Eisen, Millie

Eisen was born in Vilno, Poland, on December 17, 1908. She finished high school in 1932 and accepted nursing training in a school called Dolsz. After moving from Vilno to Warsaw, she worked as a nurse in hospitals in Czyste. She took her State Board Examination in 1938 and then worked as a full-fledged nurse in hospitals in the Warsaw ghettos until the mass deportations began in 1943. She managed to escape from the ghetto and worked with a church from 1943 to 1945. She got married at 48 years old and moved to New York.