Ida Milgrom

Ida Petrovna Milgrom (1908 – 2002) helped to lead an international campaign to free her son, Soviet dissident and former Deputy Prime Minister of Israel Natan Sharansky.

[1] After her daughter-in-law was permitted to leave the Soviet Union, she continued her "nine-year battle,"[2] working from within the USSR, along with her older son Leonid.

[2] Born in 1908 in Balta, Ukraine, Ida Petrovna Milgrom was a promising pianist who "attended the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory for a time.

"[1] "Struck by the extraordinary music coming" from a fellow student playing, "she decided that the piano was not for her" and, at Odesa Polytechnic Institute Milgrom "trained as an engineer-economist.

"[3] Leonid described his mother as "a wise woman who taught her children to treat people with kindness.