A handwritten signed letter from Oskar Schindler to his accountant Itzhak Stern was sold in auction for £7,500 today.

German industrialist Mr Schindler saved more than 1,000 Jews during the Second World War by employing them in his enamelware factory in Krakow, Poland.

Itzhak Stern was Mr Schindler’s accountant who is credited with typing the list of names of Jewish people who were saved by Mr Schindler.

The letter, written in German on Hotel Garni Preussischer Hof notepaper was undated but thought to be from around 1950.

In the letter Mr Schindler refers to Poldek Pfefferberg, saying that Mr Pfefferberg had produced a television programme which included things which Mr Schindler had witnessed during the war, and that there may be an opportunity for a film.

Mr Pfefferberg was a Polish-American Holocaust survivor who worked in Mr Schindler’s factory. He settled in Los Angeles after the war and was instrumental in the process of producing Schindler’s List, the Hollywood film made about Oskar Schindler by director Steven Spielberg.

The letter was auctioned by Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh. The details of the seller and buyer have not been disclosed.