Edith Goldstein was born in Berlin on April 23, 1894. She was one of the first women to study medicine and receive a doctorate. She began practicing medicine in Halberstadt in the early 1920s. She took care of working class families, especially the women. Edith Goldstein was close to the SPD (Social Democratic political party) and in 1921 she was one of the founders of the Halberstadt chapter of the Workers’ Samaritan Foundation welfare organization, where she was very active as an instructor.  In 1932 Edith Goldstein married Rudolf Martin, a non-Jewish tax official. Due to the marriage, he lost his civil service job in 1937, and in 1938, Edith Goldstein lost her license to practice medicine under the ban on Jewish doctors. She still continued to treat Jewish patients and took care of the residents at the Jewish senior citizens’ home. The couple’s attempts to emigrate failed. After Edith Goldstein’s mother Elise had been deported to Theresienstadt in August 1942 and her sister Gerda (Goldstein) Werner deported to Auschwitz in April 1943, on December 16, 1943, in their apartment on Westendorf No. 13/14, Edith Goldstein and Rudolf Martin took their own lives with poison.