Ben Keneally Ben Keneally Ben Keneally is an Australian Labor Party politician. He was the Mayor of Botany Bay from 2012–2016. He is the husband of former NSW Premier Kristina Keneally. Keneally grew up in Gladesville, New South Wales. Educated at Holy Cross College, Ryde and the University of Sydney, Keneally previously worked as a management consultant, for Medical Imaging Australia Limited (MIA), as a director within the NSW Department of Family and Community Services, and finally for an environmental consultancy, before entering politics. Keneally was originally planning to challenge Deirdre Grusovin for Labor preselection in the state seat of Heffron in
Schindler's Ark saving 1,200 Jews from concentration camps all over Poland and Germany. It is a work of historical fiction which describes actual people and places with fictional events, dialogue and scenes added by the author and reconstructed dialogue where exact details are unknown. Keneally wrote a number of well received novels before and after "Schindler's Ark"; however, it has since gone on to become his most well-known and celebrated work. Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor, inspired Keneally to write "Schindler's Ark". After the war, Pfefferberg had tried on a number of occasions to interest the screenwriters and filmmakers he met through