KRAKOW, Poland, June 29 (UPI) -- The Polish cookware factory where Oskar Schindler employed, and saved the lives of more than 1,000 Jews, will be turned into a modern art museum.
City officials in Krakow approved the transformation of the factory that made pots and pans during World War II into a museum, and began the process of seeking $1.4 million funding from Europe, the BBC said Wednesday.
Schindler and his wife persuaded a Nazi concentration camp commander he needed the Jews as laborers to help the war effort, and thereby saved them from extermination.
The museum will house modern works of art and a permanent exhibition dedicated to the Schindlers.
Schindler died in 1974 at the age of 66, and little was known of his efforts until the 1993 Steven Spielberg film, "Schindler's List," which won several Oscars, including best picture.
