New Schindler’s List Discovered

A previously unknown version of the famous “Schindler’s List” containing 801 names of Jewish forced labourers rescued from the German Nazis has been found in a library in Australia.

According to Hungarian Hirado Online, the list, found in an the State Library of New South Wales, Australia, was given to author Thomas Kenneally by Leopold Pfefferberg, who is labourer number 173 on the list. The former Nazi forced labourer gave the Australian author the 13-page list in 1980 when he convinced him to write Schindler’s story. The Australian wrote the novel “Schindler’s Ark” on which Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning film was based. Kenneally later donated his research material, in which the list was found, to the library. Kenneally told the Australian Morning Herald this was the only time in his life that someone came up to him and told him he had a great story that he actually wrote. Israel’s Ha’aretz newspaper said there were in fact many lists made out by Schindler to send to various German authorities. The list in question is a 1945 copy of an original. Oskar Schindler was an Sudeten German industrialist and a card-carrying National Socialist (Nazi). He saved the lives of the 1,200 Jews working as forced labourers in his factory. He died in 1974 at the age of 66. He was recognised in 1969 by Israel’s Yad Vashem Memorial to the Holocaust as a ”Righteous Among the Nations.”