New York (CNN) -- Potential bidders at the auction website eBay can zoom in on a neatly-typed list of hundreds of factory workers spared almost certain death at Nazi concentration camps. One of Oskar Schindler's original lists was posted Thursday night with a starting bid request of $3 million. The German businessman became a Nazi and operated enamel factories in Poland, producing pots and pans using forced Jewish laborers during World War II. In order to save 1,200 prisoners, Schindler opened an armaments factory in Brunnlitz, present-day Czech Republic, to convince his superiors Jews were vital to the work production.
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Oskar Schindler helped save Jews by employing them
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Lists were made of their factory worker's names
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One is being auctioned, with a $3 million starting bid
Silber says because of the1,200 people @placeholder helped save, three generations and thousands of more people were able to survive and live on.