• Born in 1936 in Zamosc, Poland.
• Father built a flour mill in a nearby town, Tomaszow-Lubelski.
• Her family was in this town when the war broke out in Poland on September 1, 1939. She was three and a half when this happened.
• At the time, Hitler and Stalin had a non-aggression pact so Judy’s family started to move eastward, trying to avoid the war.
• They eventually ended up in Ukraine
• Judy, together with her parents and sister were exiled to Siberia, because they requested passage to return to Poland. They were in Siberia for two and a half years.
• Judy’s father was a bookkeeper for a lumber factory in Siberia and he used his position to request transfer to more western parts of Russia.
• They ended up in the Uzbek republic.
• When the war was over in 1945, Judy and her family returned to Poland, but there was nothing left for them in Poland.
• They ended up in DP camps run by the Sochnut (Jewish Agency) in Germany.
• In 1951, Judy came with her family to the United States and settled in Chicago
• Judy has written vignettes about her Holocaust experiences, published in a book “And Life is Changed Forever”.

Zamosc, Poland

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0021_0_21390.html

Tomaszow-Lubelski

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0020_0_19937.html

Hitler and Stalin -- non-aggression pact

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact

Jews escape to Siberia

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005470

DP Camps

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/dptoc.html

December DPs

Displaced Persons - Yad Vashem

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/

http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%206273.pdf