Kraków, Grand Duchy of Cracow, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died
March 9, 2001(2001-03-09) (aged 87)
Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Resting place
Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery
Nationality
Polish, American
Other names
Leopold Page
Alma mater
Jagiellonian University, Kraków
Occupations
Teacher
Army officer
shopkeeper
Known for
Surviving the Holocaust, motivating creation and production of Schindler's List
Spouse
Ludmila Lewison
(m. 1941)
Children
2
Notes
[1]
Leopold "Poldek" Pfefferberg (March 20, 1913 – March 9, 2001), also known as Leopold Page,[1] 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.
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