When we had dinner earlier with Magda and Dalibor one of the topics we discussed was the Jews who were sent to concentration camps from all over what was then Czechoslavakia which was the first non-German country occupied by the Germans. We then discussed the Steven Spielberg movie "Schindlers List" and Magda and Dalibor were surprised when I told them that the Australian author Thomas Kenneally wrote the book "Schindlers Ark" which the movie was based on. And we were just as surprised when Dalibor told us that Oskar Schindler was born in the town of Svitavy (known as Zwittau in German) where he grew up and that one of the factories which employed the Jews he saved from the gas chambers was not far from there in the town of Brnënec (known as Brünnlitz in
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