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Summary: Ludviga Pukas (Ukraine) was a domestic who came to work for a Jewish high school teacher - a woman who had three children. When the Germans occupied their town in July 1941, the home in which they were all living was burned to the ground. The teacher had to go and apply for new identity documents. She decided to register her children as the children of Ludviga knowing, that as a Jew, she and her children would be in danger. Ludviga was given as new apartment (the authorities believed she was a single mother who had lost her home), and everyone moved in together. However, before long, the neighbours noticed the teacher living there and suspected she was Jewish. The teacher left her children with Ludviga and moved to a local ghetto which was liquidated soon after that. The teacher was taken away. After the liquidation, police came to search Ludviga's place and turned in upside down looking for Jews. The children were never discovered and remained safe. After the war, Ludviga contacted several aunts of the young girls, but the girls refused to leave their beloved housekeeper who had really become their mother. This is a simple story but could be a really powerful one about the ability of one person to make such a massive difference in the lives of some young people. It would be told from the perspective of one of the hidden children. |
