Comments on: Happy Birthday Milly Abrahams!

By: Elaine

Elaine — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 07:22:05 +0000

100 years! What an achievement. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ? ? Milly
Wonderful to read about the community spirit of the Jewish community supporting one another and all faiths coming together in your street. It is needed more than ever today x

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 21:44:00 +0000

Wishing Millie a very Happy Birthday.
Wonderful memories.

By: JILLIAN

JILLIAN — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 20:26:43 +0000

Congratulations Milly on your birthday, you look wonderfull. I looked up your photo in the book of Boris Bennet of you on your wedding day. You looked fabulous. Why are you not in this book? I treasure a very old photo of my late mother in law who had her photo taken by the L & J Suss studio in Whitechapel in 1912. Polly’s relatives also came over from Poland and I find it so sad that now she has passed away I cannot find out the history of her family.
Many congratulations on your birthday. Jillian.

By: Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 20:17:20 +0000

Wishing Milly a happy & healthy 100th birthday. A fascinating insight to her life and family, and wonderful to hear about such a supporting community. Milly has a lovely face, and she certainly made a beautiful bride.

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 16:42:40 +0000

Happy Birthday, Milly. Thank you for sharing your fascinating story and gorgeous photographs.

By: Renee

Renee — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 15:59:21 +0000

Happy Birthday, Milly! Thank you for sharing your memories; there certainly have been a lot of changes in the world since you were a child.

By: Cherub

Cherub — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 13:52:10 +0000

What a lovely wedding photo, Milly and David look like stars on a film set.

I love how she talks about neighbours of different faiths sitting drinking tea together – why can’t life be more like this?

My late uncle was Polish and I had no idea Krakow was part of Austria years ago so I have learned something today. He was brought up in a village outside Warsaw, but born in Łódź which at the time of his birth was in Russia. It fascinates me how boundaries are redrawn in history.

By: Adele Lester

Adele Lester — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 12:56:51 +0000

Wonderful! Happy Birthday Milly – to 120.

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 12:08:17 +0000

How wonderful to have these stories plus amazing/fragile photographs.
What a legacy! Happy Birthday, Milly. You inspire me.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 11:54:45 +0000

My mother, then known as Betty Lazarus (eldest daughter of John and Kitty Lazarus, nee Kaufman) was also born in 1921 and would have been 100 this year. Like Milly, she went to the Jewish Free School leaving at 14 to become a machinist. I wonder if there is a connection – were they perhaps in the same class?