In 1962, she received a BA from Barnard College, a MA in 1963, and a doctorate from Stanford University in modern German history in 1971.
[1] Milton was vice president of the Independent Commission of Experts, which examined Swiss policies toward the Nazis and Jews during the Holocaust.
Milton herself studied the relationship between Swiss banks and Jewish assets held by the Nazis such as artworks and precious metals.
[1] Milton died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at age 59, on October 16, 2000, at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
The prize of $1,000 is awarded in odd numbered years to the author of the best book on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust in any academic field.