Group Hopes To Save Deteriorating ‘Schindler’s List Factory’
- 8 years ago
A Czech group called the Endowment Fund for the Memorial of the Shoah and Oskar Schindler has been working to turn the old textile factory where Oskar Schindler once hid 1,200 Jews from the Nazis during the Holocaust into a museum despite some local opposition.
A crumbling old factory in the Czech town of Brněnec was the unlikely setting for a famous historic event which is why there is an effort underway to turn it into a museum.
The Daily Mail reports that the former textile building was the place where Oskar Schindler, portrayed in the acclaimed film Schindler’s List, hid 1,200 Jews, saving their lives during the Holocaust.
The unoccupied structure is currently owned by the Endowment Fund for the Memorial of the Shoah and Oskar Schindler.
Jaroslav Novak, a member of the fund, noted, “Our main goal is to get the building, actually the whole area, back to its original appearance. That includes watchtowers, the hospital and the concentration camp.”
Despite facing several challenges including a fundraising goal of around $5.5 million and Schindler’s local reputation as a womanizer and gambler, Novak vows to continue his effort to make the museum a reality.
He remarked, “This is the only Nazi concentration camp in the Czech Republic that is still standing in its original building. You cannot allow it and the whole history of Schindler to disappear.”
A crumbling old factory in the Czech town of Brněnec was the unlikely setting for a famous historic event which is why there is an effort underway to turn it into a museum.
The Daily Mail reports that the former textile building was the place where Oskar Schindler, portrayed in the acclaimed film Schindler’s List, hid 1,200 Jews, saving their lives during the Holocaust.
The unoccupied structure is currently owned by the Endowment Fund for the Memorial of the Shoah and Oskar Schindler.
Jaroslav Novak, a member of the fund, noted, “Our main goal is to get the building, actually the whole area, back to its original appearance. That includes watchtowers, the hospital and the concentration camp.”
Despite facing several challenges including a fundraising goal of around $5.5 million and Schindler’s local reputation as a womanizer and gambler, Novak vows to continue his effort to make the museum a reality.
He remarked, “This is the only Nazi concentration camp in the Czech Republic that is still standing in its original building. You cannot allow it and the whole history of Schindler to disappear.”