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Original copy of Schindler's list to be sold at auction

Updated on: 27 December,2010 12:31 PM IST  | 
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An original copy of Schindler's list, that helped spare more than a thousand Jews from the Nazis during the Second World War, is to soon under the hammer in New York, a media report said.

Original copy of Schindler's list to be sold at auction

An original copy of Schindler's list, that helped spare more than a thousand Jews from the Nazis during the Second World War, is to soon under the hammer in New York, a media report said.


A Manhattan judge has given upstate memorabilia dealer Gary Zimet the green light to sell the 13-page document - one of several original copies of the list of names compiled by German industrialist Oskar Schindler during the Holocaust, the 'New York Daily News' reported.


The ruling by Supreme Court Justice Louis York lifted the temporary ban on a plan to sell the list for more than USD two million. An heir to Schindler's widow had sought to block the sale.


"It's a complete victory," Zimet was quoted as saying. Marta Rosenberg, heir to German industrialist Oskar Schindler's widow, sued Zimet in May to halt the sale of the 13-page artifact, billed as one of several existing copies of the famous list. The others are in museums. She also accused Zimet of peddling a fake. "This is the real deal," Zimet said.

Schindler's efforts to save the lives of Jewish refugees was the subject of Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning film 'Schindler's List' in 1993, which was based on Thomas Keneally's book 'Schindler's Ark'.

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