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Oral history interview with Edith Millman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.43 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0043

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    Oral history interview with Edith Millman

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Edith Millman (née Greifinger), born in 1924 in Bielsko (Bielitz), Poland, describes her father, who was an executive for Standard Oil Company; her family moving in 1937 to Warsaw, Poland; being injured during the bombardment of the city in September 1939 when bombs hit the building in which they lived; the persecution of Jews beginning immediately after the occupation; the horrendous conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto, into which they were forced to move in November 1940; her studies in small, clandestine groups organized by teachers in the ghetto; working at the Schultz factory until the end of 1942 when she escaped from the ghetto; getting forged papers from gentiles and passing as an Aryan; working as a translator for the German railroad; stealing railroad identification cards, food stamps, and coal in order to help others; her fear of being discovered and her close escapes; speaking German and pretending to be an ethnic German, which helped her to throw off blackmailers; losing many relatives; being liberated by the Russians in August 1944; studying medicine in Lublin, Poland, and in Marburg an der Lahn, Germany; going to the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY in December 1947 on a B'nai B'rith Hillel scholarship; and her parents arriving in the US in 1949.
    Interviewee
    Dr. Edith Millman
    Date
    interview:  1981 October 01
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    4 sound cassettes (60 min.).

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Millman, Edith, 1924-
    Corporate Name
    B'nai B'rith

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive conducted the interview with Edith Millman in Philadelphia, Pa., on October 1, 1981. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from Gratz College on September 22, 1998.
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    2023-11-16 08:36:10
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