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Schindler’s list up for sale

24 March 2010 03:14 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. The only privately held copy of a list that Oskar Schindler drew up of Jews to be saved from Hitler’s concentration camps is on sale for 1.5 million pounds ($2.4 million), the seller said, APA reports quoting â€œABC Newsâ€.
"It’s the only one remaining in private hands," said historic document sales specialist Gary Zimet, and is "arguably the most important World War II document".
Mr Zimet says the 13-page list, compiled by Schindler and accountant Itzhak Stern, is dated April 18, 1945.
The list, made famous by Steven Spielberg’s film Schindler’s List, shows the names of 801 men along with their occupations and birthdates.
Mr Zimet says he is selling the document on behalf of an anonymous seller on a "first come, first served" basis rather than at auction.
He says there were seven different versions of the list and only four others are known to have survived.
One is in the US Holocaust Museum, one at the German federal archives in Koblenz, and two others are kept at the Yad Vashem museum in Israel.