Brünnlitz labor camp
The Brünnlitz labor camp (Arbeitslager Brünnlitz) was a forced labor camp of Nazi Germany which was established in 1944 just outside the town of Brněnec (Brünnlitz in German), Sudetengau (part of occupied Czechoslovakia). 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.
| Brünnlitz | |
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| Nazi concentration camp | |
The remains of the main factory at Brünnlitz in 2004 | |
| Other names | Arbeitslager Brünnlitz |
| Known for | Schindler's List |
| Location | Brněnec, Sudetengau |
| Operated by | Nazi Germany and the Schutzstaffel |
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| Original use | Armaments factory |
| Operational | October 1944 – May 1945 |
| Inmates | Jews (Schindlerjuden) |
| Number of inmates | 1,200 |
| Killed | none |
| Liberated by | Red Army, 9 May 1945 |
| Notable inmates | Abraham Bankier, Joseph Bau, Moshe Bejski, Laura Hillman, Ryszard Horowitz, Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig, Leon Leyson, Mietek Pemper, Poldek Pfefferberg, Leo Rosner, Itzhak Stern |
As of 2019, the factory site remains abandoned; there are plans to convert it into a museum.
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