- She was the youngest child of nine children to a Polish Jewish family in Krakow, Poland.
- She survived the Holocaust in Poland during World War II. She was interred at Plaszow Labour Camp outside Krakow; Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland; Wloclawek (Leslau in German); Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen in Germany.
- She married British army liberator, Norman Turgel, six months after her liberation from the camps.
- She lives in London, England with her three children and eight grandchildren. She also have three great-grandchildren.
- She was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2000 Queen's Honours List for her services to the Holocaust Foundation.
- Her wedding dress made of parachute silk is now at the Imperial War Museum in London. She cared for Anne Frank in a hospital at Bergen-Belsen.
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