page_title: Brünnlitz labor camp
section_title: Timeline
hierarchical_section_title: Brünnlitz labor camp / History / Timeline
caption_attribution_description: Čeština: Továrna Oskara Schindlera v Brněnci, stav v létě 2004 English: Oskar Schindler's factory at Brněnec (15 km south of Svitavy), Czech Republic as seen in summer 2004
context_page_description: The Brünnlitz labor camp was a forced labor camp of Nazi Germany which was established in 1944 just outside the town of Brněnec, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, solely as a site for an armaments factory run by 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.
  As of 2019, the factory site sits abandoned, however there are plans to turn it into a museum.
context_section_description: 1840s: The Low-Beer Jewish family moved into the area. They set up the factory, making high-quality textiles.
  1938: The Germans occupied Czechoslovakia. The Low-Beer family fled to Britain. Germans took over the factory.
  1944: Oskar Schindler brought his Jews to Brněnec and started to work the factory.
  May 1945: Russians liberated Brněnec. Afterwards, the Communist government of Czechoslovakia nationalized the factory.
  1989: Fall of Communism. The factory went into private hands. In its last years the factory made car seat covers and airline blankets. Its last general manager was František Olbert.
  2010: The factory closed and was left abandoned. Afterwards, thieves stripped out much of its wood and metal.
  2017: The local government of Brno invited the Low-Beers to come back to the area. František Olbert approached Daniel Low-Beer.
  Daniel Low-Beer works for the World Health Organization in Geneva and runs the Ark Foundation, which owns the factory. There is a plan to turn the derelict factory into a museum called Schindler's Ark.
caption: The ruins of the factory in 2004.
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