You know the movie Schindler's List. You may be interested in how the book that inspired the movie was first published. A shopkeeper named Leopold Page was a survivor of the Holocaust. He survived through the efforts of one man, Oskar Schindler, a Roman Catholic, who saved not only his life but the lives of 900 of his fellow Jews. Page was determined to find a writer who would be interested in telling the story of Oskar Schindler.

One day a novelist, Thomas Keneally, came into Page's shop to buy a briefcase, and Page told him his story. Keneally was intrigued and agreed to commit Schindler's story to print. What resulted was…