In the years 1937–1939, at 4 Lipowa Street, three Jewish entrepreneurs operated a factory by the name of ‘Pierwsza Małopolska Fabryka Naczyń Emaliowanych i Wyrobów Blaszanych “Rekord” Spółka z o.o.’ ('First Małopolska Enamelware and Tinware "Record" Factory LLC'). The outbreak of the Second World War and the entrance of German troops into Kraków (September 6, 1939) radically changed the situation for the city and its inhabitants. In November 1939, Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi Party and agent of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, took control of the board of trustees of the bankrupt ‘Rekord’ company in Zabłoć. In 1940, Schindler bought the factory buildings. He also renamed the factory to DeutscheEmailwarenfabrik – DEF. The plant manufactured enamelware, and the armament division produced mess tins for the Wehrmacht and shells for artillery and aerial munitions. Schindler expanded the plant, transforming the factory halls and the administrative building from the Lipowa Street side. In 1944, he began the construction of a new factory hall for armaments production. Initially, the hired workers were mostly Polish, then Jewish from the Kraków ghetto and the prisoners of the Plaszow forced labour camp. A sub-camp of the Plaszow camp was created for them in 1943 on the plot of land purchased by Schindler on Zabłocie Street. Workers at the factory and at three neighbouring companies producing for the German army were quartered in the barracks on Zabłocie street. As the Red Army approached Krakow in the autumn of 1944, Oskar Schindler decided to evacuate the armaments factory and its workers to Brünnlitz in the Czech Republic, to a sub-camp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp.700 men and 300 women were transported from KL Plaszow to Brünnlitz. Thanks to this, they were saved.