Aleksandra Berlowicz-May was born on July 14, 1932 in Warsaw. Before the war, she lived with her parents on Zamenhofa Street, in the center of the northern Jewish quarter. The family was assimilated, her father was a doctor, her mother did not work. Before the war she attended a Jewish public school but for a year only. After the outbreak of the WWII and September campaign in 1939, her father was released from a prisoner-of-war camp and returned home when the ghetto was already being established in Warsaw. Aleksandra and her parents lived in the Warsaw ghetto from the beginning of its establishment, where they were helped by a Polish policeman, Mr. Nowinski, an old friend of her father's. Before the deportation actions from the ghetto, the Berlowicz family hid in their home, behind closets, then in basements. During the great liquidation action in July 1942, Aleksandra watched as people were herded down Zamenhofa Street to the Umschlagplatz. During the winter of 1942, the family continued to hide in the ruins of the ghetto. They left the ghetto before the uprising in March 1943, on a wagon together with Polish workers who worked in the ghetto. Mr. Nowinski rescued the Berlowicz family again and helped them move to the "Aryan side." During the ghetto uprising, the Berlowiczes moved from hiding place to hiding place several times. After the Warsaw Rising, they were deported with other Varsovians to a camp in Pruszkow. They survived until the end of the war in a village near Warsaw. Immediately after the end of the war, they returned to Praga Warsaw's district, where her father immediately reported for work and Aleksandra returned to school. Aleksandra became a doctor - a pediatric ophthalmologist. She has two children - a daughter and a son. Her son also became a doctor-surgeon.