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Copy of Schindler's List for Sale for $2.2M

(March 22) -- How to calculate the monetary value of history? For the families of the 801 mostly Polish Jews whose names appear on a 13-page document known as Schindler's List, there is no such such formula. It was their inclusion on the list, after all, that spared them from the Nazi death camps of World War II. Dated...

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05/30/12 Top 15 great films we'd never watch again Source: Times Live - South Africa This is essentially an exploration of death for 10-year-olds.
04/25/12 Bankruptcy dispute, deterioration marring plans for... Source: St. Louis Jewish News - St. Louis MO The windows are smashed, the doors stand agape and the keys in the rusting padlocks have not been turned for years.
04/19/12 Holocaust Remembrance Day Event: Laura... Source: Orange County Weekly - Santa Ana CA A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor, the author recounts her harrowing march through eight concentration campsâbeginning with her decision to leave school to be with her family through the terror of it all.
04/01/12 Portraits of Holocaust survivors on display in Tenafly Source: NorthJersey.com - Hackensack NJ Two dozen portraits peer out from the walls of the Waltuch Art Gallery on the second floor of the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades.

Background on Oskar Schindler

Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was an ethnic German industrialist born in Moravia. He is credited with saving over 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories, which were located in what is now Poland and the Czech Republic respectively.

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