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- Eisen, Millie
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1 audio cassette (45 min.)
1 folder of textual records
1 photograph
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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.
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File consists of a transcript and an audio cassette of an oral history interview with Millie Eisen conducted by Charles Roland in Grayslake, Illinois on June 10, 1985.
Topics cover: Eisen’s early life in Vilno, Poland before the war; life working in Warsaw ghetto hospitals during the war; conditions in the hospitals; the typhus epidemic in the ghetto and the experience of being quarantined; relocation with the hospital to the Leszno street; living conditions in Leszno and the persecution and murder of Warsaw Jews in the ghetto; experience of getting typhoid fever in the ghetto; escaping from the ghetto before the burning of the ghetto on April 17, 1943 and the Warsaw ghetto uprising; discussions about Dr. Fenigstein and Dr. Marek Balin; life after the war.
Also contained is a portrait of Eisen taken at time of the interview.
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