The Brünnlitz labor camp was a forced labor camp of Nazi Germany which was established in 1944 just outside the town of Brněnec, Sudetengau. It operated solely as a site for an armaments factory run by the German industrialist Oskar Schindler, which was in actuality a front for a safe haven for Schindlerjuden. Administratively, it was a sub-camp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp system.
The remains of the main factory at Brünnlitz in 2004
SS-Ostuf Josef Leipold
The ruins of the factory in 2004.
Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist, humanitarian, and member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. He is the subject of the 1982 novel Schindler's Ark and its 1993 film adaptation, Schindler's List, which reflected his life as an opportunist initially motivated by profit who came to show extraordinary initiative, tenacity, courage, and dedication in saving his Jewish employees' lives.
Schindler sometime after 1945
Schindler's factory in Kraków, 2011
Hujowa Górka ("Prick Hill"), the execution place in Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp (2007)
Schindler's factory at the former site of Brünnlitz labor camp in 2004