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charlie and algernon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-10 12:19 PM
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You can buy Schindler's List for $2.2 Million (THE actual list)
Edited on Wed Mar-24-10 12:21 PM by charlie and algernon
NY Dealer Offers "Schindler's List" for Sale

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York memorabilia dealer is selling what he claims is the last privately-owned copy of a World War Two manuscript of Jewish names known as "Schindler's list" and made famous in a 1993 movie of the same name.

The list was kept by German industrialist Oskar Schindler, who saved more than a 1000 Jewish lives from the Holocaust by employing them in his factory during World War Two.

New York memorabilia dealer Gary Zimet, who is seeking $2.2 million for his list, said three others are owned by museums, including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.

Dated April 18, 1945, typed on onion paper, the slightly frayed list being sold by Zimet contains 801 all-male names, and is 14-pages long. It is a carbon copy made at the time it was typed, and it details the names of the workers along with their birthdates and jobs.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=10189438
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NYC_SKP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-10 01:03 PM
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1. It would be hard for me, if I was the owner, to profit from the sale.
I'd be tempted, but I cannot imagine not selling it and sending the net proceeds to some human rights organization or worthy cause.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-10 01:05 PM
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2. If I were to do a sale like that it would be to raise funds for a worthy cause
but that's about it.
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-10 01:36 PM
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4. I know.
I would donate this where more people could see it. Never forget, after all.
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charlie and algernon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-10 01:42 PM
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5. yeah, that's what I was thinking
why not offer museums the chance to bid for it first? Or, even better, outright DONATE it to a museum.
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-10 01:32 PM
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3. Here it is.
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