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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.As of 2019[update], the factory site remains abandoned; there are plans to convert it into a museum.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Table of ContentsCommand and control[edit]History[edit]Timeline[edit]References[edit]External links[edit]Command and control[edit]  The Br\u00fcnnlitz labor camp was administratively a sub-camp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp system. The camp was assigned an SS garrison consisting of about one hundred SS guards and female staff. The commander of the camp was SS-Obersturmf\u00fchrer Josef Leipold. From the very beginning, Schindler told the SS his factory would not operate as a typical camp, forbade guards to punish or harass the camp inmates, and barred any SS member from entering the operational part of the factory.[1]History[edit]Prior to the fall of 1944, Oskar Schindler had owned an enamelware factory in Krak\u00f3w and employed over 1,000 Jewish prisoners. When he learned that the nearby Krak\u00f3w-P\u0142asz\u00f3w concentration camp was to be shut down and all its inmates (including his workers) sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau for extermination, he decided to set up the Br\u00fcnnlitz labor camp. A large segment of Schindler’s labor force consisted of unskilled workers or people who were too sick or weak to work, whom he had been protecting under the guise of essential labor, and he knew they would be killed soon after reaching Auschwitz. Using much of the money he had earned from his enamelware business, Schindler bribed SS and Nazi officials in order to gain permission to move his labor force to the Sudetengau and set up a munitions factory there. In addition, he had to pay the costs of converting a disused textile mill to munitions production, equipping it as a camp, and shipping his supplies and machinery there.The “concentration camp” at Br\u00fcnnlitz was simply a factory complex, with an attached barracks for the workers and no real external security to speak of. A token front gate and a perimeter fence were the only measures put in place to prevent escapes; however, every Jew at the complex was grateful to be there and hoped to survive the war under Schindler’s protection. The SS guards at the camp were left with little to do, and Schindler supplied them with good food and alcohol as an incentive to leave his workers alone.Between November 1944 and January 1945, the Br\u00fcnnlitz labor camp was visited several times by former P\u0142asz\u00f3w commandant Amon G\u00f6th, who considered himself a friend to Schindler. The inmates at Br\u00fcnnlitz, many of whom had suffered harshly under G\u00f6th, remarked that he was a physically changed man and looked feeble and pathetic compared to his early tenure when he was a figure who commanded absolute fear and terror.[2]Schindler went bankrupt keeping his factory running, having spent his remaining money on food and supplies, bribes to the SS, and purchases of artillery shells from other factories that he passed off as having been made at Br\u00fcnnlitz. The factory produced no usable armaments of its own, a strategy deliberately chosen by Schindler in the hope of hastening the war’s end by contributing nothing to German military efforts. The Red Army liberated Br\u00fcnnlitz on May 9, 1945. A few days prior, the SS guards had deserted and Schindler had escaped to American lines with the help of his Jewish workers, carrying a letter written by them that attested to his rescue activities.[2]As of October 2016, Jaroslav Novak\u00a0[cs] and the Endowment Fund for the Memorial of the Shoah and Oskar Schindler has purchased the site where the camp was located and plans to convert it into a museum.[3]Timeline[edit]  The ruins of the factory in 2004.1840s: The L\u00f6w-Beer Jewish family moved into the area. They set up the factory, making high-quality textiles.1938: The Germans occupied Czechoslovakia. The L\u00f6w-Beer family fled to Britain. Germans took over the factory.1944: Oskar Schindler brought his Jews to Brn\u011bnec and started to work the factory.May 1945: Russians liberated Brn\u011bnec. 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 Franti\u0161ek 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. Franti\u0161ek Olbert approached Daniel L\u00f6w-Beer.Daniel L\u00f6w-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.[4]References[edit]^ Snyder, T. “Encyclopedia of the Third Reich”, Wordsworth Editions Ltd (1998)^ a b Crowe, David, Oskar Schindler: The Untold Account of His Life, Wartime Activities, and the True Story Behind the List, Westview Press (2004)^ Tait, Robert (11 October 2016). “Fate of former Schindler’s list factory is met with Czech ambivalence”. the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-08-29.^ Day, Matthew (24 February 2019). “British descendant of Schindler factory owner to turn derelict building into museum”. 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