Copy of ‘Schindler’s List’ on sale for 2.2 million dollars

One of the remaining five copies of the famous ‘Schindler's List’ has been put up for sale for the price of US$ 2.2 million. German industrialist Oskar Schindler created the list of names to save Jews from deportation to the Nazi death camps. It contains details of 801 men along with their occupations and birth dates. "It is the only one [of the lists drawn up by Schindler] remaining in private hands," Gary Zimet, the New York-based seller of the document, said, explaining that it would be sold on a first-come, first-serve basis.

The list was compiled by Schindler and his Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern. It was featured in Steven Spielberg's famous 1994 movie ‘Schindler’s List’.

Schindler gave the Nazis up to ten different lists of names. Only four others are known to have survived. One is kept in the US Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, another one at the German Federal Archive in Koblenz, and two others are at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.

Schindler compiled the lists to prove to the Nazis that the workers on it were essential to the war effort. He emigrated to Argentina with his wife, Emilie, after the war but returned to Germany in 1958, where he died in 1974 at the age of 66. He is buried in Jerusalem and was named a Righteous Gentile Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.