Fabryka Emalia Oskara Schindlera
The Fabryka Emalia Oskara Schindlera (short: Fabryka Schindlera ) is a state museum in a former building of Oskar Schindler's enamel goods factory in Krakow . The museum depicts the time of the German occupation of Krakow from 1939 to 1945, with a special focus on the fate of the Jews in the Krakow ghetto and in the Plaszow forced labor camp compared to the workers in Schindler's factory. References to the film Schindler's List , which was partly shot in the building, are also made. The museum opened in 2010 and is part of the Krakow City History Museum ; The Kraków Museum of Contemporary Art can be found in other buildings of the factory .
Building and exhibition
The museum is located at 4 Lipowa Street (Linden Street) in an industrial area of Kraków's Podgórze district . The three-story museum building housed the administration of Schindler's enamel ware factory. The camp set up by Schindler on the factory site for the Jews he employed has not been preserved. After the end of World War II , the factory was nationalized and produced telecommunications equipment . After the end of socialism in Poland , a privatized successor company went bankrupt . In 2005 the city of Kraków acquired the site with the administration building.
The museum was designed and established from 2007 to 2010, the cost of which was 3.7 million euros . The official opening took place on June 11, 2010. The permanent exhibition is entitled “Krakow under German occupation 1939–1945”, the people and circumstances shown in Schindler's list only take up part of the exhibition.
Web links
- Official website of the museum (English / Polish)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Patti McCracken: Exhibit at Schindler factory site recalls Nazi-era Krakow . In: JTA of June 9, 2010.
- ↑ Ruth Ellen Gruber: New Museum Tells Krakow's Stories of World War II . In: New York Times, July 15, 2010.
Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 51 ″ N , 19 ° 57 ′ 42.4 ″ E