But it is a tribute to Leopold "Poldek" Pfefferberg, the Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor who encouraged and cajoled Keneally into writing Schindler's story and helped bully Hollywood into ...

A wildly enthusiastic shopkeeper with a thick European accent and "a touch of the Tartar in the cheeks, a barrel chest, powerful arms, a wrestler's neck," he was Leopold Pfefferberg, Poldek to his ...

One of those whom he saved, Poldek Pfefferberg, told the story to Thomas Keneally, who published his Schindler’s Ark book in 1982. Pfefferberg met with Spielberg and implored him to turn it into a ...

If it had not been for the determined leather-bag store owner Poldek Pfefferberg, Kenneally would never have heard the story which he later honed into the huge selling Schindler's Ark, from which ...

Thanks to inspiration from Holocaust survivor and Beverly Hills’ shop owner Poldek Pfefferberg, Keneally was able to tell the story of Oskar Schindler, who saved hundreds of Jewish workers in ...