Opening of the Museum of Survivors in Brněnec

Thanks to Spielberg's film Schindler's List, the whole world knows the story of the rescue of 1,200 Jewish prisoners at the end of the Second World War. The whole world knows who Oskar Schindler was and why he became a symbol of good in a time of evil. But that same world has no idea where this heartbreaking story actually took place. That could change now.

Following many intense preparations, the first part of the exhibition was inaugurated on 10 May. The Czech public probably already knows that this was the textile factory of the Jewish Löw-Beer family, confiscated after the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis, and that the site is Brněnec near Svitavy. And it was here that the new museum was opened.

It is a paradox that the family of the original owners had to purchase their original property to to make the Arks project in this place even possible.

Now it's time to fill the former spinning mill up with new life, exhibitions, lectures, film screenings, school outings. All of that is ahead now, and we are happy that the Terezín Initiative Institute is one of the main partner on this project from the very beginning.

Tomáš Kraus, panel discussion

Panel about František Kraus

AFYN girls in a video spot at the museum

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