The sheet of paper, a photocopy, is folded and faded. The original meant the difference between life and death for those fortunate to have their names on it more than 50 years ago. Schindler`s List.

Anna Duklauer Perl was one of them. One column of numbers and names, No. 76235, Anna Duklauer, "Metallarbeiterin" or metalworker it says in German next to her name.

Long before Steven Spielberg ever heard of him and decided to make his movie, Oscar Schindler`s name was kept nearly as close to Anna Duklauer Perl`s heart as the names of her own children and grandchildren. For almost five decades, she never said much about the horrors of Holocaust or the salvation of becoming one of Schindler`s Jews. Neither to her family nor her friends. 

She kept it inside. She didn't want her family to go through it, too. She later said:"I just told them that, without a man named Oscar Schindler, I wouldn't be here." But she didn't tell them the whole story until Spielberg`s movie was made. 

And overnight everyone was interested in the subject - people were eager to hear from someone who had actually been there. She found herself talking about and sharing a part of her life that was locked inside her for so long. Anna Duklauer Perl, a shy, petite woman who quietly raised three children and worked as a seamstress, found that everyone wanted to hear her story. 

She personified the common survivor, not the rich or famous. She was a righteous woman, leading a life of dignity and honesty, dedication to the family, and the community. A survivor who handsomely repayed the precious gift of life which she received.

She spoke to thousands of school children in Virginia about her own sad experiences as a teenager, she was Hillary Clinton's guest at the White House, she was interviewed by newspapers and magazines, she was on TV, she took part in the Holocaust Memorial day program in New Orleans, she was quoted in Newsweek just as she was the guest speaker at special screenings of "Schindler`s List".

Anna was barely 20 years old in Nazi-occupied Poland when she became one of 1,200 Jews saved by German industrialist Oscar Schindler. To more than 1200 Jewish people Schindler and his factories were all that stood between them and death at the hands of the Nazis. But Schindler remained true to his "Schindlerjuden", the workers he referred to as "my children". He kept the SS out and everyone alive.