6 real historical locations · Czech Republic, Poland
Steven Spielberg's masterpiece — shot in black and white in Krakow — tells the true story of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who used his factory to save over 1,100 Jewish workers from the death camps. The most important Holocaust film ever made.
CinemaMapped has mapped 6 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Czech Republic, Poland.
Oskar Schindler arrives in Kraków. The Jewish ghetto is established and liquidated over the course of the film.
The Kraków Ghetto confined 15,000 Jews to a small district of Podgórze from March 1941. It was liquidated in two waves in 1942 and 1943 — residents were shot in the streets or sent to Płaszów and Auschwitz.
View location →Camp Płaszów — Amon Göth's brutal regime. Schindler witnesses the horrors and begins protecting his workers.
Commandant Amon Göth ran Płaszów with sadistic violence from 1943-1945. At its peak the camp held 25,000 prisoners. Göth was convicted of war crimes and hanged in 1946 near the camp he commanded.
View location →Schindler's factory in Brünnlitz — where the 1,200 Schindlerjuden are saved.
Schindler spent his entire personal fortune bribing officials and buying food and supplies to keep his workers alive. The factory deliberately produced defective ammunition to avoid contributing to the war. It operate...
View location →SS commandant Amon Goth threatens to send Schindler's Jewish workers to Auschwitz. The camp functions as the constant off-screen threat hanging over every sc...
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp, where approximately 1.1 million people were murdered between 1940 and 1945. Located 70km from Krakow, it is today a UNESCO World Heritage S...
View location →Schindler's Deutsche Emailwarenfabrik on Lipowa Street -- the enamelware factory where he employed 1,750 Jewish workers, knowingly protecting them from the c...
Oscar Schindler's factory at ul. Lipowa 4 in Krakow's Zablocie district is now the Schindler Museum, one of Poland's most visited historical sites. The original production hall and offices are preserved as they appear...
View location →Commandant Goth shoots prisoners from the balcony of his white villa overlooking the Plaszow camp -- one of the most chilling images in the film, based direc...
Amon Goth was commandant of the Plaszow forced labour camp from 1943 to 1944. He was known to shoot prisoners from his villa balcony. After the war, Goth was tried by a Polish court and executed in 1946 near the forme...
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