![Construction of Oskar Schindler's armaments factory in Bruennlitz. [LCID: 03382]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/a591e373-1a06-420a-9cea-2dfdfd9007df.jpg)
Jewish forced laborers constructed Oskar Schindler's armaments factory at Brünnlitz, a subcamp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp. In fall 1944, Schindler relocated his factory from German-occupied Kraków to a village near his hometown in the Sudetenland (part of Czechoslovakia annexed to Nazi Germany). At Brünnlitz, Schindler devoted himself to saving its approximately 1,000 Jewish prisoners. This was a difficult and risky endeavor that required him to spend the fortune he had made in Kraków. Czechoslovakia, October 1944.
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