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The site of Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory is now one of Kraków’s must-see museums, an immersive exhibition about life under Nazi occupation. Here is our complete walk-through, with practical information for visitors.
- Who Was Oskar Schindler?
- What Is Schindler’s Factory?
- What Did Schindler’s Factory Make?
- What Was Schindler’s Factory called?
- What Happened to Schindler's Factory?
Oskar Schindler (1908-1974) was a German enterpreneur and a member of the Nazi party, NSDAP. He is credited with saving approximately 1200 Jewsby employing them in his factories (so that they could avoid horrible living conditions and eventually death in the Nazi labor camps) – one of them located in Krakow, in the area of today’s Zabłocie district...
Schindler’s Factory today houses two museums (MOCAK and the Schindler’s Factory Museum), but in the past it was a factory owned by Oskar Schindler that was a place of work for many Jews during the Nazi occupation.
Originally various enamelware objects were produced in the Schindler's factory; later on Schindler decided to also produce mess kits and ammunition shells for the Germans as he wanted to make sure that the factory would be regarded as an essential part of the war effort.
The Polish name is Fabryka Emalia Oskara Schindlera, but the original, German name was Oskar Schindler's Deutsche Emailwarenfabrik (DEF).
For over 50 years after the war (1948-2002) the buildings were utilised by a company producing telecommunications equipment, called Krakowskie Zakłady Elektroniczne Unitra-Telpod (later: Telpod S.A.). Nowadays, as mentioned above, they house two museums: MOCAK, which is a museum of contemporary art, and Schindler's Factory Museum that is dedicated ...
- Plac Szczepański 8, Kraków, 31001, Małopolska
Friday - Sunday 9:00 - 20:00. first Tuesday of the month closed. Last entrance - 1,5 hour before closing. Free entrance. Monday (permanent exhibition) - tickets are limited. Localisation. ul. Lipowa 4, 30-702 Kraków. The branch can be visited as part of Memory Trail. Exhibitions in the branch.
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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.
Today, the administrative building of the former Emalia Factory that manufactured enamelware houses a branch of the Museum of Krakow, eagerly visited by tourists from various countries who desire to see the place where more than 1000 people were rescued thanks to Oskar Schindler. The permanent exhibition here portrays the German entrepreneur ...
Today Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory houses the Schindler’s Factory Museum, and the Krakow under Nazi Occupation 1939-1945 exhibition. A vast collection of objects, photographs, videos and documents detail the lives of Krakow’s wartime inhabitants, the fate of the Polish Jews, and the underground resistance growing during the war.
Today, the administrative building of the former Emalia Factory that manufactured enamelware houses a branch of the Museum of Krakow, eagerly visited by tourists from various countries who desire to see the place where more than 1000 people were rescued thanks to Oskar Schindler. The permanent exhibition here portrays the German entrepreneur ...
