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Enamel kettle produced at the factory of Oskar Schindler - Enamel kettle produced by the “German Enamelware Factory”, owned by Righteous Among the Nations Oskar Schindler. Stamped on base: DEF (Die Deutsche Emailwarenfabrik). Size 14. Poland, early 1940s. At the outbreak of World War II and the German occupation of Poland in September 1939, Oskar Schindler moved to Kraków in search of business opportunities. In October, he took over an enamelware factory located in Zablocie, near Kraków. Prior to the Nazi occupation, the factory had been owned by a Jew named Natan Wurzel. Schindler also acquired a housewares shop that sold the factory’s products, which had originally belonged to another Jew, Julius Wiener. Due to wartime restrictions, the production of pots and pans was prohibited because of metal shortages. Schindler's factory, the ”Deutsche Emailwarenfabrik” (DEF), produced enamel tableware and cutlery, which he sold to the Wehrmacht. Using leftover metals, he also manufactured pots and pans that were sold on the black market. Jewish workers were employed in Schindler’s factory, and over the course of the war, he saved more than 1,200 Jews. Schindler used his connections and bribes to Nazi officials to prevent the deportation of his workers to death camps. When mass deportations began, Schindler compiled a list—”Schindler’s List”—containing the names of the workers he claimed were essential to the war effort, thus sparing them from extermination. In his factory in Brünnlitz, Czechoslovakia, he provided his workers with food, medical care, and protection until the end of the war. Height: 23 cm. Rust marks on the edge of the handle and spout; minor flaw to the lower rim.