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 Schindler exhibit opens in East Bohemia
A permanent exhibition called Looking for the Star of David, Oskar Schindler–Righteous Among the Nations opened last week on the occasion of the birth centenary of the Svitavy, East Bohemia, native. During World War II, Schindler, a member of the Nazi Party, employed more than 1,000 Jews in his factories in Poland and in the Svitavy vicinity.
Thanks to this, they escaped death in concentration camps. Schindler’s story was also told in the 1993 Steven Spielberg film “Schindler’s List.” The Svitavy exhibition covers the history of Jewish settlement at the Czech-Moravian border, and explores Schindler’s story against the background of the Holocaust. Relics of Jewish heritage in the Pardubice region are also on display. The exhibition was prepared in cooperation with experts from the Jewish Museum in Prague, the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, Jagellon University in Kraków, Poland, and a number of Schindler’s former Jewish employees.
This is the town’s third effort to acknowledge Schindler. “In 1994, a monument was built to him in Jan Palach park, and about 10 years ago we organized a meeting of eye witnesses and an expert symposium,” said Blanka Čuhelová, director of Městské muzeum a galerie Svitavy (Svitavy City Museum) in which the exhibition is housed.
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