Emilie is often referenced in testimonies of survivors in connection with the arrival of the transport from Golleschau in January 1945. The Golleschau camp was a satellite of Auschwitz on the border with today's Czech Republic, where Jewish prisoners worked in the local cement plants. The camp was disbanded due to the Red Army's advance in January, and most of the prisoners were taken on forced marches or by train to Sachsenhausen or Flossenbürg. A group of ninety-six prisoners was handed over to Brnenec.
The testimony of Leopold Page describes their arrival, and also highlights the different roles of Emilie Schindler, Oskar Schindler and the Jews themselves.
Leopold "Poldek" Pfefferberg was born in 1913 in Kraków. He gained a master's degree in philosophy and physical education from the Jagiellonian University. He was a high-school teacher in Kraków and Podgórze until 1939. After the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, he joined the Polish Army as an officer and took part in the defense of Poland against the invasion. After sneaking back to Kraków, he was imprisoned along with the rest of the area's Jews, in the Kraków Ghetto. In 1941 he married Ludmila "Mila" Lewison, with whom he later had two children. After the war, the Pfefferbergs first settled in Budapest, then in Munich where Leopold organized a school for refugee children. In 1948, he emigrated to the United States, where he used the name Leopold Page. He inspired the Australian writer Thomas Keneally to write the novel Schindler's Ark, which in turn was the basis for Steven Spielberg's film "Schindler's List."