The widow of Oskar Schindler, the German businessman who saved more than a thousand Jews from Nazi persecution, has decided to move from Argentina to live the final years of her life in Germany.

Emilie Schindler, who is ninety-four, said that was her greatest and last wish was to die in Germany.

Bernhard Seidenath, a spokesman for the government of the German state of Bavaria, said his government had contacted a suitable retirement home and wanted to discuss the proposal with her.

Schindler's story was filmed by Hollywood and became a world-wide hit under the title 'Schindler's List'. The real-life Schindler and his wife emigrated to Argentina in 1949, but he left her in 1958 and returned to Germany, where he died in 1974.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service