Where did Golda Meir grow up and live?

📍615 Walnut Street, Milwaukee, WI 53212, USA

1906 – 1912

“I came to Milwaukee from Kyiv in 1906, eight years old, to a flat above my father's little grocery on Walnut Street, on the immigrant North Side. My mother ran the shop and would leave me minding the counter when I should have been at school — I hated being late, and I never forgot the sting of being poor. But it was here, in this crowded, striving Jewish quarter, that I found my voice: at eleven I organised my first public meeting, to buy schoolbooks for children whose families could not afford them. Milwaukee gave me my English, my schooling, and my first taste of speaking up for others. The girl who minded that Walnut Street store grew into the woman who would help build, and one day lead, a nation.”

👍 LovedThe kibbutz and the physical work of building something from nothing. Tel Aviv's pioneer energy — the sense of a city and a nation inventing themselves simultaneously. The Labour Zionist movement's combination of idealism and practicality.

👎 DislikedThe Yom Kippur War, which I felt responsible for despite the eventual military success. The exhaustion of a lifetime of public service with very little private life. The smoking habit that I could never give up.

Map showing where Golda Meir lived — 615 Walnut Street, Milwaukee, WI 53212, USA

🗺️ Approximate location today

Satellite view of Golda Meir's home at 615 Walnut Street, Milwaukee, WI 53212, USA

Sources: Encyclopedia of Milwaukee: emke.uwm.edu — Wikipedia: Golda Meir