Ludmile Page: A Brief Biography

In Kishinev, Romania on July 1920 Ludmile Page was born. She was taken to Poland when she was one year old by her father along with her mom. Both her mom and dad were doctors and her dad was a polished Jew. Her childhood was full of love and attention but when she was fourteen years old her father died of an illness, the death of Ludmile’s father hurt her deeply and became closer to her mom. After she graduated high school in 1957 her mom wanted her to study medicine in Vienna, so she went and learned how to speak German more fluently. She was there in Vienna until march 1938 when the Germans occupied it. During that time it was Easter vacation and her and her friend were supposed to go back home and never come back, during their trip home …show more content…
On November of 1939 she had a patient to take care of downstairs of her house, then there was a ring at the doorbell and it was 3 Germans 2 in black uniforms and one German officer and they said that they were arrested and told them to put all their valuables in a table and to put some warm clothes on because they were leaving. Ludmile wasn't on the list but she went because she wanted to be with her mother. When they got there they saw about 700 Jews and kept them there for a few hours and then loaded them in trains. Ludmile and her mother were taken to Krakow. Ludmile was forced to live in the Krakow ghetto and her mom was sent to the Warsaw ghetto. She worked in a factory at the plazos labor camp for a businessman who was a friend of the German industrialist Oskar Schindler. On October 1944, Schindler attempted to save some Jewish workers by relocating them to the munitions factory in Bruennlitz in the Sudetenland. She was one of those people to be relocated. Ludmile and about 300 other women were detained in auschwitz before reaching