Schindler’s List

Schindler’s List

by

Thomas Keneally

Dolek Horowitz is Richard Horowitz and Niusia Horowitz’s father and Regina Horowitz’s husband. He and his family make Oskar Schindler’s list. When Richard is rounded up from Brinnlitz for medical experiments at Auschwitz, Dolek is taken with him, Richard survives there to be later discovered by Russians, while Dolek is shipped off to the concentration camp Mauthausen.
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Dolek Horowitz Character Timeline in Schindler’s List

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Chapter 23
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Prisoners begin competing to get their own space in Emalia. Dolek Horowitz is a purchasing officer in the camp who believes he has no chance himself... (full context)
Chapter 33
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...Horowitz, are spotted and rounded up. The parents of the children (including Henry Rosner and Dolek Horowitz) are also rounded up, and they’re all taken by train to Auschwitz. (full context)
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...does the same. Olek then shows some potatoes to prove he won’t starve. Their fathers, Dolek and Henry, are away working at the rock quarry—but when Henry Rosner comes back, he... (full context)
Chapter 36
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...two cattle cars. Many others in Auschwitz are also being moved around at this time. Dolek Horowitz is shipped away to Mauthausen, though his son Richard will stay and eventually be... (full context)