Janek dresner biography of albert

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Thomas Keneally
1982

Introduction

Schindler's List recreates the true story of Oskar Schindler, the Czech-born southern German industrialist who risked his life to save over 1,100 of his Jewish factory workers from the death camps in Nazi-occupied Poland.

At one point while he's away, year-old Janek Dresner is accused of sabotage (when in fact, he's just ignorant about metalwork).

The little girl, who really used to wear a red coat, was famous in the ghetto in hiding from the Germans, but eventually she was discovered and exterminated.

Janek Dresner is Juda and Mrs. Dresner's son, Genia's cousin, and Danka Dresner's brother.

One of the camp workers, Janek Dresner, is accused of sabotage of the camp machinery by a German engineer supervisor.

The film follows Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved more than a thousand mostly Polish–Jewish refugees from the Holocaust.

Thomas Keneally's "documentary novel," based on the recollections of the Schindlerjuden (Schindler's Jews), Schindler himself, and other witnesses, is told in a series of snapshot stories. It recounts the lives of the flamboyant profiteer and womanizer Schindler; Schindler's long-suffering wife, Emilie; the brutal SS (Nazi secret service) commandant Amon Goeth; Schindler's quietly courageous factory manager, Itzhak Stern; and dozens of other Jews who underwent the horrors of the Nazi machinery.

At the center of the story, though, are the actions and ambitions of Schin