Born: Liepaja, Latvia Sarah, born Sarah Gamper, was one of four
children born to a Jewish family in the Baltic port city of
Liepaja. Her parents owned a general store there. At the
outbreak of World War I, Sarah was studying piano at a
conservatory in Russia. During World War I, she remained there
to serve as a nurse. She returned to Liepaja, and after marrying
Herman Judelowitz in 1920, settled there. 1933-39: Sarah and
Herman operated a shoe store in the front of their small shoe
workshop. By 1935 they had three daughters, Fanny, Jenny and
Liebele. Sarah and Herman were Zionists and they often helped
collect money for Jewish settlers to buy land in Palestine.
1940-43: In June 1941 the Germans reached Latvia and occupied
Liepaja. That July, Herman was murdered by the Germans in a
nearby village. For two years, Sarah and her daughters managed
to avoid deportation because Fanny had protected status as a
nurse. But in October 1943 they were deported to Kaiserwald,
near Riga. On arriving, the deportees were divi