New museum opens at Czech industrial site where Schindler saved 1,200 Jews
The Museum of Survivors hosted its first visitors this weekend at the site of an old industrial plant in the Czech town of Brněnec 100 miles east of Prague, in an event timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.
Oskar Schindler, who saved many Jewish lives during the Nazi Holocaust in Germany, talks to Israeli children in Tel-Aviv in 1963. Credit: Bettmann via Getty Images.
The former factory is where German businessman Oskar Schindler saved 1,200 Jews during the World War II. The compound was stolen by the Nazis from its Jewish owners in 1938 and turned into a labor camp.
The museum is not currently open on a daily basis but focuses on educational activities for students.
Schindler’s story was told in Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning 1993 movie, “Schindler’s List.”
Eighty years ago this month, Schindler received a golden ring from the grateful Jewish survivors, made with gold taken from their teeth and inscribed with the Hebrew words from Talmud: “Whoever saves one life saves the world entire.”
Schindler, who was posthumously recognised as a Righteous Among the Nations by the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Museum, is buried in Jerusalem.
In Sydney, Jake Selinger told J-Wire: “It is good to see the opening of this museum in addition to the museum opened at the Emalia Factory in Krakow, Poland where the story began. Schindler’s deed of saving 1200 lives deserves to be recognised. He saved my parents and other relatives for which I am eternally grateful.”
Anita Moss Korn commented: “My sister and I are daughters of Mundek and Leosia Korn, who Oskar Schindler saved in this very factory during the Holocaust. It is so important to have real-life monuments to the truth of what transpired.
JNS with J-Wire
