シンドラーの工場

Agence France-Presse “Schindler's List factory to be turned into Holocaust memorial” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/09/schindlers-list-factory-turned-into-holocaust-memorial-czech


チェコ共和国のBrněnec*1にある古い工場の建物が「ホロコースト記念館」としてリニューアルされるという。この工場は、かつてオスカー・シンドラー*2が所有し、操業していた。


Parts of the complex in Brněnec (formerly Brünnlitz), close to Schindler’s birthplace in Svitavy (Zwittau), were given the status of cultural monument earlier this month, according to the Czech culture ministry.

Built in the 19th century, the laboratory, mill, chemical depot, front door and a square used for roll call “have close historical links... to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp in Brněnec,” the ministry’s spokeswoman, Simona Cigankova, said.

During the second world war, Schindler (1908-1974), saved the lives of 1,200 Jews by employing them in his enamelware and munitions factories in Nazi-occupied Poland and Czechoslovakia.


A Czech foundation plans to restore the dilapidated factory in Brněnec and create a Holocaust memorial and an exhibition depicting Schindler’s life there, with an opening scheduled for 2019.

“Our aim is to restore the building to its original condition, including the watchtower,” Jaroslav Novak, head of the Shoah and Oskar Schindler Foundation told journalists recently.

See also


Robert Tait “Fate of former Schindler's list factory is met with Czech ambivalence” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/11/former-schindlers-list-factory-plans-czech-museum-nazi-industralist
Chloe Leonida “‘Schindler’s List’ Factory to Host Holocaust Memorial and Exhibition” https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/schindler-factory-host-holocaust-memorial-740864