Pfefferberg fought in the Polish Army against the Nazis with the rank of lieutenant and was wounded and arrested. He escaped and went to his mothers house in Krakow. One day, in November 1939, a man knocked on the door, and Pfefferberg thought it was the Gestapo. It wasnt. It was Oscar Schindler, a Sudeten-German businessman who had purchased an enamelware factory that had been confiscated from Jews. Schindler had come to ask Pfefferberg`s mother, an interior designer, to redecorate his new apartment.I was hiding in the next room, Pfefferberg later said, but listening to Schindler, I knew he wasnt Gestapo. Even then I could tell he was a good man. I began to talk to him and we b