The novel Schindler's List, which was also the basis for the film, is reaching Slovenian readers more than 30 years after the publication of the original by Thomas Keneally. It was published by the Celjska Mohorjeva družba in a translation by Rudi Meden. According to him, it is not only a testimony of history, but also asks everyone the question of how they would act in a moment of ethical dilemma.

The presentation of the translation in the bookstore on Nazorjeva was introduced by excerpts from the film of the same name, directed by Steven Spielberg 11 years after the novel was published: a scene about how Schindler saved one of the Jews, and a scene with a girl in a red coat hiding under the bed.

According to the translator, the scene of the girl, a real person, was the decisive moment in which German entrepreneur Oskar Schindler, a member of the National Socialists who saved around 1,200 Jews from death in camps in Poland during World War II, decided to act against the regime.

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