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Schindler’s list will be publicly auctioned — one of only four existing copies in the world

“Schindler’s List” is being auctioned off on eBay.

No, not a DVD of the Oscar-winning Steven Spielberg film, but one of the original Schindler’s lists — the only one ever to go on the open market — will be publicly auctioned on the popular shopping Web site.

Liam Neeson starred as German industrialist Oskar Schindler in the 1993 film “Schindler’s List.” (
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LIFESAVER: One of four remaining copies of the lists that Oskar Schindler (above) created to save Jewish lives in the Holocaust. (AP)

LIFESAVER: One of four remaining copies of the lists that Oskar Schindler (above) created to save Jewish lives in the Holocaust. (AP)

The reserve price is an eye-popping $3 million.

But its sellers, California collectors Gary Zimet and Eric Gazin, are hoping it will go for as high as $5 million.

“Enter US $3,000,000.00 or more” the listing instructed bidders when it went live at 9 p.m. EDT last night, according to an advance copy obtained by The Post. The bidding will go on for 10 days.

“Free Local Pickup” the listing will advise. “Item location: Israel.”

“We decided to sell the list on eBay because it has over 100 million worldwide members, and this is a global story,” Gazin told The Post.

“There are billionaires using the site, wealthy celebrities,” said Gazin, who is the president of AuctionCause.com.

“We like the platform.”

Schindlers List by New York Post

The “list” was named for Oskar Schindler, a businessman from Germany who is credited with saving more than 1,000 Jewish refugees from the Nazis by deeming them essential workers for his enamel-works factories.

Of the seven original versions of the list, only four are known to still exist — including two in Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust Memorial Museum, and one in the US Holocaust Museum in Washington.

The one being offered for sale on eBay tonight is 14 onion-skin pages long.

The date April 18, 1945, is written in pencil on the first page. It lists 801 male names.

“It is extremely rare that a document of this historical significance is put on the market,” Zimet said.

“Many of the survivors on this list and their descendants moved to the United States, and there are names on this list which will sound very familiar to New Yorkers.”

The version being auctioned on eBay has been for sale before. Zimet offered it for $2.2 million in 2010, on behalf of its then-owner, the nephew of Schindler confidant Itzhak Stern — played by Ben Kingsley in the 1993 movie.

Stern is credited with typing each of the versions of the list; his nephew, Nathan Stern, sold the list for an undisclosed price to the current owner, an unidentified collector.

“Stern gave the list to his nephew, who sold it to a private collector in 2011,” Zimet said. “Now this collector wishes to sell it.”

The winning bidder will also receive an affidavit from Stern’s nephew affirming its provenance, Gazin said.

“Don’t miss your chance to own a piece of history that has inspired many on the difference one person can make in the face of great danger!” the auction site will read.

The winner will have to cough up a $10,000 deposit within 12 hours of winning — via wire transfer, credit card or PayPal — with the balance due within seven days.

Be warned: there are no returns or exchanges, but the item is “covered by eBay Buyer Protection,” the listing will assure.

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