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Oskar Schindler's factory to go on market

Town offering it for symbolic sum to investor to clean it up and create jobs

Published Thu, Feb 20, 2014 · 10:00 PM

    [PRAGUE] Oskar Schindler's factory is headed for the market, and Blahoslav Kaspar knows it will be a tough sell.

    The mayor of Brnenec, a village of 1,300 in the eastern Czech Republic, insists the crumbling complex would be the perfect spot for any kind of light industry. He also suggests it could be a Holocaust museum.

    The factory once belonged to Mr Schindler, a Czech-German industrialist, spy and a member of the Nazi party who sheltered about 1,200 Jews there in the final months of the Second World War. Their story was featured in Steven Spielberg's Academy award-winning 1993 film Schindler's List.

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