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By Gemma Daley
April 6 (Bloomberg) -- German industrialist Oskar Schindler's list of 801 Jewish workers he helped escape death during World War II has been discovered by a researcher at Australia's New South Wales state library.
The researcher found the carbon typescript copy of the 13- page list among six boxes of research notes and newspaper clippings belonging to "Schindler's Ark" author Thomas Keneally that were donated to the library in 1996, the library said in an e-mailed statement. Library spokeswoman Vanessa Bond confirmed the discovery in a phone interview in Sydney.
"This list was hurriedly typed on 18 April 1945 in the closing days of World War II and it saved 801 men from the gas chambers," the library's Olwen Pryke said in the statement. "It's an incredibly moving piece of history."
Keneally wrote "Schindler's Ark," published in 1982, after receiving the document from Leopold Pfefferberg, Jewish worker number 173 on the list, according to the statement. The book was adapted into the Steven Spielberg movie "Schindler's List" in 1993.
The list will be displayed at the library and online from tomorrow, the statement said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Gemma Daley in Canberra at [email protected]
Schindler?s List Found by Australian State Library Researcher - Bloomberg.com
April 6 (Bloomberg) -- German industrialist Oskar Schindler's list of 801 Jewish workers he helped escape death during World War II has been discovered by a researcher at Australia's New South Wales state library.
The researcher found the carbon typescript copy of the 13- page list among six boxes of research notes and newspaper clippings belonging to "Schindler's Ark" author Thomas Keneally that were donated to the library in 1996, the library said in an e-mailed statement. Library spokeswoman Vanessa Bond confirmed the discovery in a phone interview in Sydney.
"This list was hurriedly typed on 18 April 1945 in the closing days of World War II and it saved 801 men from the gas chambers," the library's Olwen Pryke said in the statement. "It's an incredibly moving piece of history."
Keneally wrote "Schindler's Ark," published in 1982, after receiving the document from Leopold Pfefferberg, Jewish worker number 173 on the list, according to the statement. The book was adapted into the Steven Spielberg movie "Schindler's List" in 1993.
The list will be displayed at the library and online from tomorrow, the statement said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Gemma Daley in Canberra at [email protected]
Schindler?s List Found by Australian State Library Researcher - Bloomberg.com
