Leo Rosner Leo Rosner Leopold "Leo" Rosner (26 June 1918 – 10 October 2008) was a Polish-born Australian musician. Rosner, who was Jewish, survived the Holocaust in Nazi concentration camps during World War II by playing his accordion for Nazi officials. This earned the attention of Oskar Schindler, who saved his life by having him placed on his famous list. His story became known after Australian author Thomas Keneally's 1982 novel, "Schindler's Ark", was adapted into Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning film, "Schindler's List". He appeared in the epilogue of the film at the Schindler's grave on Mount Zion. Rosner was born in Kraków,
Thomas Keneally Schindler was that "it was the fact that you couldn't say where opportunism ended and altruism began. And I like the subversive fact that the spirit breatheth where it will. That is, that good will emerge from the most unlikely places". The book was later made into a film titled "Schindler's List" (1993) directed by Steven Spielberg, earning the director his first Best Director Oscar. Keneally's meeting with Pfefferberg and their research tours are detailed in "Searching for Schindler: A Memoir" (2007). Some of the Pfefferberg documents that inspired Keneally are now housed in the State Library of New South