A carbon copy of the list compiled by the German industrialist Oskar Schindler has been found by a researcher at 
the New South Wales Library in Sydney, Australia. Made famous by Steven Spielberg’s 1993 movie of the same name, Oscar Schindler’s list helped hundreds of Jewish workers escape death in the Holocaust during World War II. It is believed that the original list, from which the carbons were made, did not survive.
The list was found sandwiched between research notes and German newspaper clippings gathered by Australian author, Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler’s Ark – (upon which the movie was based).
The list is made up of thirteen pages of yellowing and fragile paper, upon which are typed the names and nationalities of 801 Jewish people.
Neither the New South Wales library nor the book dealer, from whom it purchased the six boxes of material in 1996, knew the list was hidden among the documents. It seems that author Keneally was handed the list almost 30 years ago in a shop in Los Angeles, by one of the people whom Schindler helped – Leopold Pfefferberg, Jewish worker number 173 on the now famous list.
For information in the news today about the find, see:
Schindler’s List Found in Sydney – BBC
