Sydney - The list of 801 Jews threatened by Nazi persecution that was drawn up by German industrialist Oskar Schindler in 1945 has resurfaced in Australia and will go on show at a Sydney library, news reports said Monday.

It's actually a carbon-copy, typed at the same time as the carbon copy that is among the prized exhibits at the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, but it's priceless all the same because few carbon copies survived and the original has never been found.

The 13 yellowing sheets, typed in German, were rediscovered by historian Olwen Pryke when she was going through six boxes of papers brought from a manuscript dealer by the Library of New South Wales in 1996.

Australian author Thomas Keneally, author of the Booker Prize-winning Schindler's Ark, sold the papers. It was his 1982 novel that Hollywood director Steven Spielberg turned into the Oscar-winning 1993 film Schindler's List.

Keneally told The Sydney Morning Herald that he first saw the list in 1980 when, through a chance meeting in Los Angeles, he was persuaded to turn the life of Schindler, a card-carrying Nazi, into a novel.

He was handed the list by Leopold Pffeferberg, whose name was on the list along with that of his wife, Ludmila.

"It's the only case in my lifetime that someone has said 'I've got a great story for you' where I've ended up doing anything about it," Keneally told the paper.

Pryke described the 13 pages as "an incredibly moving piece of history."

She said neither the library nor the manuscript seller realized the list was in the collection at the time of the 1996 transaction.

Schindler, who died in obscurity in 1974, used his money and his charm to persuade members of Hitler's elite troops to staff his factory with Jews rather than send them off to concentration camps. (dpa)