Judy Weissenberg Cohen was born in Debrecen, Hungary, in 1928. During the Nazi occupation, she was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and other concentration camps and forced labour camps. After the war, Judy lived in a displaced persons camp in Germany with her surviving siblings. Judy immigrated to Canada in 1948 and settled in Montreal and then Toronto. Judy Cohen is the author of A Cry in Unison.