Edith Millman Post-WWII: A Testament from Survival to Success After the Holocaust

Edith went from her small study groups, organized by teachers in the ghetto to working at the Schultz factory until the end of 1942 when she escaped from Warsaw. She received forged papers from gentiles and passed as an Aryan with her fluent, accent-less German. Edith worked as a translator for the German railroad and stole railroad identification cards, food stamps, and coal in order to help others, including her mother and father. She always feared of being discovered and had many close escapes, but always seemed to find a way to survive. Speaking German and pretending to be an ethnic German helped her to throw off blackmailers. She was liberated by the Russians in August 1944 and furthered her education by studying medicine in Lublin, Poland, and in Marburg an der Lahn, Germany. After receiving both a bachelors and a master's degree she went to the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY in December 1947 on a B'nai B'rith Hillel scholarship where she met her husband—Irving Millman (a microbiologist who helped develop a cure for Hepatitis B) and her parents arrived in the US in 1949. 

Edith and Irving had two children Diane Millman of Washington and Steven Millman of Boston, and five grandchildren. Her daughter Diane is a high-profile lawyer in Washington state, and her son Steven Millman is a psychology professor at the University of Massachusetts-Boston.