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'Schindler's list' to sell for £1.5m

The only privately held copy of a list that Oskar Schindler drew up of Jews to be saved from Nazi concentration camps is on sale for $2.2 million (£1.5m)

The list compiled by Schindler and the accountant Itzhak Stern – and made famous in the Hollywood movie "Schindler's List" by Steven Spielberg – is dated April 18, 1945, and 13 pages long, Mr Zimet said.

Zimet, who runs the collector's website MomentsInTime.com, said he is selling the document on a "first come, first served" basis – rather than at auction – on behalf of an anonymous seller.

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)