Schindler's Ark Schindler's Ark Schindler's Ark (released in America as Schindler's List) is a Booker Prize-winning historical fiction novel published in 1982 by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally, which was later adapted into the highly successful movie "Schindler's List" directed by Steven Spielberg. The United States version of the book was called "Schindler's List" from the beginning; it was later reissued in Commonwealth countries under that name as well. The novel was also awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction in 1983. The book tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a Nazi Party member who turns into an unlikely hero by
Pauline Gibling Schindler in 1976, shortly before her death, to maintain the house. It has since become an arts center, and is open for architectural tours. A musical performance based on Schindler's life, "Pauline: An Opera", was presented by architects Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena at Schindler House, in October 2013. Pauline Gibling Schindler Pauline Gibling Schindler (March 19, 1893 – May 4, 1977) was an American composer, educator, editor, and arts promoter, especially influential in supporting modern art in Southern California. Her husband was architect Rudolph Schindler. Sophie Pauline Gibling was born in Minneapolis in 1893, the daughter of Edmund James and