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NJDhockeyfan3/24/2010 7:01:53 am PDT

Rare Oskar Schindler list of Jewish names from World War II on sale for $2.2M

A list that saved hundreds during World War II may earn millions for one collector.

One of only a handful of surviving copies of Oskar Schindler’s famous list, which inspired Steven Spielberg’s Academy Award-winning 1993 film, is going up for sale for a whopping $2.2 million.

“This has been going on for about two years,” Gary Zimet, an upstate New York resident who runs the Web site, momentsintime.com, told the Daily News.

He was approached through his site by the item’s owner around 2008. The person told him he bought it directly from the family of Itzhak Stern, who co-authored the famed list of names with Schindler.

The item is dated April 18, 1945, is 13 pages long, and contains 801 names.

The celebrated item will not be auctioned off, Zimet said, at the request of the owner, who does not wish to be indentified. Instead, it will be offered up on a “first come, first serve” basis.