Marion Ein Lewin

Marion Ein Lewin was born in the Netherlands to parents who were driven from their home in Germany in 1935 by Nazi antisemitism and violence. Marion, her parents and twin brother Stephen remained together throughout the Holocaust—one of only a very few families to do so. They survived the transit camp Westerbork, the horrific concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, and a perilous journey on the “lost train” in the last days of the war. The family was liberated by Soviet soldiers on April 23, 1945. Arriving in the U.S. in 1947, Marion went on to graduate from Barnard College and Columbia University. Her professional life focused on health policy and health economics. For 15 years, she was Senior Staff Officer at the Institute of Medicine at the National Academies of Science and headed its Office of Health Policy Programs and Fellowships. Read more about Mrs. Lewin’s Holocaust experiences in Faris Cassell, Inseparable: The Hess Twins’ Holocaust Journey through Bergen-Belsen to America (Regnery History, 2023).