JERUSALEM, OCT 18: Officials at Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Centre have said they were waiting with `bated breath' to receive a copy of Schindler's List, a list of the 1,200 Jewish forced labourers saved from Nazi death camps.The rediscovery of Oskar Schindler's list of inmates saved by `essential' wartime work was announced in Germany on Friday.Mordechai Paldiel, head of the righteous Gentiles department at Yad Vashem, said the centre in particular wanted to see whether the list found really was the original list of 1,200 Jews typed up in the Czech town of Bruennlitz in April 1945, or whether it was a copy.The list, along with other papers belonging to Schindler, a German industrialist who created work for Jews in Poland to save them from being put to death by the Nazis, was found in a forgotten suitcase, the Stuttgarter Zeitung newspaper said.`We are waiting with bated breath to receive the list. We requested that it be sent urgently,' Paldiel, whose department dealswith non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the holocaust, told DPA yesterday.He said there were two lists, the April 1945 one being the second. The first version was typed in 1944 at the Cracow factory by Schindler's Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern. It saved everyone on it from certain death in the gross-rosen or Auschwitz death camps.Schindler moved more than 1,000 Jews from his factory in Cracow to a new factory in Bruennlitz. They were liberated by the Russians in the closing weeks of World War II.Schindler's exploits were the subject of Steven Spielberg's 1993 Oscar-winning film.The Stuttgarter Zeitung said Friday it had acquired possession of the long-lost papers and would gradually publish them before passing them to holocaust historians at Yad Vashem.The suitcase was discovered in the German town of Hildesheim by a man and his wife clearing the family attic. It contained hundreds of the German businessman's personal letters and documents from during the secondworld war right up to his death.Photos from the suitcase showing Schindler with Jewish workers had been confirmed as genuine by one of the most prominent of the so-called Schindler Jews in Israel, the newspaper said.
