Nina Muller.
1928 – 2019
Nina Muller (née Guttman) was born on April 20, 1928, in Łódź, Poland. She survived the Łódź Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and a series of labor camps before being liberated in 1945. She immigrated to Israel in 1948.
She trained as a nurse and rose to become head nurse at the hospital in Nahariya, a position she held until retiring in 1993. She studied sociology at the University of Haifa and raised two boys alone after her husband was killed in 1962. She was a mother of two sons, a grandmother of six, and were she still alive, a great-grandmother of six.
Nina was an amateur archaeologist, a woman with a close circle of loyal friends, and someone who loved learning and traveling throughout her life. She walked many kilometers through her beloved Tel Aviv well into her eighties.
For fifty years she kept silent about what she had endured. In 1999, after an encounter with Holocaust denial in the United States, she sat down with the USC Shoah Foundation in her apartment in Tel Aviv and, for the first time, spoke at length about what she had survived. She died in Israel in 2019.
This site and the accompanying book were prepared by her grandson, Gabriel Muller.