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Descendent of the original owners of the factory, Daniel Low-Beer, 49, hopes to transform the building into a museum and cultural centre

New hopes to transform an abandoned factory building that once sheltered 1,200 Jews before their escape from Nazi rule during the Second World War into a museum are in motion.

The Czech factory in Brněnec, made famous by Steven Spielberg's 1993 Hollywood blockbuster Schindler's List, was once the building that hundreds of Jews worked in before managing to escape almost certain death in the Holocaust.

The old factory is now set to be restored from its derelict state into a museum and cultural centre in honour of its owner and the man who helped saved the lives of hundreds of Jews through his world famous list - Oskar Schindler. 

The factory, which will be called Schindler's Ark, will allow visitors to see where those escaping the final stages of the Holocaust once lived and tell the history of the region and its people.

Descendent of the original owners of the enamel and tinware factory, Daniel Low-Beer, 49, said the restoration would allow others to understand the building's famous past.   

Alongside his work for the World Health Organisation, Mr Low-Beer also runs the Ark Foundation.

The old derelict building was were 1,200 Jews were sheltered before they escape from Nazi rule

He told The Sunday Telegraph: 'It is very moving to be here and be a part of the foundation that can tell this history.

'It's an opportunity to make a little piece of history here both in keeping an important memory alive and also working with the local population to improve their lives. '

The now derelict factory was the location that more than 100 Jewish workers were transported to after Schindler, a member of the Nazi Party, learned that his enamelware factory in Poland was to be closed down in 1939.

Schindler, who had a change of heart after realising the extent of the Nazi brutality, managed to convince officials to allow him to acquire a factory in the village of Brněnec and it was here that he moved his Jewish workforce. 

Oskar Schindler, who was a member of the Nazi Party, acquired the factory in 1939 before moving his Jewish workforce to the region

As the Nazi's took over the Czech region, Mr Low-Beer's family, who were Jewish, had to abandon the region and their factory. 

The factory was then taken over by the Nazi's before it was acquired by Schindler himself. 

Mr Low Beers added: 'The factory was stolen by the Nazi's and then stolen by Schindler, but he used it for good and saved 1,200 Jews.'

For years the historic factory has remained abandoned but new plans will now see the building pay homage to the man who saved the lives of more than 1,000 Jews through his famous list.

The new development will also retain some of the original features that existed while the Jews took shelter there during the Second World War.

Oskar Schindler: The Nazi who saved the lives of 1,200 Jews

Oskar Schindler (pictured) was an ethnic German born in what is now the Czech Republic in 1908

Oskar Schindler was an ethnic German born in what is now the Czech Republic in 1908.

A businessman, he saw the opportunities in profiting from the German invasion of Poland and bought an enamelware factory in Krakow.

He was a member of the Nazi party and mingled with the SS elite in the city. 

He employed a large number of Jewish workers in his factory, mainly due to the lower costs of employing Jews after the German invasion.

After witnessing a raid during the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto, Oskar Schindler was shocked to find many of his employees murdered and created his legendary list of 'Schindlerjuden' (Schindler's Jews) to be spared from deportation to work in his factory.

It was made possible thanks to his German-speaking Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern and Schindler's close relationships with high-ranking SS officers in Krakow.

As the Holocaust continued Schindler used his lists to protect the over 1,200 workers and their families on his list.

He would go out of his way to convince SS inspectors that women, children and even the disabled were essential workers in his factory to spare them from being sent to the camps.

Having spent his fortune on bribes and black-market wares to for his workers, a destitute Schindler and his wife fled to Austria after the war.

He died, penniless, in Germany in 1974 at the age of 66, and was buried in Jerusalem.

His grave carries the Hebrew inscription 'Righteous among the Nations'.

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Descendent of the original owners of the factory, Daniel Low-Beer, 49, hopes to transform the building into a museum and cultural centre

New hopes to transform an abandoned factory building that once sheltered 1,200 Jews before their escape from Nazi rule during the Second World War into a...

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