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Oskar Schindler's Enamel Factory (Polish: Fabryka Emalia Oskara Schindlera) is a former metal item factory in Kraków.It now hosts two museums: the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, on the former workshops, and a branch of the Historical Museum of the City of Kraków, situated at ul.
Oskar Schindler (German: [ˈɔskaʁ ˈʃɪndlɐ] ⓘ; 28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was a German industrialist, humanitarian, and member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
In 1944, Oskar Schindler relocated his German Enamelware Factory and the associated prison camp of 1,200 Jewish forced labourers from Kraków to a munitions factory acquired by him in Brněnec. The Jewish workforce thus escaped transport to the extermination camps and was liberated along with the rest of the municipality on 10 May 1945 by the ...
It operated solely as a site for an armaments factory run by the German industrialist Oskar Schindler, which was in actuality a front for a safe haven for Schindlerjuden. Administratively, it was a sub-camp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp system. As of 2023, the factory site remains abandoned; there are plans to convert it into a museum.
Armaments factory run by Oskar Schindler (1,200) [5] Buchwald-Hohenwiese: Bukowiec, Jelenia Góra County: maintenance Bunzlau I & II: Boleslawiec: I: Holzindustrie Hubert Land (1,200); II: Concordia Spinerei und Weberei Company Christianstadt: Krzystkowice , Nowogród: Dynamit AG Nobel Dörnhau: Kolce: Project Riese; Organisation Todt ...
It also includes the site of the Nazi Kraków Ghetto and a factory of Oskar Schindler who saved nearly 1,200 Jews from the camps, as well as the old villages (now suburbs) of Płaszów, Rybitwy and Przewóz. Jews from Krakow and the nearby villages were ordered to move into the created ghetto, an area of about 20 hectares, until March 20, 1941.
It includes permanent exhibition "From the History of Washing Technology" and an exhibition about the life of local native Oskar Schindler. [13] The multifunctional cultural centre Fabrika was created by reconstruction of a former textile factory from 1926. It is a social centre with a theatre hall and a library. [14]
Bankier was born in Kraków, then a part of Austria-Hungary, on May 5, 1895, to an observant Jewish family.. Prior to World War II, Bankier was one of the owners of the Rekord Ltd. [a] factory on Lipowa street in Kraków, Poland, that Oskar Schindler took over during the Nazi occupation of Poland. [1]