Original Schindler's list being auctioned on eBay, bidding starts at $3 million
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[quote]One of four known original copies of Schindler's list is currently being auctioned off on eBay. The document contains the names of hundreds of Jews who were employed by Oskar Schindler during the Holocaust — effectively saving them from Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime.[/quote]
3 Million!?!?!? Oy VEY!
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Pathetic. Give it to a museum or something, as a triumph of man and inspiration.
Schindler's list listed on an ebay list
[QUOTE=ThatSprite;41522159]Schindler's list listed on an ebay listing[/QUOTE]
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It belongs in a museum!, etc.
Would have been interesting to have it, if I had the cash.
So much gets stored in private collections and never seen again.
The Chinese government own all artifacts found and I admire that because they do put effort in restoring and keeping up its heritage, e.g. Terracotta soldiers.
You can buy something like this? Thats kind of messed up. Hopefully some wealthy person buys it and gets it set up in a museum in Jerusalem or something.
[quote]One of [b]four[/b] known original copies of Schindler's list is currently being auctioned off on eBay.[/quote]
I'd say this is important. I went to the Schindler museum in Kraków recently on holiday, and they had every single name on an art display, and I believe they at least had a photograph of the list itself. I'm guessing another copy is probably somewhere in a museum.
Also, I'm pretty certain the actual, original list has been lost, right? This is just part of it, or a typed up version, I believe.
3 million bucks for some 70 year old documents?
No thanks.
[QUOTE=Cureless;41523104]3 million bucks for some 70 year old documents?
No thanks.[/QUOTE]
I don't think you understand
[QUOTE=Cureless;41523104]3 million bucks for some 70 year old documents?
No thanks.[/QUOTE]
How terribly ignorant of you.
[QUOTE=Cureless;41523104]3 million bucks for some 70 year old documents?
No thanks.[/QUOTE]
I'm honestly surprised, I think 3 million is pretty low for how significant it is
I would never buy this, unless I had enough money that $3mil was peanuts to me and I would donate it to a museum. Giving such a significant piece of history to someone that's potentially unqualified to care for it is a tragedy.
[QUOTE=Furioso;41525177]I'm honestly surprised, I think 3 million is pretty low for how significant it is[/QUOTE]
It has more sentimental value than any actual usefulness to one person. Its perceived worth is entirely dependent on the individual.
it needs to be in a holocaust museum or in the home of one of the descendants of the people schindler saved imo
I'm going to buy it and take it to a Super Market; they must sell juice somewhere!
[QUOTE=Cureless;41523104]3 million bucks for some 70 year old documents?
No thanks.[/QUOTE]
For more than a thousand people, that piece of paper was what kept them alive during the Holocaust.
[QUOTE=Cureless;41523104]3 million bucks for some 70 year old documents?
No thanks.[/QUOTE]
Honestly misread your username as 'Clueless'
I think that would've been a better username for you anyway.
guys it's 1 of 4 copies, there are 3 others somewhere
I wonder what they'd do if I bought it then ripped it up, then reported it as broken and demanded a refund.
[QUOTE=john_pelphre;41522081]Pathetic. Give it to a museum or something, as a triumph of man and inspiration.[/QUOTE]
Can't make dem dolla dolla bills
[QUOTE=Jimentoon;41530342]I wonder what they'd do if I bought it then ripped it up, then reported it as broken and demanded a refund.[/QUOTE]
they'd think you were a retard
what if an old retired SS officer buys the list and hunts down the still living people on there?
[QUOTE=willtheoct;41530481]what if an old retired SS officer buys the list and hunts down the still living people on there?[/QUOTE]
He'd be pretty old and weak in the knees, it may take him a while
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[QUOTE=AWarGuy;41525111]How terribly ignorant of you.[/QUOTE]
I don't see how he's being ignorant.
Sure, it's a historically/emotionally important thing, but at the end of the day it's just an old document and I don't know why anyone would buy that. I mean, (in my opinion) it's one of these cases where the content of the document is quite important but the item itself is pretty worthless.
[QUOTE=Kljunas;41530498]I don't see how he's being ignorant.
Sure, it's a historically/emotionally important thing, but at the end of the day it's just an old document and I don't know why anyone would buy that. I mean, (in my opinion) it's one of these cases where the content of the document is quite important but the item itself is pretty worthless.[/QUOTE]
as are all historical documents.
[QUOTE=willtheoct;41530536]as are all historical documents.[/QUOTE]
Historical items are only worth so much as their sentimental value, whatever was used to make them is almost always dirt cheap.
Have fun paying for that via Paypal.
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