Poldek Pfefferberg
Poldek Pfefferberg | |
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| Born | Leopold Pfefferberg March 20, 1913 |
| Died | March 9, 2001 (aged 87) |
| Resting place | Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery |
| Nationality | Polish, American |
| Other names | Leopold Page |
| Alma mater | Jagiellonian University, Kraków |
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| Known for | Surviving the Holocaust, motivating creation and production of Schindler's List |
| Spouse |
Ludmila Lewison (m. 1941) |
| Children | 2 |
| Notes | |
Leopold "Poldek" Pfefferberg (March 20, 1913 – March 9, 2001), also known as Leopold Page, was a Polish-American Holocaust survivor who inspired the Australian writer Thomas Keneally to write the Booker Prize-winning novel Schindler's Ark, which in turn was the basis for Steven Spielberg's critically acclaimed 1993 film Schindler's List.