Schindler's List up for sale

Mar.23rd, 2010

One of only a handful of surviving copies of Oskar Schindler's list, made famous in Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning film, is up for sale for a whopping $2.2 million.

"It's the only one remaining in private hands," Gary Zimet, who lives in upstate New York, told the London's Telegraph.

The list, compiled by Schindler and Itzhak Stern, is reportedly dated April 18, 1945, is 13 pages long, and contains 801 names. The price for the item is set and will not be auctioned off, but instead offered on a "first come, first serve" basis.

Schindler has been credited with saving more than 1,000 Jews from Nazi concentration camps near the end of World War II.

Although the film "Schindler's List" suggests there was only one list, several copies were actually drafted. Today, only a few are known to have survived, and now reside at museums in the United States and Israel. The list for sale now was discovered in an Australian library last year. It was found in a box of material that once belonged to Thomas Keneally, who wrote the award-winning novel that inspired the film.