March 11, 2026

Contact Rick Kyte at 608-796-3704 or rlkyte@viterbo.edu

LA CROSSE, Wis. – Holocaust survivor and author of the book Into No Man’s Land: A Historical Memoir Irene Miller will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 26 in the Viterbo University Fine Arts Center Main Theatre.

In Into No Man’s Land: A Historical Memoir, Miller shares her harrowing, years-long story of survival as she and her family tries to escape the horrors of the Holocaust—from fleeing Warsaw at the approach of the German invaders, to sleeping outside in a frozen field in the no man’s land between the German and Soviet armies, to life in a Siberian labor camp, followed by battling malaria and slowly starving on a diet of boiled grass or onions in an impoverished village in modern-day Uzbekistan, to eight years spent in orphanages. Despite the circumstances, the book is a story of courage, determination, perseverance and the power of the human spirit.

Following the war, Miller emigrated to Israel in 1950 and the U.S. in 1954. She is a retired health care executive who has held positions as a hospital administrator, planner, developer, and administrator of the first federally qualified HMO in Michigan, Group Health Plan for Southeastern Michigan. She is a volunteer educator and speaker for the Detroit Institute of Arts, a courts mediator, and serves on the Board of Directors of the American Jewish Committee, the oldest civil rights organization in the U.S.

This presentation is free and open to the public. No tickets are necessary, but seating is limited. This event is being held in conjunction with Viterbo’s annual Teaching the Holocaust Educators’ Workshop. Miller will also speak to local middle and high school students the next day.

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