factory founded in 1937 as a production site for enamel and tin products. It was leased and then taken over by the German entrepreneur Oskar Schindler in 1939 as the German Enamelware Factory - Deutsche Emailwarenfabrik (DEF), which was run by Schindler until 1945. Schindler employed the Jews threatened with extermination there, who were later included in the so-called Schindler list and saved from extermination