Searching for Schindler (6 page)

With Poldek in 1981 at 48 Grodzka Street, his old home in Kraków, where his mother ran her interior decorating business.

With Judy at Schindler’s plaque on the “Avenue of the Righteous,” Jerusalem, 1981. (Note the briefcase purchased from Poldek.)

At Schindler’s grave in Jerusalem, 1981.

Tom at the entrance of Auschwitz 1 in 1981. (The top of the gate reads, “Work makes you free.”)

Tom with Henry Rosner, the New York—based violinist, 1981.

Poldek with child survivor Ryszard Horowitz, who went on to become a brilliant photographer.

Lewis (Lutek) Fagen and his wife, who ran a wholesale business in New York’s diamond district. In Brinnlitz, Lutek was charged by the head of the SS garrison with sabotaging a calibrated metal press. Schindler laughed the charge off.

Poldek and Misia with Tom and Jane Keneally at the Keneally family home in Sydney, 1987.

Judy and Margaret Keneally gave Tom a special homecoming at Sydney Airport after
Schindler’s Ark
was announced as the winner of the 1982 Booker Prize. The T-shirts were made by family friend Iain Finlay.

(Left to right) Judy, Poldek, Misia, Jane and Tom at a Labor Party lunch at the Regent Hotel in Sydney, where they were to meet up with Bob Hawke. This was Poldek’s first and last visit to Australia, in 1987.

An informal meeting on the set of
Schindler’s List.
(Left to right) Jane Keneally, Tom, Bonnie Curtis (Spielberg’s assistant), Steven Spielberg, Jerry Molen (producer), Kathleen Kennedy (producer).

Jane and Tom Keneally on set with the intense Ralph Fiennes.

Ben Kingsley and Steven Spielberg on the set of the re-created Plaszów camp.