A list of Jews saved from the Nazi death camps during World War II by the German industrialist Oskar Schindler has been found in research notes at an Australian library and will go on public display on Tuesday. The list of 801 Jews was found among six boxes of papers that belonged to the Australian author Thomas Keneally who wrote the book "Schindler's Ark" that was the basis for the Oscar-winning film "Schindler's List" by Steven Spielberg. The 13-page document was found tucked between research notes and German newspaper cuttings by a researcher at the New South Wales Library in Sydney sifting through the boxes of manuscripts acquired by the library in 1996.
The list, which turned out to be a carbon copy of a list by Schindler of Jewish workers he helped to escape the Holocaust, will go on public display on Tuesday, the library said in a statement. "The original list was hurriedly typed on 18 April 1945 in the closing days of WWII, and it saved 801 men from the gas chambers," the library curator who found the list told ‘Reuters’. A spokeswoman for the library said the whereabouts of the original list was unknown.
