Schindler’s List

Schindler’s List

by

Thomas Keneally

Janek Dresner Character Analysis

Janek Dresner is Juda and Mrs. Dresner’s son, Genia’s cousin, and Danka Dresner’s brother. Schindler saves Janek and other members of the Dresner family from the Płaszów concentration camp and moves them to Schindler’s factory in Brinnlitz. There, while Schindler is away, Janek makes a mistake during an inspection and is accused of sabotage. Despite Commandant Liepold’s attempts to hold a hearing and swiftly dispose of Janek, Schindler cleverly helps Janek avoid death by starting his own hearing, then breaking it up before sentencing.

Janek Dresner Quotes in Schindler’s List

The Schindler’s List quotes below are all either spoken by Janek Dresner or refer to Janek Dresner . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 34 Quotes

This deft subversion may not have satisfied Liepold and Schoenbrun. For the sitting had not reached a formal conclusion; it had not ended in a judgment. But they could not complain that Oskar had avoided a hearing, or treated it with levity.

Dresner’s account, given later in his life, raises the supposition that Brinnlitz maintained its prisoners’ lives by a series of stunts so rapid that they were nearly magical. To tell the strict truth though, Brinnlitz, both as a prison and as a manufacturing enterprise, was itself, of its nature and in a literal sense, the one sustained, dazzling, integral confidence trick.

Related Characters: Oskar Schindler, Janek Dresner , Commandant Josef Liepold
Page Number: 340
Explanation and Analysis:
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Janek Dresner Quotes in Schindler’s List

The Schindler’s List quotes below are all either spoken by Janek Dresner or refer to Janek Dresner . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Virtue and Selflessness Theme Icon
).
Chapter 34 Quotes

This deft subversion may not have satisfied Liepold and Schoenbrun. For the sitting had not reached a formal conclusion; it had not ended in a judgment. But they could not complain that Oskar had avoided a hearing, or treated it with levity.

Dresner’s account, given later in his life, raises the supposition that Brinnlitz maintained its prisoners’ lives by a series of stunts so rapid that they were nearly magical. To tell the strict truth though, Brinnlitz, both as a prison and as a manufacturing enterprise, was itself, of its nature and in a literal sense, the one sustained, dazzling, integral confidence trick.

Related Characters: Oskar Schindler, Janek Dresner , Commandant Josef Liepold
Page Number: 340
Explanation and Analysis: