Judy Weissenberg Cohen was born in Debrecen, Hungary, on September 17, 1928. After the war, she lived in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp in Germany. She immigrated to Montreal in 1948, where she first worked in the garment industry, and then in an office and in public relations. She married her husband, Sidney, in 1961 and raised two children. Judy is an active speaker and Holocaust and human rights educator, and in 2001 she founded the website ?Women and the Holocaust,? which collects testimony, literature and scholarly material exploring the unique experiences of women in the Holocaust. Judy Cohen lives in Toronto.