Krakow day 3 – Oskar Schindler’s factory

Located at 4 Lipowa St in Krakow 

The permanent exhibition titles Krakow under Nazi occupation 1939-1945 is now housed within the factory offering the visitor a time travel through the city’s history. It presents the history of Krakow’s inhabitants, both Polish and Jewish, and of the prisoners of the concentration camp that Oskar Schindler managed to save by having work at his factory.   

Factory front – the factory is now part of the Holocaust memorial  

Fragments of the exhibition – pictures showing Krakow under Nazi occupation

Stamping machine – used for official documentations

Oskar Schindler’s office – containing sample pots left over from when the factory was in production

Memorial to the loss of Polish and Jewish life –

 

Outside the factory – remains of the work done at the factory –