In Brněnci, a Holocaust museum will open, and the author of Schindler's List will be coming

Brněnec - Today, a museum dedicated to Holocaust survivors will open for the first time in Brněnec, Svitavy region. Visitors can look forward to a two-day program and will have the opportunity to meet Thomas Keneally, the author of the famous book Schindler's List. During World War II, the museum was an ammunition factory, and Brněnec became a subsidiary camp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp. The factory was run by businessman Oskar Schindler.

At noon, a guided tour of the museum will begin, featuring Thomas Keneally, the author of Schindler's List, on which Steven Spielberg based his 1993 film of the same name. Visitors will also be greeted by Oliwia Dabrowska, who played the little girl in the red coat in the film. The film, otherwise, is entirely in black and white. Among the guests will be Erika Rosenberg, who wrote the biography of Emilie Schindler.

Visitors can look forward to discussions with the guests or watch scenes from Schindler's List, which will be commented on by the author Keneally. The museum will present an exhibition called Starting at Zero, which was on display last year at the Tugendhat villa in Brno. It showcases works by designers from the Bauhaus art school. The second exhibition will depict life in the concentration camp and focus on the people who survived the Holocaust. This will be followed by classical music concerts. On Sunday, visitors can enjoy film screenings or theater.

The factory in Brněnec produced paper, later it was a spinning mill, and during the war, it manufactured ammunition. German businessman Oskar Schindler moved about 1,200 workers from his enamelware factory in Kraków to the factory, thus saving their lives. Schindler was a member of the Nazi party and the German military intelligence.