Schindler’s Factory

The museum is housed in what used to be the administrative building of the former Oskar Schindler factory, Emalia. The wartime history of the factory, its owner Oskar Schindler, and the Jewish prisoners of the Płaszów camp became known primarily thanks to Steven Spielberg’s film Schindler’s List. It is the intention of the museum to show the history of the factory in ul. Lipowa in a broader historical context, and provide visitors with an opportunity to learn more about the history of Kraków under the occupation.

Its central figure is the city and its inhabitants, Polish and Jewish communities confronted with the German occupiers. The exhibition shows all the problems of a time which had unusual significance for the later history of not only Kraków but Poland and the whole of Europe, as well as the figure of Oskar Schindler and the fates of the Jews saved by him.

Thanks to a presentation of Oskar Schindler, the man – director of the factory in which the museum is currently housed and also one of the many wartime heroes – visitors will be able to get to know what this time was really like, to become aware of the fear, uncertainty, pain and terror accompanying not only the Jews, but all the inhabitants of Kraków.

The strikingly vivid arrangement of the exhibition, which relies on the latest technological developments, is meant to aid it in reaching young viewers who only know the history of the Second World War from textbooks.

Design of the exhibition: Monika Bednarek, Edyta Gawron, Grzegorz Jeżowski, Katarzyna Zimmerer and Barbara Zbroja

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