Where Light and Shadow Meet: A Memoir

Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist and counterintelligence operative made famous by Steven Spielberg's movie Schindler's List, did not think of himself as a hero, nor even as a particularly nice man. Nor should he have, suggests this memoir by his widow. Although he tried to temper the savage natures of men such as concentration camp commander Amon Goeth, and although he and Emilie managed to save the lives of several thousand Jewish inmates, his eye seems always to have been on the personal gain to be had in a given situation. The Schindlers emigrated to Argentina after the war and took up farming; Oskar later abandoned Emilie and returned to Europe. Where Light and Shadow Meet is a decidedly minor but nonetheless interesting addition to the literature of the Holocaust.