Thomas Keneally - literary papers and oral history interviews concerning Schindler's Ark, 1980-1982 (and other novels) with research material and sound recordings, 1943-1980

MLMSS 6154
MLOH 223

fonds

1943-1982

Textual Records, Oral Histories, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Graphic Materials, Photographs

131878

Microfilm : CY 4374, frames 1-407 (MLMSS 6154/1, Item 1: Longhand ms.).
Microfilm : CY 4374, frames 408-998 (MLMSS 6154/1, Item 2: Typescript draft edited for the American edition).
Sound Recording : MLOH 223/1-18

0.8 metres of textual material (6 boxes) - manuscript, typescript, and printed
18 audiocassettes (21 hr., 21 min.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape

Thomas Keneally was born in 1935 in Sydney. He trained for the Catholic priesthood but withdrew in 1960 before ordination. He worked as a schoolteacher before the publication of his first novel, The Place at Whitton, in 1964. Since then he has been a prolific full time writer. He won the Miles Franklin award in 1967 with Bring Larks and Heroes and again in 1968 with A Dutiful Daughter. Schindler's Ark (published in the USA as Schindler's List) won the Booker Prize in 1982 and was made into an award-winning film in 1993. Other novels include The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1972), Blood Red, Sister Rose, (1974), Gossip from the Forest (1975), Confederates (1979), Season in Purgatory (1979), The Playmaker (1987), Flying Hero Class (1991) and Jacko (1993). He has also written television and film scripts. He received the Order of Australia in 1983.

SERIES 01
Working manuscripts, 1980-1982
'Longhand Ms.'; Typescript draft edited for the American edition (Call No.: ML MSS 6154/1: Issue CY 4374, frames 1-998)
'Retypings Oskar' (Ms. & typescript); 'Schindler's List - marked-up Ms. with author's corrections' (Call No.: ML MSS 6154/2)
'Schindler's Ark - uncorrected proofs'; 'Schindler's List - page proofs' (Call No.: ML MSS 6154/3)

SERIES 02
Research material, 1943-1981
Research files for Schindler's List - notes (3 volumes). File cards as speech notes and on First Fleet and early colony of New South Wales, with business card of Leo Rosner; interviews; letters & printed material (1 volume); (Call No.: ML MSS 6154/4)
'Research - Oskar Schindler - 1939, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945' (5 vols); 'Early Oskar typings' - part of an early draft titled 'Oskar! A study of a rescue and the rescued'; 'The Oskar Schindler Story Vault Copy' - 'Producer's preliminary story analysis and fact survey May 1964' (Call No.: ML MSS 6154/5)
'Research - Oskar Schindler - Early Life'; 'Research Photographs'; 'Introduction to Oskar's Story'; 'Photographs & research material'; 'Notes on Schindler's List'; 'Cracow Research' - includes tourist brochures and maps, articles on the persecution of the Jews, material concerning Plaszow Concentration Camp and the Camp Commandant Amon Goeth (Call No.: ML MSS 6154/6)

SERIES 03
Audio cassettes, c.1979-c.1981
Interviews with Schindler Jews and notes from the interviews. Also includes notes and drafts for other works by Keneally:
'The Rossners'. Includes a note re Hirschfeld. (Call No.: MLOH 223/1)
'The Rossners continued' (Call No.: MLOH 223/2)
'Fagin, Hirschfeld, Kinzlinger, Garde, Pemper' (Call No.: MLOH 223/3)
'Pemper continued, Bronislawa Horowitz, Regina Horowitz (wife of Dolek)' (Call No.: MLOH 223/4)
'The Fagins and Paul Page' (Call No.: MLOH 223/5)
'Plashow, Dr Alexandriewicz, Paul Page on Ghetto' (Call No.: MLOH 223/6)
'Sophia Stern, Danka and Idek Schindell, Begski, Biberstein' (Call No.: MLOH 223/7)
'Samu Springmann - Rescue operations in Hungary and Schindler first visit to Budapest' (Call No.: MLOH 223/8)
'Samu Springmann revised, Regina and Bronia Horowitz as edited from the original' (Call No.: MLOH 223/9)
'Samu Springmann, Dr Dressner' (Call No.: MLOH 223/10)
'Confederates'. Partial draft of this novel published in 1979. (Call No.: MLOH 223/11-12)
'Passenger'. Partial draft of this novel published in 1979 (Call No.: MLOH 223/13)
'Too Many People Are Disappearing'. Partial draft (Call No.: MLOH 223/14-15)
'Catherine'. Draft. (Call No.: MLOH 223/16-17)
'Chapter 15'. Includes letter to Stephen, Jacques & Stephen concerning breach of copyright case, 1979 involving Keneally's novel Season in Purgatory (Call No.: MLOH 223/18)

English, German, Polish, Italian, French

Schindler's Ark is a novel which tells the authentic story of how the German industrialist Oskar Schindler saved thousands of Jews from death at the hands of the Nazis during World War II.

Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection - State Library of New South Wales (April 2009-March 2010). Applies to: MLMSS 6154/1;6